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The Register is UK-based but one of the world's leading IT news-sites. It has carried three of our Segway stories to date, but the latest one features Shimano's Smover concept too...

Before Christmas, Raleigh's remaining staff clocked off for the last time at the Lenton factory. Today, they started at the former furniture factory in Eastwood, ten miles away. And what film was showing after midnight last night? 'Saturday night and Sunday morning', the 1960s film that was based on the drinking and womanising of a fictitious Raleigh worker

Air tickets have been bought so that Dave Mirra, the world's best-known BMXer, can fly to the UK and take part in the Haro tour later this month. However, Ryan Nyquist has pulled out. You'll see why when you click in to this story

'You and Yours' is the daily consumer rights programme on Radio Four. It's on at 12.04-1.00pm today. CTC director Kevin Mayne was interviewed for the programme yesterday. Call in with your bikey points of view

Bicycles are still the best 'short-range personal transportation devices' you can buy yet the mainstream media still seems to think Segways are more sexy. Could electric bikes and ultralight electric motorbikes plug the gap? BikeBiz.co.uk talks to one of the first Segway owners in the world. Phillip Torrone is your archetypal early adopter (he had 'come and feel' parties when the first i-macs and PC phones came out) and loves his Segway, but he says it's ease of transportation he's after so could he be converted to an electric bike? Or how about the world's first 'intelligent' bike, equipped with Shimano's Smover computer controlled gears and suspension?