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The Bicycle Association will be launching its website in a fortnight and this will likely store Bike Hub graphics in a multitude of downloadable formats, but until then here's some logos for suppliers and IBDs to use in promotional artwork such as letterheads, invoices, t-shirts, on-bike decals and on websites.

Madison's B2C-via-IBDs website is now available for a one-off fee rather than a monthly charge, and consumers can now elect to have goods shipped direct from Madison - but still via IBDs - to their home/work addresses instead of paying online deposits and collecting from stores. This was revealed in a letter sent to IBDs already signed up to Ultimate Pursuits

The Vermont bike company - tagline 'for riders by riders' - produces high-end downhill and freeride bikes. Manufactured in the US by Frank Wadelton (aka 'Frank the Welder') of FTW Industries, Sinister has been a frame supplier to date but is now expanding with a line-up of complete bikes.

Twenty years in the bike trade, Orbit owner and former IBD Simon Gershon of Leeds wants to move to Scotland and further his education.

The European Bicycle Manufacturers' Association - run by Cycleurope's Brian Montgomery from an office in Paris - has been owed $27k by the Shanghai Bicycle Corp, a state-owned manufacturer, since an anti-dumping court case in 1993. No cash has yet materialised so Montgomery writes "we feel obliged to bring this matter to the attention of a wider audience." He's gunning for the CEO of the Shanghai Bicycle Corp but has wider points to make against dealing with Chinese companies in general...