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Yesterday's Bike Fest in the Square attracted 15 000 people to a sun-drenched, car-free, cycle-friendly section of London's Trafalgar Square. But, what picture did BBC.co.uk use to illustrate the story? The same pic it dredges up for nearly all of its cycling stories, a dated, depressing, frightening image of a face-masked cycle commuter being chased by a juggernaut.

Throw enough mud and some of it will stick. Perhaps that's the motivation behind the constant anti-Armstrong sniping from journalist David Walsh? He's spent five years trying to prove doping claims against Lance Armstrong and he never lets a cycling article go by without referencing the allegations, obliquely or otherwise. Now, he's co-authored a book which dredges up all sorts of "secrets" about the Tour de France champion

Team Persil BMX will be nurturing riders in time for the entry of BMX in the Beijing Olympics in 2008. The team's star rider is 15-year old Shanaze Reade who competes against 16-year old boys and has won the European Championships four times in a row. Team Persil BMX is equipped with Trek bikes.

But despite bravely demonstrating his two-wheel credentials, the bicycle-riding PM was given a "kicking" in the polls.