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Wilderness Trail Bikes (WTB) has joined the Saddleback family of brands. For more than 40 years, WTB has been innovating its portfolio of cycling products. From its humble beginnings, with the founders tearing down Mt Tam back in 1982 on ill-equipped cruisers, WTB now produces a range of tyres, saddles …

The BikeBiz jobs board helped filled more than 720 positions in 2023, and listings are still on the rise. Here’s our latest top five… Mechanic/Wheelbuilder – Spa Cycles Ltd Harrogate, not only where the forerunner of Cycling UK began and host to the Tour de France and World Road Championships; …

Hot on the heels of last month’s show, the organisers of COREbike are already busy working on plans for 2025. Next year, COREbike will return to Whittlebury Hall, Towcester from Sunday, February 23, to Tuesday, February 25. It will be the 20th anniversary of COREbike making it now the industry’s …

The organisers of the National Cycling Show, brought to you with V12 Retail Finance,  have promised a “bigger and better” show when it returns to the NEC in Birmingham in June. Now in its third year, the event will take place on Saturday, June 15, and Sunday, June 16. For …

A new generation of children are learning to cycle with Bikeability’s Get Cycling in Schools project. Children as young as three are learning the essential skills they need to begin cycling, using hundreds of free bikes made by UK-based kids’ bike manufacturer, Frog Bikes. Get Cycling in Schools, run by …

BikeBiz's incognito shopper visits Life Cycles, Streetlife, Bicycle Sales and Service, Mandarin Cycles and Halfords

COMMENT: The UCI says Britain is starting to realise it has a new national sport...

Mark Ireland DipFA of Barton Financial Planning shares his thoughts with BikeBiz

In a town with independents, chains, concept stores and online retailers with physical outlets, this Mystery Shopper visit was never going to be a dull one…