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And it's to be in Brum. This is the first time the US lock manufacturer has had a European warehouse. Kryptonite's Euro distributors will order directly from the Birmingham warehouse, shortening shipping lead times.

The creator of the Body Geometry range of saddles and other contact-point P&A was at Eurobike and had some forthright views on Selle Royal's Saddle Report 2003.

As revealed by BikeBiz.com on Friday night, US pro Tyler Hamilton has left the CSC team for the Swiss Phonak team. This will be disappointing to CSC, who would have hoped to cash in on the Hamilton/Tour de France IMAX movie released next year.

As well as the Cake suspension platform, Gary Fisher bikes feature a new GF logo. There's a new IBD-specific logo for Schwinn bikes. The Brooks logo gets stamped on leather tool rolls and cast spoke-keys. And Litespeed gets an in-house wheelset.

The record for a bicycle is 49 minutes. The Segway - which needed six sets of batteries - took two and a half hours to climb New England's highest peak