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The industry-funded, Sustrans-managed cycling-to-school pilot project is spreading its wings thanks to more cash from the Bike Hub levy scheme. Most UK bike companies and bike retailers pay into this scheme. The most notable exception is Halfords, which is expected to announce improved interim profits tomorrow.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has ordered a recall of three models of 3G’s Chopper’s thanks to breaches of Australian safety standards. 3G’s Gary Silva responds to BikeBiz.com. David Priestley, editor of Oz mag Bicycle Industry News, believes the recall could be the start of an official backlash against non-standard bicycles.

The 10 000+ names include Phil Liggett, Chris Hoy, Theo Bos, the Deputy Leader of the House of Commons, Bradley Wiggins, the president of the American Track Racing Association, race organiser Alan Rushton, BMXer Geth Shooter, the president of the biggest bicycle manufacturer in the world, and editors of international cycle magazines. In reaction to the petition, the UCI has released a statement that raises more questions than it answers…

Velo-City, the cycle advocacy conference, takes place every two years. In 2005, it’s to be held in Dublin, May 31st-3rd June. The most prominent speaker is Jacques Barrot, the recently appointed EU Commissioner for Transport. Fittingly, he’s a cyclist.

30 consultants, professors, GPs and lecturers have written to the British Medical Association urging the body to reconsider its October 2004 position on cycle helmet compulsion for all adult and child cyclists. 16 PhDs have also signed the letter. The BMA’s compulsion position – a reversal of a previously pro-helmet, anti-compulsion stance – was reached following a submission from just one named A&E consultant.

Forget traffic-free cycle-paths, Home Zones and considerate motorists, US researchers find trees are the bees knees at getting more people cycling. The degree to which city people walk or ride bicycles for their daily transportation needs depends largely on how much green space there is, says a study in the current American Journal of Health Promotion.

Hey? The Dieringer Group of New York reports that web-to-store shopping is stronger than business-to-consumer e-commerce. Still hey? More people research online what they’re going to buy at bricks-and-mortar stores than shop online.

Once 2000+ have signed, the petition will be presented to the British Medical Association. If you have yet to do so, you can sign the petition here…

BikeBiz.com is pro-helmet, anti-compulsion. Here’s an index of the stories carried to date on Martlew’s private members’ bill ‘protective headgear for young cyclists’ as well as post-bill helmet compulsion articles, including the BMA helmet u-turn…

BikeBiz.com is pro-helmet, anti-compulsion. Here’s an up-to-date index of the stories carried on Martlew’s private members’ bill ‘protective headgear for young cyclists’ and the post-Martrew period, including the Nov. 04 BMA call for helmet compulsion for all adult and child cyclists.

Many cyclists report being ‘nude’ without their polystyrene prophylactics and this must be music to the ears of suppliers and retailers who sell cycle helmets but if legislation was enacted that forced cyclists – under-16s first, but the Bicycle Helmet Inititiative Trust wants compulsion for all – to don head protection would this fill bike trade tills or would the scaring away of non-enthusiast cyclists lead to a smaller market?

That’s one of the statistical findings in the latest Retail Data Capture Analysis Report by Jay Townley for the National Bicycle Dealers’ Association of America. A PDF of the full report can be downloaded within. As usual, the RDC report is packed with info, market trends, mainstream financial websites to go pore over as well as bike-trade specific statistics.