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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

The four store Leisure Lakes chain is soon to be five strong after taking over the lease for BikeTech of Cheltenham, one of the former Caratti-run IBDs

A news story at www.bicycleretailer.com relates that Schwinn bikes are now available in Halfords. The background to this story was supplied to Bicycle Retailer by www.bikebiz.co.uk after one of their journos wondered what Halfords was

Collapsed last year along with Grip, an MTB mag, DigBMX will shortly be back in production after being acquired by Permanent Publishing of Oxfordshire

Nothing gets past BikeBiz readers. According to Shaun, a regular contributor to our bulletin board, a To Let sign recently went up on the Schwinn/GT UK Sales warehouse at Aztec West Business Park in Bristol. More changes ahead, he wondered?

Continuing our series on bicycle web portals, BikeBiz checks out a very British one, GoFar-mtb. It aims like the rest to attract a hard core of enthusiasts which, the site hopes, the bike trade will want to plug into by placing banner ads on the site. IBDs can benefit by being featured on the demo bike day database

Er, its a price cut. The interchangeable-lens sports glasses from Smith Sport Optics of America has been reduced in price by £10

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EBMAs (European Bicycle Manufacters Association) chief champion soon to be replaced at the helm Europes third biggest bike builder

Contrary to the dates given on the BicycleBusiness wallplanner (they had yet to be pinned down) Future Publishing have announced the actual dates for this summer's 'taking MBUK to the masses' events