Potholes and Road Apples

Velonews legal writer Bob Mionske, in his latest posting, calls on us all to make a modest step to improve their health and the health of the planet by resolving to take at least a few short trips within a mile of home on foot or by bicycle.
“Nearly half of all trips in the United States […]

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A Washington, D.C. bike advocacy organization is urging people to ride into the nation’s capital next month and is offering free bicycle parking to do so.
The Washington Area Bicyclist Association plans to offer two valet bicycle parking stations on January 20. Volunteers will watch over bicycles while people attend the inauguration festivities for incoming President Barack Obama, the […]

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The Allentown Morning Call published this short Q & A with professional cyclists Bobby Lea on Christmas Eve. Lea lives inTopton, near the Valley Preferred Cycling Center in Trexlertown. He will ride with Lancaster county native Floyd Landis on the OUCH presented by Maxxis team in the coming year. Lea, who has raced frequently in Lancaster […]

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This is an article from Franklin & Marshall College’s Diplomat online newsletter. It was written by cyclist and former New Era writer John Spidaliere.
It may be the most unusual reason for applying to Franklin & Marshall College.
Roads.
When Rob Burnett ’12 of Denver, Colo., was thinking about where to go to school, he heard that F&M […]

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Two weeks after the end of his two-year ban on competing in professional cycling, Lancaster County native Floyd Landis will return to racing.
On Valentine’s Day, Landis will be at the start line of the Amgen Tour of California as leader of the new OUCH presented by Maxxis team, Cyclingnews announced this week.
Brent Kay, Landis’s personal doctor and […]

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Local bicycle racing promoter Rich Ruoff announced over the weekend that he has redesigned the former RedRoseRaces.com website and he promised a schedule of races from his new company, “All that is Good.”
Ruoff promises to post a 2009 race schedule on Sunday on www.allthatisgood.org.
“From the Tour de Ephrata to the Tour of Lancaster County and […]

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