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Throw enough mud and some of it will stick. Perhaps that's the motivation behind the constant anti-Armstrong sniping from journalist David Walsh? He's spent five years trying to prove doping claims against Lance Armstrong and he never lets a cycling article go by without referencing the allegations, obliquely or otherwise. Now, he's co-authored a book which dredges up all sorts of "secrets" about the Tour de France champion

Team Persil BMX will be nurturing riders in time for the entry of BMX in the Beijing Olympics in 2008. The team's star rider is 15-year old Shanaze Reade who competes against 16-year old boys and has won the European Championships four times in a row. Team Persil BMX is equipped with Trek bikes.

But despite bravely demonstrating his two-wheel credentials, the bicycle-riding PM was given a "kicking" in the polls.

The warm weather will help with exposure of an altogether more intimate kind: today is also one of the days for the World Naked Bike Ride...although BBC.co.uk has a typo, making it the World Naked Nike Ride...

The three-venue autumn trade show - co-owned by Leisure Expo and ther Bicycle Association - has been boosted by the addition of Raleigh.