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Before watching the pros break away on the streets of Lancaster Sunday afternoon, you can watch the 1979 cycling classic, “Breaking Away,” in Binns Park.
The showing of the movie is free and open to the public. To add to the atmosphere, members of the CAICO professional bicycling team from Columbia, South America, ( or maybe […]

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Floyd Landis, who left Lancaster County to pursue a career in mountain bike racing, is returning to that sport Saturday in his first race since last summer’s Tour de France.
The Denver Post is reporting, http://test.denverpost.com/extremes/ci_6008997, that Landis will be going up against mountain biking legend Ned Overend and and last year’s champion Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski in […]

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Bicyclists who want to ride - and ride for a cause - are being invited to participate in The Great Green America Metric Century Bike Tour on Sunday, July 15.

 The self-guided, self-paced bicycle tour starts and ends on the grounds of Mount Hope Estates, home of the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire, north of Manheim. Rides of […]

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With the USADA hearing behind him, Floyd Landis is going to the next thing: the book.
Landis, a Lancaster County native, will be returning on June 29, to sign copies of his new book, Positively False,  http://www.amazon.com/Positively-False-Real-Story-France/dp/1416950230, at the Barnes & Noble store, in Red Rose Commons, Fruitville Pike. The event begins at 7 p.m.
The visit will […]

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Preparations are in full swing for the upcoming Tom Bamford Classic race in Lancaster, Sunday, June 3.
Viewing of the elite amatuer men’s and women’s criteriums and the professional bicycle race are free and open to the public. Spectators watch from all around the course, but many gather at the feed zone, at the Williamson area of Lancaster […]

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For each of the past five years, Mike Ridgeway has spent days and nights in late June camped out in Georgetown, in Lancaster County’s southern end, waiting for tired bicyclists to arrive.
Ridgeway, a local bicycling advocate, has manned Time Station 54, the last manned checkpoint in the Race Across America. Bicyclists pass that point in […]

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Lancaster already has a professional bicycle race that draws racers from across the world and 15,000 spectators to the city’s streets.
Next year, it could have another.
Organizers of a new cross-state race are slated to announce their plans this afternoon at a state capitol press conference.
Local race organizer Rich Ruoff, of Red Rose Races, will be […]

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The director of the Tour de France preempted the start of local bicyclist Floyd Landis’ hearing on Monday by announcing the result didn’t matter.
Christian Prudhomme told the German Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung that Landis would be stripped from the official Tour de France record books. The news was reported Saturday in the Austrialian newspaper The Age, http://www.theage.com.au/news/sport/six-riders-out-as-drug-scandal-sours-giro-ditalia/2007/05/12/1178899168734.html
Prudhomme’s announcement came three […]

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The Lancaster Bicycle Club recently awarded $15,000 in grants to expand police bike patrols and help charitable organizations promote bicycling and bike safety.
The bike club, with more than 500 members, annually distributes funds raised through its Covered Bridge Metric Century ride. The organized bicycle ride attracts more than 3,000 riders who rides of 15, 31 […]

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Tomorrow morning, friends, family members and supporters of Floyd Landis will gather for the Keep the Faith Ride, at 10 a.m., at the Petra Christian Fellowship church, on Airport Road, south of New Holland.
Landis, a Farmersville native,will not be at the 20-mile ride. He will be in his adopted home in California preparing for his […]

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