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£2m is being pumped into Scottish forests to create twenty Coed Y Brenin-type MTB trails. And there's further grassroots facilities growth in Wales, too. The two main MTBing websites today wax lyrical about the planned MTB facilities, claiming they could inject new life into the sport

The Segway gyroscope-and-computer controlled super-scooter - the machine that's gonna do away with the out-of-date, dangerous bicycle as THE mode of intra-urban transport - is pretty much a parody of itself but the current edition of The New Yorker magazine can't resist linking the 17-mph upright vacuum with Usama Bin Laden and chums...

Not a bad start for Clive Gosling's Bikelab of Poole. The salivating customer got his hands on the only Newsboy outside of America, Gosling told bikebiz.co.uk. And Bikelab is setting out its stall early: "Bikes today are technically sophisticated, so why aren't most bikeshops?" wonders Gosling on the Bikelab website

This is thanks to the existing distribution agreement with Silverfish, and new ones with Orange and Madison

Ron Kitching died in hospital this morning. The octogenerian was one of the post-War shapers of the UK cycle trade, importing exotic bike parts from Europe, and later Japan