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Three of the riders that helped Lance Armstrong to his record-breaking sixth win in the Tour de France this year will be part of the US Postal team that competes in the Tour of Britain stage road race, starting 1st September.

The owner of Dawes and Falcon is making cash offers for the entire issued share capital of Casket plc and Kingsley and Forester Group plc, both closely related antecedents of Tandem. The Tandem Group does not contribute to the market-expanding Bike Hub levy scheme, a lapse recently criticised by transport minister, Dr. Kim Howells.

Nicole Cooke's father was arrested by Greek police in Athens earlier today. He was nabbed while spray-painting his daughter's name on one of the roads to be used in tomorrow's women's road race at the Olympics...

If this site goes a bit screwey later today it's not your machine gone haywire or anything to do with Friday 13th. We're changing servers and until the changeover is complete, the trade-only bulletin board will be disabled and some bonkers things may happen with the fonts and links. Archive stuff will still be readable, but expect news updates and BikeBizBible directory changes to be down until Monday. UPDATE: the move went smoothly, all is now back to normal (we think).

Nominations are being sought for three board positions. Skills required? "Experience of business and professional life," as well as "good judgement, vision, integrity and a capacity to contribute to the governance of the organisation in a positive and creative way."