Potholes and Road Apples

The bitter north wind that blew through Saturday’s Kirkwood Road Race made the event unpleasant at best. The 20-plus mph wind slowed riders in the last two miles of the seven-mile circuit as they climbed into a headwind. And the wind was frigid for spectators and riders waiting to depart, as they huddled behind tents, […]

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None of the categories closed out, but advance registration ended Thursday night with 454 riders slated to race in Saturday’s Kirkwood Road Race.
With a last-minute rush of registrations for the Pro 1/2/3 race, that came the closest to filling, with 88 riders registered for the race with a field limit of 90. A full squad […]

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The first stage of the three-race Tour de Ephrata will be held in southern Lebanon County next month after the West Earl Township supervisors rejected an application to hold it in their area.
The Jackson Road Race will be on a five-mile circuit near Myerstown on Saturday, April 26.
The course replaces the Farmersville Challenge course, that started and […]

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The Green Mountain Cyclery, an Ephrata bicycle shop, is undergoing a major expansion.
Green Mountain owner Mike Farrington is anxiously awaiting the arrival this week of concrete contractors who will pour the foundation for the expanded store. 
 Last, week a demolition crew removed one section of the building as the $300,000 project quickly progresses to an expected mid-June completion. The shop, […]

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Lancaster County native Floyd Landis will have to wait more than two months for a ruling from the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Landis, of Farmersville, now living in California, won the 2006 Tour de France but was stripped of the title last year after arbiters concluded there was evidence of artificial testosterone in a urine […]

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A second Category 4/5 men’s race has been added to the schedule for this Saturday’s Kirkwood Road Race to meet demand.
The first Cat 4/5 race, with a field limit of 75 riders, was full last week before the second race was added to the end of the schedule. This morning, there were 73 riders registered for […]

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After a two-year hiatus, the Leola-based Spinner Cycling Team is reviving the SoYoCo Circuit Race.
The race will be Saturday, April 19, at the Chanceford Township Maintenance Building in Brogue, Southern York County. Race registration was recently placed on BikeReg. Online registration is available until Thursday, April 17.
The course for the race is a 2.5-mile rolling […]

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London’s mayor is hoping to make England’s capital city a bicycle utopia. Along with the city’s much-publicized $50 daily “congestion charge” for motorists who drive the most polluting vehicles, Mayor Ken Livingstone has proposed building a dozen bicycle “superhighways” that would link the city suburbs with commercial areas.
It is expected to take a decade to build the […]

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A Maytown woman was handed a 3-6 year sentence Monday for striking and killing a bicyclist while driving drunk last year.
Denise Hall, 50, who also has a residence in Florida, struck Michael Blankenbiller while he was riding on the right shoulder of Harrisburg Pike, in Manheim Township, near the Park City Center shopping mall at about […]

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The Turkey Hill Dairy Country Classic returns with running and cycling races and other events for the whole family on Saturday, May 3.
The ninth-annual event is scheduled to have three cycling races in the morning. The first is for professionals and category 1/2/3 riders. The second is for category 3/4 riders. The third is for masters racers age 40+. […]

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