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Scott Montgomery, the company's VP of marketing and son of Cannondale founder Joe Montgomery, has been fired. Two other execs also got their marching orders. PLUS: Cannondale's full press release.

Kieran Murphy, with Reece for 24 years, is to join the Concept and Acorn boards of directors in November. He will be responsible for IBD business in both companies.

New figures released by the UK Department of Transport show that cyclist casualties dropped by 11 percent in 2002. The same set of figures reveal that cycle use in the UK rose 5.5 percent between 1993 and 2001. Organisations such as Sustrans believe this to be an understatement.

The latest edition of Ethical Consumer magazine rates the manufacturers of seventeen of the world's top bicycle brands across a range of corporate responsibility issues. They don't come out smelling of roses, especially those from Bangladesh...

Ingersoll-Rand has appointed Steve Down, a lock exec, to the new role of 'director, business development, portable security'. He will be based at an Ingersoll Rand office in Indiana as well as spending time at Kryptonite's Massachusetts HQ. He hails, originally, from the south east of England.