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Hot Wheels has been appointed the UK distributor for the Kustom Kruiser line of beach cruisers. The brand is owned by Pacific Cycle which also owns the Mongoose and GT brands already distributed in the UK by Hot Wheels.

Peter Eland's York-based, internationally-available, alternatives-in-cycling magazine has produced an eight-page guide to special needs cycles. This PDF download is a supplement to the special needs guide found in VeloVision issue 11.

Something may be being added to the translation here, but in his introduction for the route of the Tour de France in 2004, organiser Jean-Marie Leblanc refers to Lance Armstrong as 'He', the usual shorthand for God. If the Almighty One does get his sixth Yellow Jersey he may not be a deity but he would certainly be on the fast-track to bicycling beatification...

Sort of. The theft of 289 Raleigh bikes took place at Southampton docks. On the same weekend, Giant - also of Nottingham - also suffered a loss of bikes.

It's no surprise that a former Tory transport minister would be against anything started by Red Ken, but Steven Norris is chair of the National Cycling Strategy Board for England and, as has been shown by stats from Transport for London and verified by IBDs, congestion charging has given cycling in London an enormous boost.