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Sustrans has today published a fully updated and revised edition of its 'Official Guide to the National Cycle Network to coincide with the beginning of the school holiday season.

The Pedicab from the Seat of the Pants was chunky. The Brox looked sexy. Indian rickshaws have never caught on. Now there's a new entrant, the futuristic-looking Barbel Velotaxi

Next week sees the first real-time results of our supplier's business confidence barometer, graphed alongside the IBD barometer. But, how representative will it be? How many UK suppliers - shy creatures when it comes to facts and figures - have signed up?

The smallest of the three Wales-based contract cycle assembler/manufacturers currently has 22 staff sitting at home twiddling their thumbs because of a flurry of bailiff visits and a factory lock-out ordered by the Welsh Development Agency. Bikedirect Europe isn’t in trouble, though, claims the Kiwi co-owner, it’s an innocent party caught in the middle of a rent squabble between the WDA and Easthill Enterprises Ltd, former UK distributor of German-made Corratec bikes

Legal eagles from around the UK will be chambering on down to London's Herne Hill Velodrome on 1st September for the Hiscox Cycling Challenge. It sure makes a change from the - yawn-yawn - 40-mile sponsored bike ride. And lawyers have got a bob or two to spend on new bikes so these sort of events should be encouraged!