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In a story last month, Singletrackworld.com was cocker-hoop it had overtaken Bikemagic.com in the number of forum messages posted. Bikemagic countered that it was still the biggest cycle site in the eyes of Hitwise, an independent site-popularity ratings service. But now, according to Hitwise, Singletrack has overtaken Bikemagic and is now the biggest cycling website in the UK. On top of that, Singletrack is also well up there in the mainstream news sites category, sometimes beating mammoth sites such as RadioTimes.com...

Cycling loses two yet-to-be-announced track disciplines as Olympic sports, but gains BMX.

And unlike the British-made Lumicycle system, Fireball, by start-up company Pinnacle Adventure Equipment Ltd. will be available to the trade. The £215 system can be tailored to length of ride and MTB blast/commute by the addition of a twenty quid bulb pack.

Instead, the Dutch retail services organisation is to concentrate its efforts on Germany and Belgium. Stephen Thomas, Profile's UK sales director, will not be renewing his monthly management contract with Euretco. He said: "They'll be back, and when they do come back they'll be stronger."

What, a mainstream British newspaper taking the world's biggest annual sporting event seriously? In Wimbledon week? With Beckham still in the headlines? Yep, believe it. Of course, the special supplement in today's paper was preceded by two articles about 'special supplements' of another kind in The Sunday Times. David Walsh, yet again, raised doubts about the drug-free status of Lance Armstrong and bête noire Paul Kimmage was also given extensive newspaper real estate...