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Fermen Cycling, Kelmet-sale and Delin Cycles give London addresses but the postcodes are wonky and the whois records show the sites are registered to individuals in Texas, New Mexico and Illinois. One of the registrants has a Nigerian name. All three sites look identical, apart from the URLs and shop names. It's likely there are more such 419-scam shops out there, using the same template. 'Fermen' is also a name being used on eBay, in a number of variants. Buyers beware...

David Jamieson, the road safety minister announced in the committee stage of the Road Safety Bill that there will be a change in the law regarding the use of LED flashing lights on bicycles. Currently these lights - while bright and mega conspicuous - are only legal when used in conjunction with a static light.

Changing Places at 15:00 will feature how Sustrans and its 10 000 mile network "might encourage us to get out of our cars and onto our bikes."

Jeremy Hayes is the lottery-funded GB Team's first full-time BMX coach. BMX is an Olympic sport from the Beijing Olympics onwards.

Bikeland, the proposed £33m cycle-based experience centre for Derby, will not be the world's first pedal-powered theme park. No, Velo Nova of the Netherlands has not leapt off the drawing board and into reality, there's a Bavarian bicycle theme park. It opened in May 2004.