On Thursday, the Cycle Show kicks off in its new home in London Docklands. Thursday is the trade day. BikeBiz.com grabs a few shots on build-up day. PLUS: the long-awaited CSC/Bjarne Riis film 'Overcoming' gets its UK premiere in the Procycling theatre at the Cycle Show, times within.

I'm bruised, battered and will not be providing a full news service this week...

Back in May, BikeBiz.com reported that the building of the Airbus 380, the rapid spread of upland wind-farms and the growth in the Chinese economy was leading to a worldwide shortage of carbon-fibre. Most top-end bikes are now made from this 'black gold'. The British boss of Pro-Lite, a Taiwan-based component company, has reported that carbon-fibre supply for next season will be reduced from October by 40 percent.

Don't try this at home, kids. "If you like your media on the go but don't like the shut-the-world-out feeling of wearing earphones, Sakar International's new family of Sound Cases will be music to your ears." But perhaps not the ears of passers-by as you pedal along blasting out your fave i-tunes... The Bicycle Sound Case works with other MP3 players as well as CD players.

And on to bikes. Oh, and buses, too. As previewed by this site yesterday, the pro-cyclist Secretary of Education (a former chair of the All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group) and the pro-cyclist Secretary of Transport (a former politico in pro-bike Edinburgh) have today jointly announced a two-year cash splurge on 'safe routes to school.'

A piece in the international news section of the Daily Telegraph blames burgeoning car use in China, and the collapse of a domestic market for bicycles, for the worldwide dumping of dirt cheap bikes

With many British cities becoming go-slow areas at peak traffic times and hotspots there will be a growing number of motorists who will ditch the car at ring roads and go the rest of the way by cycle

...because its European Car Free Day. A press conference announcing the car free day will be made this Friday by the European Commissioner for the Environment and several EU Ministers

Commuters with 30 minute drives can expect to be static for 84 hours a year. Building more roads is not the answer, says TomTom.

Make it safer for people to cycle and more people will cycle, experts tell MPs and peers at Get Britain Cycling inquiry.