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They may be experts in welding lightweight exotic steels and alloys into artforms, but many framebuilders refer to frametubes as 'gas pipes' and the craftsmanship that goes into each bike as 'plumbing'. Now there's a place on the web for this self-depracating humour: Frameforum.net launched over the Easter weekend and has already attracted professional and hobbyist framebuilders from the US, Canada, Australia, Italy and the UK.

It's unlikely, but this could depend on the fuss that gets made. Uncontroversial private members' bills sometimes go through 'on the nod', controversial ones can get talked out, officially objected to or adopted by the government by the promise of an enquiry. If Eric Martlew MP thought mandatory cycle helmets for children was a 'soft' issue, one that nobody could seriously object to, he clearly wasn't briefed very well by the Bicycle Helmet Initiative Trust.

As reported on BikeBiz,com last year, Cannondale's bike factory in Bedford, Pennsylvania, was visited by a crew from the Travel Channel. John Ratzenberger - Cliff Clavin in Cheers - is the show's presenter. The 'Made in America' series also features profiles of Harley-Davidson motorcycles, the Chevrolet Corvette and Steinway pianos. The Cannondale segment airs on Tuesday, April 20th at 9:00 p.m. on the Travel Channel in the US.

And it's a "significant" loss, says a statement from the Ohio bike and sports products supplier.

India's market-leading maker of bicycles and motorcycles - and one of the biggest bike manufacturer's in the world - has posted a 42 percent rise in Q4 profits in its motorcycle division, but warned that rising raw material prices could hurt group profit margins.