Potholes and Road Apples

 COBYS Family Services will hold its annual charity bicycle ride on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 9, beginning at 1 p.m., at the Lititz Church of the Brethren, 300 W. Orange St., Lititz.
The 10- and 25-mile bicycle rides, are combined with two other events - a three-mile hike and a 60-mile motorcycle ride - in an event […]

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There will be a charity bicycle ride on Saturday to benefit the Corner of Hope, a clothing bank in Leola.
The ride - actually two rides, of either 10 or 23 miles in length - leave from the Corner of Hope, 52 W. Main St., Leola, at the rear of the Upper Leacock Fire Company building. The […]

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Floyd Landis will be coming East next weekend to compete in the Shenandoah Mountain 100, near Harrisonburg, Virginia, in the George Washington National Forest, Cyclingnews.com reported today.
The race follows Landis’ taking second in the Leadville Trail 100 a few weeks ago and mountain bike races in the Teva Mountain Games earlier this summer. Cyclingnews notes […]

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Local bike shop Shirk’s is getting some attention from the largest bicycling magazine in the world.
“Bicycling,” which includes regular short articles on bike shops, has a short on Luke Shirk’s shop on pages 34 and 35 of the October edition. (I pulled mine out of the mailbox Thursday.)
Luke Shirk himself was apparently unwilling to talk […]

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The Valley Preferred Cycling Center, formerly the Lehigh Valley Velodrome, will wrap up its season with the Madison Cup competition Friday night.
This will be the 31st annual Madison, which is a competition involving two-man teams taking turns in the lengthy race and literally hurling each other forward as they pass off the racing responsibility. The name for that […]

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Despite Sunday’s rain a record 3,305 riders participated in the annual Covered Bridge Metric Century ride.
The number of riders on the 15-,30- and 62-mile rides exceeded the 3,285 rider record of last year.
“If it would have been sunny, we would have had 3,500. We were prepared for 3,500,” organizer Ed Gower of the Lancaster Bicycle […]

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The weather Saturday should be perfect for Dream Ride Project’s ride of attrition, the annual Nightmare Tour of Lancaster County. The ride circles the 177.8-mile peripheryof the county, beginning in Marietta at dawn.
The temperatures are expected to be unseasonably mild, with a high in the upper 70s, low humidity and now chance of rain, the Millersville University […]

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With the Christiana and Deodate races over, the 2007 local road racing season is essentially over. Thoughts turn to chilly days of autumn, and, to cyclocross.
A quick check of upcoming cross races, at http://www.bikereg.com/events/?et=2&rg=2, shows 11 events this fall in the Mid-Atlantic region, between New York and Virginia. Three of those races are here in Lancaster […]

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The Conewago Trail, a five-mile stretch of former rail bed from Route 230 near Elizabethtown to the Lebanon County line, is due to officially reopen on Saturday, Sept. 1.
The trail, http://www.co.lancaster.pa.us/parks/cwp/view.asp?a=676&q=518283&parksNav=|7871|, is Lancaster County’s oldest linear park. It has been under reconstruction since April. The $541,000 project added a base of stone, to drain water from […]

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Red Rose Races organizer Rich Ruoff has posted this weekend’s race courses on YouTube.
Ruoff’s http://redroseraces.com/ has links to Saturday’s 8.6-mile Tour de Christiana road course and Sunday’s 10.3-mile time trial course. Anyone interested in getting a peek at the course can do so from their computer.
Unfortunately for procrastinators, online registration closed Thursday. Interested riders can still register […]

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