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Six boxes arrived at Orange's US HQ but they didn't contain juicy bikes they were loaded down with bricks. The bikes nicked include never-seen-in-the-UK adjustable-travel Patriots and a Sub-3 equipped with the brand new XTR kit so, if offered such exclusives, call the police...

It's Interbike's Outdoor Demo, a sunny Saturday day of riding for America's IBD staffers. 4000 came, saw and tested the hundreds of top-end bikes made available by suppliers, eager to get their wares sampled at the Blue Diamond village and desert recreation area, 25 miles out of Las Vegas.

The broadcast will be from Harrogate where CTC was formed. Amongst other things it will feature four photos of cyclists in the Victorian era provided by CTC. The programme comes just months before CTC's 125th anniversary.

Susan Achmatowicz is no stranger to such plaudits, earlier this year she was hailed as ‘one of Britain’s most enterprising rural women’ in Country Living magazine’s Enterprising Rural Women Awards.

16 000 paying members of the public and 2000 members of the trade. The breakdown is within...