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After last week's warning about a dodgy Indonesian credit card scam, here are two further frauds to be on the look out for

Visitors to the Global Racing website can enter a competition to design the decals for next year's team bikes from Orange. 100 consumers have downloaded the 'colour me in' frame graphic so far

Stendec Shockworks of Chester has paired up with Giant UK to provide tech demos for Giant dealers

It's called VAX. "The applications for this suspension technology go far beyond bicycles: anywhere you need suspension on a single plane, without any torsion. Motorcycles and scooters are obvious additional applications," Dahon's Joshua Hon reveals exclusively to bikebiz.co.uk. Dahon is about to publish a scientific paper on VAX and will license the design to other manufacturers. How good is it? "We feel that VAX technology will, within a decade, forever change the design of bicycle frames and forks," claims Hon.

The Midlands-based Malaysian monocoque bike maker - manufacturer of EP-X and Reef carbon fibre composite framed bicycles, "Some day all bicycles will look like this" - has decided to trim its UK operation. Two out of ten staff remain.