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Wisper Electric Bikes has announced the appointment of Mike Crossman as technical service manager. With nearly 20 years of cycle industry experience across a variety of positions from shop mechanic to area sales manager, Wisper sees Crossman’s appointment cementing Wisper as a brand with industry-leading customer and dealer support. David …

Cycling Weekly has appointed Simon Fellows as tech editor amid a re-structure that seeks to strengthen the 133-year-old brand’s position in the cycling media industry, across online, print and video. Fellows brings with him 35 years of experience in the journalism and publishing industries, during which time he’s written on …

Spoon Customs, known for its handmade bikes and high standards of design and finish, was commissioned by Babble to build a top-spec road bike for the epic ultra-endurance relay, All Roads Lead to Rome. Raising money for the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation. The bike has been designed and built for …

With challenging times across the industry, the team at Grinduro has decided to make an offer thanking those in the industry who’ve recently been made redundant. Despite being a small organisation, Grinduro wanted to do more to help than “just send virtual hugs”. As a result, the Grinduro team are …

The Italian Bike Festival has unveiled a new format, introducing a family ride and team registration for road and gravel events at La Gialla Cycling. The new La Gialla Cycling website is now live. Among its objectives is to promote “slow cycling” to savour the bike experience along with the …

How much input does a pro rider have in new products? Professional mountain biker Olly Wilkins explains what goes into the process – with the upcoming release of the brand new O’Dub Bars from his long-time sponsor DMR Bikes

Returning to Whittlebury Hall, this year’s COREbike will once again be a major trade event on the calendar for many distributors and dealers

In this month’s distributor update, BikeBiz catches up with Silverfish commercial director, Alex Metcalfe

Rebecca Morley looks back over the past four years as she prepares to leave her role as BikeBiz senior staff writer