Potholes and Road Apples

Before signing copies of his book, “Positively False,” at the Lancaster Barnes & Noble this evening, Tour de France winner and Lancaster County native Floyd Landis is spending the day in Montgomery County.
Landis was slated to lead a noon bicycle ride in Souderton, beginning at the Landis Supermarket, to mark the 10th anniversary of the […]

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Late Thursday, Mike Ridgeway, Dream Ride director, sent revised results from Saturday’s Longest Day ride. The earlier post has been edited to reflect the revisions.

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Five bicycle riders stretched the clock well beyond the usual 24 hours on Saturday, during Dream Ride Project’s “Longest Day.”
The riders, comprising one three-man team and two solo riders, rode 402.5 miles. The course is a combination of all of the Dream Rides done consecutively, beginning with the 178-mile Nightmare Tour.
Doug Levy was the first finisher, […]

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In addition to Floyd Landis’ book, “Positively False,” and David Walsh’s anti-doping book, “Lance to Landis,” here are three other summer reads on cycling:
*”Ascent: The mountains of the Tour de France,”  by British author Richard Yates, is a history of the fabled race with a focus on the agonizing climbs and maddeningly fast descents in the Alps […]

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They’re gone.
Tickets to the “Ride with Floyd” bicycle ride and picnic on Sunday afternoon are sold out. The last of the 100 tickets were sold by the Green Mountain Cyclery bike shop at about 4 p.m. Tuesday, owner Mike Farrington said this morning.
The 20-mile ride with last year’s Tour de France winner Floyd Landis is […]

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Tour de France winner Floyd Landis is returning to Lancaster County next weekend and this time he’s taking the time to ride his bike.
Landis, as previously announced, will be at the Lancaster Barnes & Noble store, in Red Rose Commons, on Fruitville Pike, on Friday, at 7 p.m. He will be signing copies of his new […]

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A Lititz woman received a 3-10 year prison term on Wednesday for killing a bicycle commuter while driving drunk last year.
According to an Intelligencer Journal account of the sentencing, Robinette T. Olzacki had a blood alcohol level of .25 - more than three times the .08 legal limit - on Feb. 6, 2006 when she stuck […]

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After 7 days, 1 hour and 23 minutes, Lancaster bicyclist Mike Ridgeway and his TeamEndeavor reached the finish line of the Race Across America in Atlantic City, N.J., at 6:47 p.m. Tuesday.
The four-man team finished sixth of 16 in their category, with an average speed of just under 18 miles per hour over the 3043 […]

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Local bicyclist Mike Ridgeway was pedaling through Lancaster County this morning, completing the last hours and the last miles of the Race Across America.
Ridgeway is part of the four-man TeamEndeavor, which began riding June 12 in Oceanside, Calif. They were expected to check in at Time Station 54, in Georgetown, southern Lancaster County, at about […]

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Pro-Am race organizer David Butterworth is filling out the local fall racing calender with additional cyclocross races this year.
According to listings on event registration and event calender sites, Butterworth has added two cyclocross races and a swap meet to his event listings. In addition to the Wonderland Cyclocross Race, to be held in East Lampeter Community […]

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