Potholes and Road Apples

The Tahoe Daily Tribune coverage on Tuesday’s stage two of the week-long Tour of California includes references to two local cyclists.
http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/article/20070220/SPORTS/102200056
County native Floyd Landis, now living in California, was spotted in Sacramento watching the stage finish won by Argentinian sprinter Juan Jose Haedo.
Floyd, who won last year’s inaugural Tour of California, has been traveling with […]

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If you needed any surer sign of spring, check: http://www.bikereg.com/events/register.asp?eventid=3785
That is the online registration site for the Strasburg road race. Registration opened on Wednesday for the first local race of the new season. By Monday morning, when I looked, both the Cat 5 field and the Cat 5 waiting list were already full. On Tuesday morning, the Elite men and professional categories […]

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 The Spanish-based Cyclingpost.com website on Wednesday published a bizarre report, http://www.cyclingpost.com/rider/article_004276.shtml, that Lancaster’s own Floyd Landis and his former team captain, Lance Armstrong, will participate as a team in an anti-doping program “to prove that cycling is possible without doping.”
The Tour de France winners, Landis and Armstrong, and presumably other riders, would have their blood and urine […]

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This article first appeared in the Lancaster New Era, Tuesday, Feb. 13:
Bicyclist Floyd Landis will be doing a tour this summer, but it will not be the Tour de France.
Landis is writing a book about his upbringing in Farmersville, winning last year’s Tour — the world’s most prestigious bicycle race — and about the charges […]

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Trail Care Crew sets spring schedule
According to Cyclingnews.com, the International Mountain Biking Association will be sending one of its Trail Care Crews to the area in June.
A crew will be at Hopewell Furnace, across the Lancaster County line, in Elverson, Berks County, June 20-24.
According to a release from IMBA, the 11-year-old program includes two full-time, professional teams […]

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Thankfully, Floyd is seizing the moment.
He will be speaking at a Floyd Fairness Fund event in San Francisco next Sunday - the same day as the start of the Tour of California.
With all the attention being paid to cycling in California at that moment, he will be impossible to ignore - despite the best efforts […]

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OK, so I know I’m being petty and I understand their reasoning, but I still think it’s lousy.
I picked up a copy of Velonews yesterday.(It was the only copy at Teck’s on Chestnut Street. What else am I going to do when it’s 12 degrees and I’m sick of wearing layers and I’m stuck in […]

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