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Built-to-order products delivered via the internet will be commonplace before this decade is out. Shoes, jeans, computers (think Dell), and furniture will all be made to order with the slightest peccadillo being catered for. Oh, and most top-end bikes will be made this way too.

SUPPLIERS: If you want to join the 52 advertisers in the BikeBiz pre-show issue, you've got to be quick...

In a press release we were faxed last week but which was embargoed until today, Brian Montgomery, president of COLBI (the Eurowide equivalent of the Bicycle Association) and chairman of the European Bicycle Manufacturers Association, gives his reasons for his resignation

For those of you who don't check out the bulletin board (not that many of you, as it happens although most people 'browse' rather than add comments of their own) here's a press release that was posted there earlier...

As you'll see, from now on we have added pictures to this website...

In his first ever feature length interview for a trade magazine, Peter Holton of ATB Sales talks frankly to BikeBiz about the Whyte project, Marin, margins and the future for IBDs

According to the BIKEmagic website today is the day the first Whyte bike from ATB Sales will be available. BIKEmagic scoops the world once again, says Brant Richards, editor of BIKEmagic. Well, weve got a scoop of our own...our latest feature article is the first big trade interview Peter Holton of ATB Sales has ever done!

Check your bike stands: are they made of stone and have you been using them since the year dot? If so, you may have an Egyptian artifact on your hands!

BEN, the Motor and Allied Industries Benevolent fund, isn1t a small charity ­ it has a yearly income of £8.2m ­ but it doesn1t have a very high public profile, unlike many much smaller charities.

Eddie Eccleston president of the Bicycle Association has effected a management buy out of Ideal Bicycles from Concept Cycling.