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Sustrans dont just want to create new cyclists, they want to get existing ones cycling more. Manna from heaven! The more miles that get ridden the more upgrades will be needed for the nations bikes. Their latest wheeze for squeezing more miles out of people is an award scheme for distance covered

If youve got a website, heres how you can promote it cheaply offline through the pages of BicycleBusiness, and online via the links page of www.bikebiz.co.uk

Have you contacted your regional Ride the Net co-ordinator yet? If not here are their details...

This story wont apply to many BikeBiz.co.uk readers but even if it helps just one, its money in the bank for them (and David Priestley). Oz trade journo who, incidentally, was the first person to send in text for B3 provides UK exporters with Antipodean market report

In amongst all the talk about a billion for education and two billion for the NHS, it might have escaped your attention that in yesterdays budget there were some fab tax breaks for buying new IT kit or paying for websites

Or sell, sell, sell. The auction system is now online.

David Hyde has released the visitor breakdown figures from the Cycle and Leisure Show.

Gordon Fisher of Fisher Outdoor plc is gung ho about the internet fisheroutdoor.co.uk goes live on April 3rd but hes a realist too...

The Wal-mart of the web has bought a stake in www.kozmo.com, a US site which uses bicycle couriers to deliver convenience goods "to your door within an hour"

Why spend twenty quid on a trade address directory when you can access B3 the BikeBizBible - online for free. We'll also be producing a mailed-out book as well. And that'll be free too. (Prospective advertisers should read the promotional postcript at the base of this article).