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News on the National Outdoor Welcome scheme - a series of events and initiatives starting in March 2002 - was carried on this site in September but to date only one cycle organisation and one hire outlet has jumped on board. Why?

There aren't that many UK IBDs with the advertising chutzpah of Hardisty Cycles - best-known jingle: "Home of the Mountain Bike, top of Shields Road, Byker" - but when the going's tough, the tough get going. The TV advertising splurge which starts at lunchtime today will last through to the Friday before Christmas, and is the first part of a three ad telly campaign that will run through to Spring 2002

Roadie shop Cycles Dauphin of Boxhill in Surrey is opening a coffee shop and top-end road bike display showroom this weekend

KIS, the Gloucestershire BSX race series created by Graham Foote of the British Dirt Riders Association has been suspended due to NIMBYs who weren’t too keen on Bicycle Supercross events in their neck of the woods. In a valedictory speech on his KIS website - where archive stories on past events are located in the Kistory hyperlink - Foote thanked a number of high-end bike suppliers who helped make the events possible

According to Moore Large MD Nigel Moore, the Derby-based company is undertaking a structural overhaul in order to "remain competitive in a changing world of cycle and accessory distribution in the UK". It has been a "difficult year" and the company overhaul includes four job losses