Potholes and Road Apples

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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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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The Green Mountain Cyclery bike shop in Ephrata will celebrate its expansion later this month with a week of special events, give-aways and sale prices from Monday, Sept. 15 to Saturday, Sept. 20.
Final building inspection was scheduled for Thursday afternoon.
The shop, at 285 S. Reading Road, undergone a major renovation in the past six months. […]

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Last Friday, race promoter David Butterworth cancelled his Deodate Road Race. This Friday, it was Rich Ruoff’s turn.
Ruoff, former director of RedRoseRaces.com, cancelled his Londonderry-Conoy Road Race late this morning. In an e-mail message sent to registered riders, Ruoff wrote that “registration is slow and I’m not in a position to absorb a loss.”
There were 116 […]

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Rich Ruoff, “director of all that is good,” has released details of two races that he is organizing with the Swashbuckler/PA Renfaire.com Cycling Team.
The first of those is the Comeback Criterium, on Sunday, July 20, on the grounds of the Case New Holland tractor factory in New Holland. Online registration for that race opens at noon today. The […]

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Responding to criticism that the Brownstown Road Race and two other races he has revived for the season were limited to beginners racers, race promoter David Butterworth has added categories for elite racers and masters to the June 28 Brownstown race.
Butterworth scheduled the Brownstown race, along with the Peiffer Hill and Deodate road races, earlier […]

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Ending nearly a week of silence, Red Rose Race founder Rich Ruoff has posted a lengthy account of the sudden demise of the local bicycle race promotion company, laying blame at the feet of the controlling partner and offering hope that somehow it can still be revived.
Red Rose Races had begun a phenomenal year, with record […]

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Lancaster-based Red Rose Races, the largest bicycle road race promoter in the Mid-Atlantic - and by entrants, possibly the largest in the country - has canceled its races for the remainder of the season and will begin liquidating assets, said David Butterworth, the company’s controlling partner.
Butterworth sent an e-mail Wednesday morning to riders who participated […]

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The management of Pedro’s USA and a Swiss investment firm have purchased Pedro’s from Swix Sports USA, Velonews reports today.
Pedro’s which makes earth-friendly bicycle lubes, degreasers and accessories has been owned by the ski wax and ski pole company for a decade.
Chris Zigmont, a long-time Pedro’s executive, will become the company’s new CEO with the […]

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The Trek bicycle company, the nation’s best-selling bike company, has asked a court to intervene to allow it to sever its ties to three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond, the Associated Press reported today.
Trek President John Burke said Tuesday that LeMond had a “troubling pattern of inconsistent business dealings” and that his outspokenness about […]

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