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 book “Positively False,” which is due to be released Tuesday.
Landis, of Farmersville, will also be the star attraction at a bicycle ride and picnic on Sunday, July 1. The ride is a fund-raising event for his Floyd Fairness Fund.
The 1 p.m. ride will start at the Ephrata Middle School, where participants will park, and, after 20 miles, riders will return to the Green Mountain Cyclery bike shop, on Reading Road, where there will be a picnic. Participation in the ride costs $20 each, which includes the picnic. Registration is limited to the first 100 people. Registration will be done on-line, at the Floyd Fairness Fund website: http://www.floydfairnessfund.org/
Good luck. The site registration on the site went live at about 11:35 a.m. and was unable to meet the demand.
Landis was last in the county three months ago for a reception and town hall meeting at the Ephrata Performing Arts Center. There was a presentation of Landis’ defense against allegations that he took synthetic testosterone to improve his performance at last summer’s Tour de France. That defense was presented to a panel of arbiters in Malibu, Calif., last month. A ruling from the arbiters may not come for another month. Landis faces being stripped of his Tour title and a two-year ban from professional bicycle racing.
