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On a visit to South Africa, BikeBiz editor Carlton Reid talked to Ellen Feibig, co-owner of bike shop start-up Femme Sportif of Cape Town. Is this the first women-specific bike shop in the world?

BBC Grandstand is broadcasting live from the World Track Championships in Bordeaux; cyclingnews.com has AS0-sanctioned WMV videos of last week's Paris-Roubaix; and Cycling.TV has teamed up with the world's governing body for cycling to launch a new broadband TV channel, UCI TV.

Mark Alker was the quickest out of the blocks. He downloaded the long Bikeforall.net banner and placed it on www.singletrackworld.com. Peter Eland of Velo Vision was a close second. The Rush was the first IBD, Madison was the first supplier and Bike Week was the first org. Join the (growing) list...

Got a website? Please download these Bikeforall.net banners and place them on your site. The industry-owned Bikeforall portal is an excellent info-and-news resource for new and 'thinking-about-it' cyclists.

Got a website? Download these Bikeforall.net banners and place them on behalf of the bike industry. It's win/win because the Bikeforall portal is an excellent info-and-news resource for your customers to get their teeth into, with no pesky adverts from fellow bike retailers...