The official attendance figures for the Cycle 2000 show, supplied by the Business Design Centre and reported by industry news site BikeBiz, show 16,000 paying members of the public. Saturday was, unsurprisingly, the busiest day, with 6,350. Sunday was 5,230 and Friday 4,360.

That’s some way off the 30,000+ figures recorded by the NEC Bike Show in the Spring, but nonetheless a strong performance in the show’s first year. It looks very much like the answer to the problem of having one show that suits everyone is to have two…