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As well as casual togs there's a line of tech cycling-wear, some of it yellow and, just like the Nike/Armstrong livestrong wristbands, cash will make its way to the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

Rule number one when writing April Fool spoofs is to make them plausible. One of DirtRag's offerings has since been removed from its website but not before the whispers started: psst, SRAM has bought Mavic... So, just who was caught out? But why didn't DirtRag register www.marzanitou.com?

And Andy Wigmore's company is bolstered with the arrival of two new reps, Anthony Evans and Scott Belshaw.

The Register-Guard of Eugene, Oregon, Burley's home-town newspaper, reports that the trailer maker is in debt and made a loss in 2003 and looks likely to post another loss when 2004's books are finalised.

On Friday, Le Anh Tuan, deputy chairman of the Vietnam Bicycle and Motorcycle Association, said that member companies had answered twenty-three questions posed by the Canadian International Trade Tribunal regarding the anti-dumping lawsuit lodged by the Canadian Bicycle Manufacturers' Association.