BikeBiz Bicycle and cycling retail news

Get yourself and your customers on their bikes on Wednesday 21st June otherwise the Sustrans north of the Border launch party for the opening of the National Cycle Network will be a flop. No riders whatsoever have registered for some legs of the Scottish part of the Longest ride that is going great guns everywhere else in the UK

The bikes-n-carparts store is finally getting round to having an online presence. Its had a holding page for ages but, sometime soon, www.halfords.com launches on an unsuspecting world

ATB Sales is hoping itll be all Whyte on the night as Jon Whytes innovative (and already much loved by bike testing journos) full suspension XC machine is finally available in the first week of June

Lord Rogers of Riverside, chairman of the Urban Task Force, says better public transport, safer cleaner streets and urban cycle routes could improve the quality of life for millions of people

The BikeBiz roadtrip continues: yesterday in a Welsh-cum-Taiwanese bike factory, today in a roomful of 30 IBDs demanding speedy tweaks to their trade-specific EPoS software