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It's likely to be the biggest MTB movie ever. 'Roam' is shot digitally as well as 16mm tape but everything is stitched together with Apple's Final Cut Pro film editing software. The Apple website has a meaty feature on the making of the movie...

Boulder City, 25 miles southeast of Las Vegas, is home to Interbike's Outdoor Demo, a two-day bike-fest under blue skies and a red hot sun. The sleepy town was built to house the construction workers building the Hoover Dam in the 1930s. A construction project of a more controversial nature could make every one of the town's 15,000 residents into overnight millionaires...

On May 2nd, BikeBiz.com recorded its highest ever visitor numbers: 18, 613 'unique visitors' clicked through to the site. The previous highest total was 14, 577 on 14th September 2004.

Alpine Bikes, the Aberdeen-based IBD chain with five stores in Scotland has been bought by the Tiso Group, an independent outdoor retail chain based in Scotland. Two Alpine Bikes stores are already sited within Tiso Outdoor Experience stores.

Two safety reviews to be carried out because of the spiralling number of injuries happening at specially-constructed downhill MTB courses in Scotland.