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As part of the 2003 European Cycle Messenger Championships, the London Bicycle Messenger Association has organised On a Wheel and a Prayer: Images and Objects from London Bike Messenger Culture. The championships - the second that London has hosted - will be held at the Lee Valley Cycle Circuit, the Whitsun Bank holiday weekend of 24th-26th May.

Cyclingnews.com, the Oz-based roadie news-and-features website (which, incidentally, keeps former MBUK dep ed John Stevenson in gainful employment), has launched a "fun and challenging online experience of being a professional cycling team manager." And Procycling.com has released a very similar fantasy game.

Micro company Howies, the bike/skate t-shirt-to-jeans producer of Wales, is being threatened with legal action by Levi Strauss Inc. Howies is seeking the loan of a photocopier to print off a load of protest letters and press releases. Not that it'll be needed: this story has been picked up by news sites all around the world and Howies is getting the kind of press coverage it would take a behemoth like Levi Strauss to afford!

The £499 Guess RB1 from SuperCycles of Nottingham got best-of-test in a Cycling Plus review and won the Best Value Road Bike award in the recent British Bicycle Awards. So, wonders Mike Poyzer, why does SuperCycles have such trouble getting bike shops to stock the thing?

Glasgow City Council has paid for 27 showings of a 30-second advert from the Scottish Cycling Development Project that portrays cycling to work as the modern, healthy, fast way to commute.