Potholes and Road Apples

Warwick Township Police in reported recently that a bicyclist suffered a broken arm when he was struck by a hit-and-run motorist just outside Lititz Borough earlier this month.
According to a police report published in the Lititz Record-Express newspaper, the driver of a red sports car failed to stop for a sign on Crosswinds Drive, at Woodcrest Avenue, at about […]

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As the Tour de France implodes for the second year in a row, American hopes may turn to a team that is not even in the race.
Jonathan Vaughters’ Team Slipstream is building for its leap from the U.S. continental ranks to the Pro Tour next year. According to articles published on Cyclingnews and Velonews, Vaughters […]

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City officials unveiled more than 10,600 rental bicycles on Sunday as part of the City of Lights’ Ve’lib (ve’lo, for bicycle, and liberte’, for freedom) program, according to the New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/16/world/europe/16paris.html.
Another 10,000 of the hefty, gray bikes are slated to be available to Parisians and tourists by the end of the year. Organizers hope […]

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Rich Ruoff, of Red Rose Races, has a new link on his website that allows viewers to pre-ride the course of the Robert Fulton Road Race from the seat in front of their computers.
The link is at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E2a9yH5sjw
The race is on Saturday morning at Peach Bottom, in southern Lancaster County. It is also the Senior […]

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The “Buy Fresh, Buy Local” program is being launched this month with a series of activities. One of the first is a bicycle ride on Sunday morning, July 22.
The ride leaves the Landis Valley Museum, 2451 Kissel Hill Road, at Kissell Hill Road and Oregon Pike,and ends at the Hopewell Farm Center for Education and […]

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A 16-year-old New Holland boy was struck and killed by a sports utility vehicle while he was riding his bicycle on Hahnstown Road at about 10:30 p.m. Friday, Ephrata police reported.
According to the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, Curtis Martin was the last of five friends riding single-file on the narrow road when he was struck by […]

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Floyd Landis came home for the weekend and felt the love.
Last summer’s Tour de France winner brought a line of 500 people to the Barnes & Noble store in Red Rose Commons, on Fruitville Pike, on Friday where he signed copies of his new autobiography “Positively False.”
On Saturday, he attended the wedding of his sister Priscilla […]

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