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Sustrans is offering free initial consultations to enable businesses throughout the UK to determine the viability of providing links into the National Cycle Network for staff and customers. The businesses Sustrans has in mind are generally those with hundreds of employees but there would be nothing stopping IBDs and smaller cycle supply companies from plugging in to the Sustrans business programme

Interbike 2002 will be a three-day not a four-day show as it loses a Wednesday but gains earlier opening times for VIP visitors

Ron's wife, May, died last week and a funeral service was held in the same Harrogate church as Ron Kitching's's funeral service, the church they got married in in 1939. Now details have emerged of a memorial service for both Ron and May.

Raleigh is to unveil its new corporate look, and restyled bikes, on Valentine's Day at the first of four road shows in February. BikeBiz sneaks a preview of the new logo and comes away impressed

Cancer Research UK, the world's largest independent cancer research charity, officially launched on Monday following the merger of Imperial Cancer Research Fund and The Cancer Research Campaign, is to be recipient of cash raised by participants in this year's Bike2Work events