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There's to be more exhibitor space (presumably not hard to do in a limitless desert!) and a Kona-sponsored Dirt Jump Demo.

The You and Yours consumer programme will feature an interview with a bike shop employee and Mark Alker, one of the editors at Singletrack magazine. Background research for the feature was conducted by You and Yours producer Geoff Bird by using the index of 'bike shortages' article on BikeBiz.com. UPDATE: summary now online...

According to the Drudge Report, Democrat presidential hopeful John Kerry made a jokey reference to the recent bicycle fall suffered by President Bush...

On last night's 'Dead Ringers' impersonisation comedy on BBC2, President Bush gave his Iraq speech from a Raleigh Chopper, from which he fell. And in the US, late-night chat-show hosts are squeezing as much mileage as possible out of the Bush-and-Kerry bicycle-borne pratfalls.

The Japanese bicycle maker is suspected of falsifying capital increases.