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But it's not a volte face from Haymarket or David Hyde, the show that's moving is Retail Interiors

The Talking Spokes LED from Hyena Games Ltd mentioned on this site in February 2000 is now ready to be taken to market. The inventor - he's also the company chairman - is seeking to sell the patent protected product or licence it to a manufacturer

Yoshizo Shimano, CEO of Shimano Corporation, shocked nobody when his keynote speech at the Taiwanese trade show - 'The Present and Future of the Bicycle Industry: Where we are today, and where do we go from here' - majored on anything but the mountain bike. The industry, he said, had to concentrate on 'adding value' rather than price-cutting

Those IBDs invited to join have all said yes. But now we need a load of IBDs to put themselves forward too.

On the first day of the Taipei cycle show the winners of the 6th International Bicycle Design Competition were anounced. But where was the commercial reality?