GARY MAIN

Gary Main has come late into the cycling photography game after being gainfully employed in the RAF for 31 years. Always a keen photographer since his teens but it has only since he left the RAF that he found that he had the time to follow his love of photographing cycling. This after seeing the Tour De France in 1994 on a corner of a high street of Whitchurch. A dodgy photo later an idea forms in his head. Moving on 20 years later and the advent of the digital camera gave him the tools to capture moments that tell a story in the moment of taking.

He started to make a name for himself after a chance conversation in his local bike shop asking about his future trip to Calpe to work with the Metaltek Kuota and was introduced to Dan Bigham who had accommodation there. During 2017 worked mainly in the summer with Metaltek and Team KGF in the road off-season. In 2018 after the demise he was commissioned by Phil Jones of Brother to cover all Brother teams without their own photographer.

In this time, it gave him the freedom to cover other teams that did not have a photographer with Gary's experience. He is a very good technical photographer but is better known for showing the person behind the helmet. A very hard-working and passionate photographer who works tirelessly to ensure every photo he takes tells a story and is a credit to the subject in his picture.

He has covered a multitude of races as diverse Worlds championships to the Melton classic and the local 10-mile time trials. His hope is that a photo of Peter Segan is just as good as a local club rider and it the person on the bike and team supporting them is the important element to any good shot.