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Or, more accurately, pro-bicycle students from Cologne, Zurich and Milan collaborated to dream up a number of bicycle products of the future. These include sports shades with integral digital camera (useful for snapping road rage motorists); a gyroscopically-stabilised unicycle; a means of fixing punctures and regulating tyre pressures on the fly; and the ultimate in bum comfort, a saddle supported not with a seatpost but an electromagnetic field.

A legal challenge by City Cyclists, the London Cycling Campaign's local group for the City, has  forced the Corporation of London to revive plans for a 20mph zone in most of the Square Mile.

The relationship between the two began when Oval Concepts, the high-end Swiss-American components company, contacted Jordan about supplying parts for the (now defunct) Jordan aero bike programme. Oval's Morgan Nicol reckons Jordan's CAD, aero-testing and carbon prototyping budget is bigger than the whole of the bike trade's top-end R&D budget...

The FTSE 100 Index’s Europe committee decided promotions and demotions from the top 250 companies in the UK at its quarterly review meeting yesterday. The recently-floated Halfords was admitted to the second-tier of listed companies.

Industry musicians will compete for bragging rights at the inaugural Battle-of-the-Bands on Wednesday, October 6th, in the Venetian Ballroom, Las Vegas. The Shimano-sponsored bash - with free beer and food - will have a sound stage provided by Fender, of electric guitar fame, and the four bands will be made up of employees of Bell Sports/Giro, DeFeet, Ochsner International and Nirve.