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Camelbak's proprietary bite valve has been chosen as the sucking mouthpiece for NASA's latest space-suit

The ski-and-cycle products distributor has launched a consumer-facing website with a comprehensive trade-only back-end

The Xscape snowslope-cum-mall in Milton Keynes is expected to attract 6 million visitors in its first year, more than the Dome at Greenwich. The Action Bikes store on site is trading at double its target. Can other IBDs get a slice of this experiential retailing?

The ice wall built inside Tisos Outdoor Experience store in Glasgow as featured in BicycleBusiness, June has been nominated for the innovation category of the Retail Interiors Awards 2000

POPAI the international point-of-purchase trade association reckons that 75 percent of purchases are impulse buys. POP stands are therefore critical to get right. X-lite have gone to town on theirs...

Here are details of two shows which dont major on cycling but which some suppliers may wish to exhibit at anyway. The National Countryside Show and Interchange both take place in London in the Spring

Got £25 000 to spare? Then bid for 75 000 front mechs. Or buy 10 aluminium MTB frames for just £250. Many more cracking bargains were uploaded to our auction site yesterday

Never have internal hub gears been so much in the news! Around about the same time Lenark bought Sturmey, SRAM launched an anti-dumping complaint claiming Shimano was guilty of under-cutting its rivals in the European hub gear market. Shimano today issued a statement...

Bike mags are dropping like flies. 'On Your Bike'. 'Cycling Today'. Now 'Mountain Biker International' has shuffled off this mortal coil.

This is because their parent group, Finelist plc, went into administrative receivership last Friday. The stores are still open for business but their stocks of bikes wont be replenished