January 2019 marked 25 years of Chipps being a full-time bike journalist. Here, he pulls up some of the highlights of a quarter of a century that spans cantilever brakes to e-bikes and McRoy to Minnaar. On 4th January 1994, I walked into the Trim Street offices of Future Publishing to start my first day as a full-time bicycle journalist with MTB Pro magazine. It’s a profession I’ve been in ever since – for the last 25 years. Back then, and to a certain extent now, I didn’t have the slightest clue about what I was doing…