Potholes and Road Apples

The first Lancaster-based team to participate in the Race Across America is preparing for its departure in preparation for the start of the epic cross-country race on June 7.
Team Cycle Smart RAAM, an outgrowth of Lancaster-based Dream Ride Projects, is a mixed-four person team - two men and two women - who will start in Oceanside, […]

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Kerry Werner Jr., a 17-year-old member of the local Shirk’s Racing Presented by Trek Bikes team, has been named as member of USA Cycling’s junior mountain bike cross-country team, it was announced this morning.
Werner, of Birdsboro, Berks County, received an automatic nomination to the national team after his victory at the Greenbrier Challenge on April […]

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A gang of young males pushed a Lancaster man off his bicycle, roughed him up, and then robbed him on East Fulton Street on Monday, Memorial Day, the Lancaster New Era reported.
According to Lancaster City police, the 33-year-old victim had several injuries,  including scrapes  and abrasions to both elbows, soreness to the face, and a […]

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Lancaster County native Floyd Landis was expected to begin a six-day, 480-mile bicycle ride from Washington, D.C. to Charlotte, N.C. today in support of wounded military veterans.
The Road 2 Recovery ride was slated to begin at 10:30 a.m. with a send-off by U.S. Sen. John Kerry, a bicyclist and Vietnam War veteran, from the Walter […]

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On Wednesday, bicyclists in 17 countries, participating in 263 rides, will honor fellow cyclists who have been killed or injured on the roads.
 The Ride of Silence will be a rolling wake and protest, in which riders are asked not to exceed 12 mph or speak. There is no brochure, no sponsors, no registration fees and […]

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Three months after Washington, D.C. became the first American city to launch its own European-style bike sharing program, Philadelphia is also considering an initiative that make racks of bicycles readily available on the city’s streets.
According to an Associated Press report today, bicycle activists in Philadelphia, with possible corporate backing, is pushing city officials to establish a bike-share program. […]

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Articles in the Lancaster New Era and Intelligencer Journal this week highlighted sales increases at local bike shops tied to rising gasoline prices.
Tom Podlesny, owner of the Cycle Circle shop, at 131 N. Plum St., Lancaster, said his bike sales have been booming in the past two months. About 25 percent of the bikes he […]

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The Lancaster County County Planning Commission’s four-year-old bicycle travel map has been revised, updated and is now available.
The map, now on tear-resistant paper and with numbered bicycle shops, is available for $4 each at visitors centers, bicycle shops and at the  planning commission offices in Lancaster County Courthouse, 50 N. Duke St., or on the […]

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The Lancaster County Parks Department will celebrate National Trails Day with a bicycle tour of the Conewago Recreation Trail on Sunday, June 1, from 1-3 p.m.
Ranger Darren Weimer will guide bicyclists on a two and one-half mile stretch of the trail from Route 230, northwest of Elizabethtown to Route 743. The tour is free and […]

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A local bicycling advocacy group is unveiling an expanded program this weekend that aims to teach as many children and adults as possible to cycle smart.
Cycle Smart, a program of Dream Ride Projects, hopes to teach children to ride their bicycles and to ride comfortably, even in traffic.
Skills taught in monthly bicycle derbies, in an area of […]

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