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In October, the place to be will be the Sands Expo & Convention Center in Las Vegas.

A fair number of top companies, that's who. It looks set to be a cracking show, with a lot of money thrown at the marketing and on the features. The trade and press preview day is on Thursday 26th September. The ACT AGM takes place on the Wednesday night within the Business Design Centre itself. NEWLY ADDED: a few extra exhibitors...

The Singletrack art expo at Towneley Hall in Lancashire is now open, but has no bike trade sponsor. The event has already been featured in The Independent on Sunday, and other newspapers and mags will run puff pieces in due course. 100 000 people are likely to attend the exhibition, many of them new to cycling.

Fuelled by Singletrack magazine's 'boozy' and carrot cakes, and riding Specialized's new and sexy Epic (the Brain bike) he completed 18 or 19 laps, he can't remember which. It was actually 17...

Trade has been lacklustre in most European countries this year, a surefire way to make buyers at the international trade shows more pessimistic than usual. But at Eurobike, Friedrichshafen, at the end of August, and IFMA Köln, this weekend just gone, the trade appeared to be buzzing, with order books full to bursting.