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Chicken & Sons will stock Crunchy bars and other good-for-you goodies, including the fruity-power Frusli bars. Zyro gets the sole distribution rights for PowerBar into the UK cycle trade (it had been sharing distribution with Chicken & Sons)

The MBUK Bikercross series is being staged by Martyn Salt's Inevent race organisation company and will take place at some key lifestyle events from March through to August.

Madison takes over from CPK Moto, the former distributor for Kryptonite’s 'powersports' products.

RockShox Inc. was in danger of collapsing after defaulting on a $4m bank loan. The fork maker was seeking immediate capitalisation of $2m, or a buyer for the complete operation. SRAM was one of two buyers interested. RockShox will now operate as a subsidiary of SRAM Corporation. PLUS: The money problems of RockShox Inc were graphically portrayed in a Feb 14th filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Extracts from this report are at the base of the article and they include details on the just settled Answer vs RockShox patent infringement court case.

Those nice chaps and chapesses at the BBC have paid sheep artist Jo Burt for some of his images to paste on the 'so extreme' part of the BBC's site. You can choose to send them as e-cards or paste them to your desktop as wallpaper