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Customers order items in store via internet kiosks and get free home delivery.

Mike Poyzer's bike shop in Nottingham will become Raleigh's flagship Cyclelife store. The transition takes place in July. Poyzer's marketing and distribution business will remain on the premises. Raleigh is leasing the store from Poyzer.

Madison gains the exclusive distributorship of the Canadian bike brand for the UK and Republic of Ireland.

Over the next five years, the US government is spending $5bn on bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure. Not five million, five billion. This stunning state of affairs is partly due to the support the US bike industry extended to the US cycle advocacy movement. Find out more at this podcast...

John Kawecki, director of operations of Giant UK Ltd, has resigned his post for family reasons. He leaves on March 31st. Ian Beasant becomes MD.