BikeBiz Bicycle and cycling retail news

Members of the Utah-based Team Sugar ride in stilettos - and pose in bikinis - in a new 2004/5 calendar. And not a WI jam jar in sight...

Doesn't time fly when you're having fun? Another year gone, time to ask bike suppliers if they'll renew their support for this site so we can continue serving up a regular diet of nourishing news for nowt. Most renewed; two companies declined (British, sadly), and two companies jump on board for the first time (American, naturally).

Kona rider Tracey Mosely has dropped out of the UK race scene because were she to win the National Championships, new UCI rules would mean she would have to wear a national jersey at all UCI events. National jerseys have precious little room for sponsor logos. IMTTO has asked the UCI to drop the 'road style' ruling.

...for their tyres. Continental, the German manufacturer, has developed a chemical solution to lower road rolling resistance. The company claims that riders Tyler Hamilton and Jan Ullrich will save 30 seconds on the mountain time trial at Alpe D’Huez on stage 16. But what's the goo like in the wet? The Tour de France continues to be plagued by rain...

John Kerry, the would-be president of the US, famously fell from his Serotta and was soon thereafter copied by Dubya, who skidded on a pretzel and face-planted. But will President Bush go the whole hog, and plug himself into OLN to watch his mate go for a sixth yellow jersey?