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Since the end of the Tour de France last year, Lance Armstrong's equipment suppliers have been working in harmony to produce winning technologies. The F-One companies - including Trek and Nike - have produced new kit but extensive testing has shown that Armstrong is happy to go retro. Armstrong's coach Chris Carmichael confirmed the switch in equipment on OLN's Road to the Tour show in the US on Thursday night.

Many outside-of-the-industry commentators seem to think so. In the business section of Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper, economics journalist Rob Carrick suggests investors in oil stocks move into two wheel retailing....

Did you know you can make your Mac, PC or PDA calendar progams sync with the trade dates supplied by BikeBiz.com? When we make a change to the dates, this is automatically updated on your machine, saving you the trouble of researching the dates, finding the show websites and keeping up-to-speed with show clashes.

Jack Oortwijn, editorial director at Bike Europe, has reached a significant milestone in his life...

Train operator GNER has today distributed a press release demonstrating how it is spending money on cycle parking facilities. Perhaps the most interesting bit of the release is the part where the numbers of bike parking spaces are listed: a big conurbation like Newcastle has just 60 spaces, yet diddy York has 420 spaces. This tells you a lot about the respective cycle friendliness of these two cities...