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Pensioners and volunteer trail-builders qualify for discounts, but all other visitors will now have to pay a £2 daily charge for parking at the popular Scottish MTB trail and 20p for parking outside the Hub in the Forest bike shop and cafe.

Bikefest in the Square will be held on Sunday 13th June and parts of the famous London square will be closed to motorised traffic and turned over to bicycles. The event is to be organised on behalf of Transport for London and has the backing of current London mayor Ken Livingstone...

The $310m all-cash deal has successfully concluded.

IBDs on the Saturday bike ride at the West Brom Fisher Outdoor Leisure show will get a post-ride rub down by either Irishman Martin Earley, winner of a stage in the 1989 Tour de France, or comeback kid Adrian Timmis, a rider for the ANC Halfords team in the 1987 Tour de France.

A survey by the Chartered Management Institute has found that the most reliable way of getting to work is by - you guessed it - bicycle. The CMI believes travel disruptions are delaying managers at a cost of more than 2 million working-hours per week, and although London's Congestion Charge has done little to ease these difficulties, managers outside London would welcome a similar scheme