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British bike bag maker Michaux is in the running to land valuable help growing its business - but owner Rachel Bonney needs your help.

Michaux makes lovely high-end bags and other cycling accessories, including some very clever reflective leather handlebar tape. Like any small company, it needs all the help it can get, so Rachel has entered the 'Women in Making' competition run by Style.co.uk and Triumph Lingerie, to win a business bursary and mentorship.

The help will go to the brand that achieves the most public votes.

The bursary is worth £10,000 which as anyone who runs a small business wil tell you, is not chump change. We put on our Dragon's Den heads and asked Rachel what she'd do with the money.

She said: "The funding will be spent on raising the brand image through an updated advertising campaign and website, increased participation in events, product development and renting business premises to allow for expansion."

Michaux bags are manufactured in the Lake District, hand-cut and hand-stitched in a factory that’s has been making leather goods on the same site for 300 years.

To help Michaux out, go to the competition page look for the pic above and cast your vote.

John has been writing about bikes and cycling for over 30 years since discovering that people were mug enough to pay him for it rather than expecting him to do an honest day's work.

He was heavily involved in the mountain bike boom of the late 1980s as a racer, team manager and race promoter, and that led to writing for Mountain Biking UK magazine shortly after its inception. He got the gig by phoning up the editor and telling him the magazine was rubbish and he could do better. Rather than telling him to get lost, MBUK editor Tym Manley called John’s bluff and the rest is history.

Since then he has worked on MTB Pro magazine and was editor of Maximum Mountain Bike and Australian Mountain Bike magazines, before switching to the web in 2000 to work for CyclingNews.com. Along with road.cc founder Tony Farrelly, John was on the launch team for BikeRadar.com and subsequently became editor in chief of Future Publishing’s group of cycling magazines and websites, including Cycling Plus, MBUK, What Mountain Bike and Procycling.

John has also written for Cyclist magazine, edited the BikeMagic website and was founding editor of TotalWomensCycling.com before handing over to someone far more representative of the site's main audience.

He joined road.cc in 2013. He lives in Cambridge where the lack of hills is more than made up for by the headwinds.

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WolfieSmith | 10 years ago
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Done.

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joemmo | 10 years ago
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Ahem.. nice bags they may be but they're not exactly leaping off the page compared to some of the other distractions - I mean entrants.

The cake obviously.

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