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World record-breaking cyclist and Olympic gold medal winner Chris Boardman is to become marketing and promotions manager of bikeregister.com, the online logbook and electronic tagging system

Canadian bomb-proof component manufacturer RaceFace once again this year awarded a prestigious Canadian newspaper prize for their business excellence - is offering what sounds like a huge prize to a lucky rider but is in fact chickenfeed compared to the amount of coverage the trick will get

The hostile bid from shell vehicle Lakefield to take over H Young PLC, the owner of Madison, has succeeded. Today, H Young directors advised shareholders to accept the "too low" Lakefield bid because no other bids had been received

Behind Bars of Abingdon doesn't believe in cutting corners when it comes to information provision: its plain-but-packed website is currently a mine of information on how to beat the foot-and-mouth restrictions

Those nice folk at 'Cycling Plus' who were promoted to a table at Bike 2001 and, aside from the Company of Cyclists Stand, had pretty much the only display of non-MTBs at the show are to conduct a National Census of their own. For road bikes, tourers, hybrids, recumbents, and tandems.