Ashley Quinlan
Road tech lead
Ashley is BikeRadar’s road lead, heading up our road, gravel and urban bike tech coverage. A trained journalist, he has been working in the bike industry for over a decade and riding for much longer. He joined BikeRadar in 2022 as senior technical editor.
He has written for road.cc, ebiketips, RoadCyclingUK, Triathlon Plus magazine and Red Bull, plus worked in PR for some of the industry’s biggest brands, and content marketing for an emerging e-scooter company.
Ash is a road cyclist, and has completed La Marmotte Granfondo Alpes and the Étape du Tour (twice) – something of an irony, given his non-climbing stature. He’s firmly getting to grips with gravel riding too, although the road is where his heart is. One day, he’ll buy an XC mountain bike before it’s ‘too late’.
He enjoys testing products he thinks can make a tangible difference to a rider’s experience, from wheelsets to rain jackets, groupsets to tyres. Ash is always keen to share his nuanced findings in features about his tests, recognising one person’s perfect solution might be another’s worst nightmare.
In 2025, Ash is targeting his first 200km audax and hopes to give bikepacking a try.
- Height: 188cm
- Bike size: 56-58cm
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