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The parent company of Falcon, Two Wheel Trading and Dawes is doing well: in its interim statement released today, the Tandem Group reported improved figures for the first six months of 2001 over the same period last year

RoadSafe is launched today and is a "pan-industry organisation whose purpose is to reduce road accidents and promote safer driving." It has been spawned from the long-running Prince Michael Road Safety Awards. The Bicycle Association is one of the founder supporters of RoadSafe.

Klein Bicycle Corporation, owned by Trek since 1995, has announced that it will move its manufacturing operations from Chehalis, Washington to Waterloo, Wisconsin in February 2002.

The bike trade re-seller of PoS-it EPoS software collapsed late last week. The mainstream orginator of PoS-it has stepped in to support any of the 51 IBDs which were hooked up with the software by Mane.com Ltd. Meanwhile Mane's Neil Delafield is seeking to migrate Pos-it users over to Counterbalance, a new EPoS software package coded by Frank Stirling, a co-director, along with Delafield, of UK EPoS Ltd

As sales of its traditionally printed maps drop, the Ordnance Survey is trialling a map printing service from internet kiosks where users can print out just the section of mapping they need.