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Belgium-based Classified Cycling has closed a funding round of €22 million led by Active Partners, the investors behind cycling brands Rapha and Evans Cycles. Existing investor Bridford Investments Limited is continuing to support Classified by participating in the round. The company’s investors include Olympic and World Champion riders, Tom Boonen, …

Volt has today launched the new Infinity e-bike. The British e-bike brand says the bike is its ‘most advanced e-bike yet and a significant evolution of its much-loved predecessor’. Mirroring updates across the 2022 editions of Volt’s range of e-bikes, the brand says the design of the Infinity combines engineering …

The Government has approved the Trade Remedies Authority’s (TRA) recommendation that two China-based electrical bicycle and tricycle manufacturers be given new exporter status and be allowed to pay a lower import tariff rate to export their products to the UK. The new exporters, Jinhua Otmar Technology Co Limited, PRC, and …

TfL has published data from its annual Travel in London report, showing there has been a continued boom in walking and cycling. The report shows that levels of cycling continue to exceed pre-pandemic levels, with cycling in autumn 2022 40% higher than in 2019. Cycling on weekdays this autumn has …

Cycling design and creative agency Conductor has launched a new website, after celebrating a ‘record-breaking year’ for the Brighton-based firm.  Conductor, a creative agency specialising in the cycling sector, was founded in 2014 by MJ Jackson and Jonathan Davies, both with experience in branding and design.  The company offers a …

BikeBiz editor Alex Ballinger travelled to Leeds to visit the Restrap workshop, to learn how the bikepacking brand has expanded in recent years

Using a unique active polymer, Rheon Labs, based in Battersea, London, offers impact protection solutions for industries ranging from cycling to the NFL. BikeBiz visited the innovative tech company, to hear from head of technology Roman Chaika and marketing manager Ben Scott

BikeBiz catches up with Edinburgh-based distributor Hotlines, as MD Ewan Pinder looks ahead to 2023

Rebecca Morley visits Bob Elliot & Co in Lancashire to find out more about the distributor’s in-house wheel brand, KX Wheels