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...small ones getting smaller. Well, at least in comparison, says the Plimsoll Report, a company analysis and benchmarking service. (Read on, too, for company turnovers and the biggest bike shop in the UK).

Raleigh are asking stockists to suspend sales of three bike styles fitted with InSync forks

If youre mad keen on testing yourself to the limit (sure you are, you work in the bike trade); can cycle a bit, arent too bad a runner and can row an inflatable across a lake, why not enter a trade team into the Hi-Tec Adventure Racing Series 2000. Youll need to be joined by two fellow nutters

The rates demand that was probably waiting for you after the Christmas break was based on retail property valuations from two years ago. If your shop is in an area where the Uniform Business Rates have shot up, is it worth lodging an appeal? Rates specialist Brian Collett gives BicycleBusiness the lowdown on UBR

Shame it was the suspended Maximum Mountain Bike...