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There will be a plethora of seminars at Cycle 2002, the public bike show due to be kicked off with a trade and press preview day on September 26th. At Islington’s Business Design Centre there will be trade-specific presentations as well as public seminars given by the likes of Adam Hart Davies, presenter of BBC1’s Tomorrow's World, and design guru Mike Burrows.

"Environmentally-responsible transportation is becoming an ever more important issue around the world," says Dahon founder Dr. David Hon. "We're proud that our bicycles are an important part of the solution.”

The future of the Welsh International Cycling Festival has been secured with a £13 200 rural recovery grant. The award, from Adfywio cefn gwlad, a body set up by the Wales Tourist Board and Country Council for Wales, will be used to lure back two-wheeled visitors to parts of Wales devastated by foot and mouth.

“Watch out, cyclists are on the rampage on a road near you,” ran the teaser strapline in The Sunday Times from last weekend. Brian Appleyard’s piece is surprisingly rounded and, in parts, fair, but in other parts it’s downright bonkers. Tech consultant Peter Harrison believes the piece to be inflammatory and could lead motorists to deliberately harm cyclists, something Harrison knows a lot about having been at the receiving end of an unwarranted beating by a violent driving instructor…

Remember last week's vulva story? Well, we said the BMJ story about genital injuries would be picked up by the mainstream media, and used to attack cycling. True to form, Dr Thomas Stuttaford (the journo doc parodied in Private Eye every fortnight) has said racing cycling is not something he recommends...