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Jeremy Palmer, aka Stinky of Welsh wheel building specialists Cyco Bike, is marketing a citrus-based bike cleaner called Stinky's Bike Wash. Five percent of the profits from sales of the cleaner will go to the CTC

Raleigh has to move out of its Triumph Road site by 2003. Its planned move to a new factory to be built on former allotments in Bulwell, five miles north of the city centre, is being stymied by a dwindling group of disgruntled allotment holders, not happy with Nottingham city council's generous compensation package

Steve Fenton, of the grandly-styled European Cycle Development Agency, works closely with Mike Poyzer of DDG and Super Cycles of Nottingham, and the two have worked out an IBD distribution agreement for the Pazzaz components brand

In effect, Cycle Bid Co. – a new company set up to own what was once the Derby Cycle Corporation – becomes the ‘stalking horse’ to flush out any other bidders for the owner of Raleigh and ex-owner of Sturmey Archer

Visitors to the Sustrans website will soon be able to click through to high-quality maps of the National Cycle Network thanks to a £100 000, three-year deal the charity has signed with Halfords