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Mark Hooton, owner of Cymarc Engineering of Scunthorpe, has told his local newspaper he has long lobbied for the mandatory fitting of bells to bicycles, and is now hoping the law introduced on 1st May, will generate lots of orders for the bell making part of his business.

Trek's LeMond brand will use True Temper's proprietary OX Platinum air-hardening steel alloy as the 'spine' material for the multi-material LeMond frames.

The Giant-sponsored DH world champion in 2000 was arrested Tuesday after police seized 52 'high quality' sinsemilla marijuana plants from his Durango home.

The BikeBizBible is running months behind schedule. The upside? When it does finally appear it's going to more up to date than it would have been had it been published at the start of the year...

Bicycle helmet manufacturers are careful not to over-state the protective abilities of their wares. But politicians, newspaper headline writers and, it seems, police officers, appear to believe polystyrene lids are effective in the sort of smashes nothing less than Volvo-type steel roll-cages would be of use. According to the Hull Daily Mail, a cycling lollipop lady in Hull died not only because she was ran down by a cement mixer but because she wasn't wearing a bicycle helmet...