4 News
Pedal powered performance, off-roading for all, stolen trike recovered, a bike business for sale and more.

8 SPEZI 2011
Full report from the sixteenth Special Bikes Show in Germersheim, Germany.

16 Bikes made good
Reader Howard Yeomans describes how with an 8 Freight, a toolbox and some ingenious modifications he's delivering bike repairs for a living in Thornbury, near Bristol.

20 Review: Trisled Rotovelo
Riding the revolutionary roto-moulded velomobile from Australia: is it as tough and practical as they say?

24 Review: Jango Flik
A folding bike with designer appeal put through its paces.

27 Review: Paper Bicycle
It's a cleverly crafted comfort cruiser with a customisable chaincase; can it appeal as a do-it-all cycle?

30 Review: Dahon IOS XL
Dahon have thrown a lot of technology at this top-of-the-range commuter bike with 24" wheels: is it an effective end result?

33 Short reviews
33 Purple Sky Flags : a premium flag from the USA via Germany.
33 Books: Danny Bent's This time you've gone too far, Sir!
34 Suspension seatposts revisited : an Australian reader compares four posts.
36 The Whike , a sail-assisted recumbent trike, tested.

38 Meeting the makers
Taking a break from dealer visits, we drop in on two manufacturing operations: the Burrows Engineering workshop
near Norwich, and Inspired Cycle Engineering in Cornwall.

44 Velo-City Seville
Claude Marthaler reports on the conference in Spain, from the unlikely site of a cycling revolution.

46 Readers' bikes
46 Suspension invention : the promising TopTrail linked suspension technology.
49 From Birdy to Dahon : a German reader explains why he chose to change cycles.

52 Letters
Cycle curiosities worldwide, cycling at 80, Brompton bite back and more in our round-up of reader letters.

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