Potholes and Road Apples

Seeing the need for a local youth cycling organization, Mike Farrington, owner of the Green Mountain Cyclery bike shop, is stepping up to sponsor a club.
The Rockets presented by Green Mountain will serve youth ages 12 through 16. The club intends to teach road riding skills, basic racing skills, and basic bicycle maintenance. Youth would […]

[Read more →]

Pennsylvania’s Triple Crown of Cycling is down to a single race this year.
The Pro Cycling Tour, the organizer of what had been a three-race series, has cancelled races in Reading and Allentown after the title sponsor, TD Bank, cut back on its funding. The Philadelphia International Championship Race will still be held on June 7.
ESPN […]

[Read more →]

Local racer and photographer Jordan Bush, of the Shirk’s presented by Trek Bikes team, is back in Lancaster this week after seeing the second half of last week’s Tour of California.
Jordan put his fingers to the keyboards to record his experiences at the nation’s largest bicycle race. These are his reflections:
Stage 4: Merced to Clovis
Upon […]

[Read more →]

Jordan Bush, a local cycling photographer and racer on the Shirk’s Racing Presented by Trek Bikes team, is in California this week photographing the tour.
He sent a rambling dispatch Thursday with his observations from Stage 5 of the race. Here are excerpts:
 ”It is so hectic. I don’t understand how the racers make it all week. […]

[Read more →]

The local spoke, or chapter, of the International Christian Cycling Club has added a new event to the Lancaster County spring race calendar. The Smoketown Airport Criterium will be held at the airport, near Bird-in-Hand, on Saturday, May 16.
The criterium course will be unique. Riders will actually race on the airport runway. According to the […]

[Read more →]

It was all over the news this morning, including in this Associated Press report, that Floyd Landis took a fall during a training ride Thursday and was then a no-show at a Tour of California press conference that evening. The race begins in Sacramento Saturday afternoon.
According to a tour official, Landis was “bruised up pretty […]

[Read more →]

The eyes of the bicycle racing world will turn to Sacramento on Saturday for the starting prologue of the Amgen Tour of California. The race features Lance Armstrong’s return to racing in the U.S., 2008 Tour de France winner Carlos Sastre and a line-up of other cycling starts. It was also billed as being the return […]

[Read more →]

Local race promoter Rich Ruoff recently brought to my attention the story of Mile-a-minute Murphy.
Charles M. Murphy is shown in a 1901 photo used by Ruoff and Jack Simes in a flyer promoting their series of upcoming roller races.
Murphy, at left, was likely the most famous bicyclist of his day. Two years earlier, in June […]

[Read more →]

Emergency Medical Personnel, firefighters, police officers, fire police and other emergency responders are being invited to race their bicycles in a special Emergency Services Bike Race on Sunday, April 26, as part of the Tour de Ephrata. A special celebrity race will also be held for local politicians, VIPs and media personalities.Those races, along with […]

[Read more →]

In a development that would have seemed impossible only a few years ago, townships in Southern Lancaster County are working together to develop a public rail-trail on the former Enola Low-Grade rail line.
The Lancaster New Era reports today that four contiguous townships - Conestoga, Martic, Providence and Eden - are actively working to develop a […]

[Read more →]