Potholes and Road Apples

The former partners of RedRoseRaces.com are going head-to-head Saturday - each with a race of their own.
David Butterworth, the controlling partner of RedRoseRaces.com, is organizing the Deodate Road Race, near Middletown, in Dauphin County. Rich Ruoff, RedRoseRaces’ founder and former director, is organizing the Hammercreek Road Race, north of Lititz, in Lancaster County.
The prospect of competing […]

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This is a story of love, loss and restoration.
This is a story about a man and his bicycle.
Tracy Bowman, 42, had ridden bicycles since he was a child. He would drag home bikes other people put out with trash.
A dozen years ago, Bowman walked into a bike shop in Red Lion and saw a shiny […]

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In case you missed it in Tuesday’s Intelligencer Journal, there was a good article on Beijing-bound Olympic track cyclist Bobby Lea, his brother, Special Olympian Syd Lea, and their mother, Tracy Lea.
They came to the Acadia Neuro Rehabilitation Center, in the Greenfield Corporate Center, on Monday to talk about the challenges they have faced.

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The Associated Press today put raw video footage on-line of Friday’s Critical Mass ride in New York’s Times Square. In the tourist-shot video, one of the city’s finest apparently gives a passing bicyclist a big shove - off his bike and onto a sidewalk - for no apparent reason. It makes you feel appreciated for […]

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Bicycle racers came from across the mid-Atlantic and spectators came from inside their homes to the Grandview Grand Prix criterium race on Saturday. About 240 racers participated in the various categories that ranged from beginner to professional. About another 50 children competed in free kids’ races.
Spectators who saw the professional/category 1/2/3 race on Saturday afternoon got to see […]

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A bicycle commuter in Washington, D.C. intervened Wednesday morning to stop syndicated political columnist Robert Novak after Novak reported struck a pedestrian on D.C.’s K Street and then kept driving.
According to a Washington Post account, Novak was driving his black Chevrolet Corvette with the top up when he struck a homeless man crossing the street. The […]

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Lancaster’s Intelligencer-Journal this morning carried a preview article of next month’s Covered Bridge Metric Century ride. The Lancaster Bicycle Club’s recreational tour is one of the largest in the Mid-Atlantic, attracting about 3,000 riders annually.
The article, done for the 30th anniversary riding of the tour, focuses on Harold Baughman, the only rider to have done […]

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Lancaster bicyclists Steve Farrah and Joe Peko are riding across the country this summer and keeping a blog: 2geezers2oceans. They started at Oceanside, Calif. on June 5. By last week, when they made their latest post, they were in Kentucky. They are planning to finishing in New Jersey this month.

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In case you missed it in this morning’s Intelligencer-Journal, there was a good preview article on the upcoming Grandview Grand Prix criterium, being held on July 26. The race was quickly organized by local cycling enthusiasts and Grandview Heights residents Michael Doupe, Michele Bote and Jack Poplar in the weeks after the Red Rose Races collapse last month.
Registration […]

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Hey buddy, wanna buy a bike?
Lancaster City has about 170 to pick from and they will likely sell at deep discounts Saturday morning at the city’s annual auction of abandoned, lost or stolen property.
The bicycles are those that have been collected over the last year by police or other city workers. Buyers may see a bike they […]

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