Career
His popularity gained as a CW columnist led to engagements as an after-dinner speaker at cycling events. Bell is also a serious reporter with a degree in politics who has reported on race riots, gangland contracts, drugs wars and environmental and social issues in his native Merseyside for The Independent and The Observer. He called for a single organisation to represent cyclists in the United Kingdom to avoid such tragedies recurring.
Bell was also professional cyclist.
He once held the mountains and points jerseys in the prestigious Mi-Août Bretonne. Bell lives in Chester and supplements his income as a bus driver.
He is writing an autobiography, provisionally called "Pinball", excerpts of which are on his web site.
