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Continental Royals happily cycle among their subjects. The British Royal family has shunned such familiarity to date but, speaking today at a conference on design and health, Prince Charles praised cycling. So, will the Windsors be on two-wheels soon?

Tour de France organiser the Amaury Sport Organisation today confirmed it has awarded London the Grand Depart of the 2007 Tour de France.

The Department for Transport's 'THINK! Take longer to look for bikes' campaign starts on 30th January and is car v motorcycle but the same logic also applies to cyclists.

Haymarket pulled the plug on the Bike Show last November. Future Publishing, founder of the show and main magazine backer of the show following its acquisition by Haymarket, couldn't step in to create its own show in 2006 because of restrictive covenants in the original sale contract. Bunny-hopping this impasse the organising company behind the National Adventure Sports Show has a Spring consumer show called Bike to be held "in a prestigious centrally located venue in the Midlands in April 07."

White Bros president Tim Fry will be giving one of the tech seminars at this weekend's Core Bike show. Other seminars include a lowdown on the new carbon nano-technology from Easton's Jeff Schneider and a hands-on, all-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-the-web-but-were-afraid-to-ask seminar from Si Watts, the bike world's not-as-rich answer to Bill Gates.