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Brompton has sponsored a cycling by train leaflet produced by ATOC, the Association of Train Operating Companies. It will be sent to all Brompton dealers soon. All well and good for folding enthusiasts but ATOC member West Anglia Great Northern a past winner of the CTCs bike friendly Cyclemark award isnt playing ball with cyclists in general.

Bike trade bods are busy packing up to attend Bike 2000 at the NEC this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. BikeBiz will be there on the Friday and will upload any juicy stories to this site ASAP

Denes Deli in Jesmond Tynesides best sandwich shop has two propped up outside and sells them as a sideline. Its the French SoleX bike/moped hybrid. And now theres a shop in London which specialises in them...

Ex-IBD and World Masters cyclo-cross champ Mick Ives has helped the CTC to make Llanwrtyd Wells the CTCs first Cycle Centre. Five more towns will get the same label within the next six months. Cycle Centres will have classic road and dirt cycle routes radiating out from them

This is the best funded of the UK bicycle portals, backed with $1.4m of seed capital. It has eschewed commerce but offers plenty of community and content. Its also got an excellent chopped-down database of 900 IBDs, many with websites for consumers to link in to.

The 485 mile West Midlands loop of the National Byway plugged by Loyd Grossman helped Midlands Electricity (MEB) walk away with the Hollis Award for the best Corporate Sponsorship programme of 1999

Its billed as the ultimate network for active outdoor sports. It has received funding of £4m (one of the last start-up sport dot.coms to benefit from venture capital over-optimism?) and it will create the UKs biggest web-based network of destination sites for active outdoor sport enthusiasts, including mountain bikers. How many portals will still be around in two years? The low-budget, non-enthusiast ones will survive, what about the big spenders?

According to a report in yesterdays Guardian, the American owner of Asda is to open four standalone Wal-Marts this year. Unlike Asda, US Wal-Marts major on non-grocery items. Wal-Mart is Americas biggest retailer of bicycles (including quality mid-market bikes from Mongoose)

The Barton on Humber company has won the annual Humberside Exporter of the Year award

In response to Clockwork's retiral from the SCU series we have decided to promote our own Downhill series throughout May and June, writes Rod from Revolution, a two-location IBD that wants to keep grass roots downhilling alive