Potholes and Road Apples

Lancaster City Council members voted Tuesday night to ban riding of bicycles on downtown sidewalks as a pedestrian safety measure.
The ban includes the area bounded by Lemon, Water, Lime and Farnum streets. It will take effect in mid-December.
The city ordinance extends an existing ban on sidewalk riding that covers the four-block area around Penn Square.
Council members narrowly […]

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Trek is taking the simplicity of a single-speed bike and simplified it further in two new models for 2009. On their District and Soho models, Trek is using a new belt-drive system.
The carbon composite belts promise a whisper-quiet ride, no rust, no grease chain-ring tattoos, no chains breaking, slipping or stretching, no lubing, and little to […]

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The forecast for Saturday’s Wonderland Cyclocross Race is cold, with a grass run-up, a sand pit and a few barriers to jump.
Lancaster’s only cyclocross race of the year begins at 10 a.m. in East Lampeter Community Park, 2320 Hobson Road. The event is being held by Christiana Cycling, the folks that brought us the Christiana Criterium […]

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Late yesterday afternoon, riding in darkness, with lights, just after 5 p.m., I felt the season’s first snowflakes on my face.
They were just flurries falling in Lititz as I pedaled home, but enough so that - at least for a moment - I saw flakes blowing on the road.
Winter, my calendar says, does not officially […]

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Don’t know what to get your cycling enthusiast for the holidays?
The Valley Preferred Cycling Center has an idea for you. The Lehigh velodrome is selling naming rights to meters around its track. For $300, you get your name, or the name of the gift recipient, professionally painted on the apron around the track. You will also […]

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The Lancaster Bicycle Club is again offering grant money to governmental and non-profit organizations to for bicycling-related projects in the coming year. The club will award as much as $25,000 in 2009 through the program.
 Eligible projects could include bicycle parking facilities at public sites, bicycle patrols, classes in proper cycling techniques and traffic rules or […]

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If you are interested in making an off-season road trip, there is a mecca for the bicycling-obsessed in the Buffalo suburb of Orchard Park, N.Y. The Pedaling History Museum has a collection of some 400 bicycles that date from a wooden velocipede of 1817 to many high-wheel ordinary bikes of the 1890s and the chain-driven “safety” […]

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Pennsylvania will be without a professional road team competing in 2009, a Cyclingnews.com post indicates.
The Wayne, Pa.-based Rite Aid Pro Cycling Team presented by Shebell & Shebell did not seek a professional UCI license for 2009, according to an official of USA Cycling, the sport’s national governing body, who was quoted in the article.
Rite Aid […]

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Andy Clarke, president of the League of American Bicyclists, made promotion of cycling in Lancaster County sound like a no-brainer … as easy as, well, riding a bicycle.
He made his case this morning before about 45 county and municipal planners, local police officers and bicycling advocates during a workshop at the Lancaster Farm & Home […]

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Lancaster City Council members next week will begin consideration of a measure that would ban the riding of bicycles and skateboards on downtown sidewalks.
A ban already exists within a one-block area centered on Penn Square, at Queen and King streets. The proposal would expand the ban to sidewalks throughout the Downtown Investment District at the […]

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