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The board of Spoon Customs brand owner, Spoon Group Ltd, has announced that it will pause production of its custom carbon road racing frame, Vars Disc. The company, led by Andy Carr, has cited “a perfect storm” of parts and supply chain issues experienced last year and the resultant delays …

The June edition of BikeBiz is now live. Read the digital edition online here. Never miss an issue, subscribe to BikeBiz for free here. Well, spring didn’t quite offer the basking sunshine we were hoping for (neither literally or figuratively). After an extremely challenging few months for the bike trade, …

This piece first appeared in the May edition of BikeBiz magazine – get your free subscription here Classified enters mountain bike market with Powershift Boost hub Belgian drivetrain technology company Classified Cycling has announced the launch of a mountain bike-specific Powershift hub system. The new mountain bike product, the Powershift Boost …

The Bicycle Association (BA) has published its latest in a series of BA Guides To: The BA Guide to Cycle Security and Tackling Theft. The BA Guides are a series of concise documents aiming to offer definitive information on matters of interest to the UK cycle industry. This comprehensive guide …

A new Cycle to Work scheme provider Gogeta has officially launched, offering the ‘lowest commission in the industry’.  Gogeta, previously known as Velomatch, founded by Barry Scott with the aim of improving the salary sacrifice scheme for all parties, will be offering 4% commission to its bike shop partners, with …

Steve Edgell, Cycle Solutions managing director and chairman of the C2W Alliance, looks to build some bridges between the IBD and the Cycle to Work Scheme

Hero Cycles has released a new range of bikes under its recently-launched Insync brand. BikeBiz spoke to CEO Sreeram Venkateswaran and brand ambassador and three-time world BMX champion Shanaze Reade to find out more

BikeBiz catches up with Tony Moff, co-founder of Jersey-based IBD Big Maggy’s

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