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Rider and promo man Paul Hinton is among the six to have been made redundant this week.

London Mayor Ken Livingstone announced today that recorded cycle journeys on London's key roads have doubled in the last five years from 59 000 in 2000 to 119 000 this year. This exceeds the current target to increase the levels of cycling by at least 80 percent over 2000 levels by 2010. There are now 650 000 Londoners who regularly cycle as part of a daily routine

ICLEI is the global association of cities, towns and regions for sustainable development. Velo Mondial is the international version of Europe's VeloCity bicycle planning conference, to be staged in South Africa next year.

Cough £150 and you become an award sponsor, with naming rights on STW's website, a logo in the mag write-up, two tickets to the bash and a logo etched on to the glass plaques handed to the award winners. A bike company can't sponsor the 'bike of the year' award but everything else is up for grabs.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has ordered a recall of three models of 3G's Chopper's thanks to breaches of Australian safety standards. 3G's Gary Silva responds to BikeBiz.com. David Priestley, editor of Oz mag Bicycle Industry News, believes the recall could be the start of an official backlash against non-standard bicycles.