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BikeBiz.com has been following the progress of this fuel cell since 2000. It won't be powering cars any time soon, but could be made commercially viable for bicycle propulsion. But don't think rocket-fuel, think eco-friendly emissions: water vapour.

Brompton was famously left in the lurch when Sturmey Archer went pop in 2000. SRAM went out of its way to help, producing a Brompton-specific hub. However, to reduce its reliance on one supplier, Brompton is now speccing bikes with internal hubs from SRAM and Sunrace Sturmey Archer. From January 1st, all Brompton three-speed bikes will use the new Sunrace Sturmey Archer 3-speed hub and Brompton 6-speed bikes will use the SRAM-Sachs 3-speed hub.

And in reverse order, the winner is.... Er, all of them. CW readers nominated, and voted for, so many different bike shops that the award in the mag's end-of-year awards issue went to "local bike shops everywhere."

"A number of companies have decided to go their own way in 2005 and it would be ridiculous to try to run any kind of major event without sufficient response," said Leisure Expo's David Hyde, a 16-year veteran of staging Brit bike trade shows. A 'year out' could be the answer to the 'problem' of a multitude of competing hotel shows, said Hyde.

Thanks to all those who took the time to add their names to the online petition requesting the BMA evaluate ALL the evidence in the cycle helmet compulsion debate, and not just the data supplied by the Bicycle Helmet Initiative Trust, key parts of which used injury and death statistics not found in official, traceable sources.