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The Segway Human Transporter - a hi-tech scooter - was unveiled to a waiting world on Monday. "Is that it?" asked one of the presenters of ABC TV's Good Morning America. The disappointment could be cut with a knife. Why? Because this invention is the one hyped since January as "bigger than the internet". Long before its unveiling, Apple's Steve Jobs was reported to have said cities of the future would be redesigned around this contraption, now seen to be of possible value to porky US postal workers but too dorky for everyone else...

According to www.singletrackworld.com, Endura cycle shorts star in the first of the three Harry Potter movies. Mind you, they're well hidden...

Sustrans has announced that it has reached its target and completed its lottery funded project to build 6000 miles of cycle paths. Sustrans said it will continue to expand the National Cycle Network and will complete 10 000 miles by 2005

Damian 'Foss' Forster, owner of Off Beat Bikes in Fort William, has been instrumental in bringing a UCI sanctioned DH event to Scotland for June 2002. He's got a hill to climb though: there's the small matter of raising £250 000...

Both the Cycle & Leisure Show (NEC) and the Bicycle Association’s International Cycle Convention (Harrogate) want IBDs and corporate buyers to flock to their shows. Will one show win out, or because of the spread of exhibitors, will visitors have to attend both shows to get the full picture?