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Love Your Bike, a poster and movie campaign to get Manchester’s car commuters to take to bicycles won first prize at the Green Awards held at London's Guildhall on Wednesday night. Beware, the viral video within is risque...with bells on

Modelled on Frostbike in the US – the winter trade show from QBP for IBDs – Madison's Icebike will be held February 27th to March 1st. The event will be staged in a stonking great marquee taking up almost the whole of the Madison HQ car-park in Milton Keynes

The next edition of BikeBiz mag will major on two sectors of the business: customisation and lubrication. If your company produces lubes and wash fluids, get in touch ASAP. Ditto for those companies which produce customised clothing and water bottles for clubs and teams.

Graeme Obree is the star attraction at the next Revolution track event, to be staged on December 9th at Manchester Velodrome. Obree will bring a specially built replica of 'Old Faithful' his own-built bike that was ridden by Jonny Lee Miller in the making of the biopic ‘The Flying Scotsman’.

The 'Interbike killer' is no more. At least not until 2008. Maybe. There was an underwhelming reaction from the US bike industry when the Friedrichshafen-owned Eurobike show said it wanted to stage a September trade show in Portland, Oregon. However, announcing the suspension Eurobike has said it was "various US bicycle leaders" who wanted the German show to bloody Interbike's nose.