David Hinchliffe Bradford
David Hinchliffe Bradford
Writer & editor
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David Hinchliffe Bradford has been writing and editing professionally for more than 20 years.
He’s senior editor at Cycling Weekly and his work has featured in the Guardian, the Times, the Independent, the Irish Times, Vice and more. A keen amateur athlete, David has a marathon best of 2hr 28min. Away from sport, he writes personal essays exploring vision loss, social history, nature and place. His essay 'Undertow' was published in the 2024 anthology Going to Ground (Little Toller).
Recent work
Recent work
On five years on
On five years on
May 2025
Trying to remember when the world ended, or didn't
Trying to remember when the world ended, or didn't
Straight-faced silence: Is there an omerta on sexuality in the men's pro peloton?
Straight-faced silence: Is there an omerta on sexuality in the men's pro peloton?
April 2025
Despite growing LGBTQ+ visibility in other sports, representation in male pro cycling remains entirely absent. David Bradford speaks to British racers and asks, why the stubborn silence?
Undertow
Undertow
"This is the scene that would infuse itself into my blood. Does everyone have one, a landscape that enters deep and never fades, a default for the mind’s eye, header image of the inner homepage? Perhaps it’s a privilege of the rooted. Perhaps it’s our curse."
David's essay 'Undertow' appears in the 2024 anthology Going to Ground (Little Toller).
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