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The US bikes-to-sports-equipment corporation has announced a net loss of $11.8m the fourth quarter of 2003 compared to a loss of $4.2m in the fourth quarter of 2002. Changes are to be made to the corporation's corporate structure and there are to be job losses.

Bike from China. Psychic from Reading-via-Israel. Helmet from Co. Durham. Press release from France. Story uploaded during BikeBiz.com editor's ski holiday in Vermont, USA. Uri Geller's press agency, based in Normandy, has forwarded the Uribike press release. Read this in conjunction with the story posted last week...

2003 was a banner year, one of the hottest and driest for the last four centuries. European bicycle dealers did a storming trade but according to SAZbike, the German trade magazine, the sales lift didn't go as stratospheric as the mercury...

The second annual British Bicycle Awards are being presented on Friday 16th April 2004 at Haymarket's The Bike Show, NEC, Birmingham. Three finalists have been shortlisted in 16 categories. The shortlist was drawn up by British Cycling, BikeBiz.com and magazine's MBUK, What Mountain Bike, Cycling Plus, and Ride. No nomination for the Scott Genius, though...

The 34-year old climber - plagued by doping scandals at the end of his career, which had included a Tour de France overall victory - was found dead on Saturday. Most sources believe he had taken his own life.