Potholes and Road Apples

A trip to see the Giro d’Italia may be less than a three-hour car ride if organizers in Washington, D.C., are successful in their bid to host the prologue and stage one circuit race for the 2012 edition of the Italian grand tour.
According to a Cyclingnews.com article, a proposal being crafted by the organizers of […]

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Momentum Sports Group, owners of the OUCH presented by Maxxis professional cycling team, announced today that they and Lancaster County native Floyd Landis have agreed to part ways.
The mutual agreement was to terminate the remainder of Landis’s contract for the 2009 season and the 2010 season.
Landis returned to racing in January after a well-publicized two-year […]

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Ride before you buy. Or, ride them just for the fun of riding them.
Green Mountain Cyclery in Ephrata is sponsoring a Trek demo day on Sunday, Nov. 22, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the J.EdwardMack Scout Reservation, near Brickerville.
Road and mountain bikes from Trek and Trek subsidiary Gary Fisher will be available for free test rides.
 While there […]

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Charles Armstrong, a homeless artist who travels around the country by bicycle, was profiled in the Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era Tuesday. This is staff writer Larry Alexander’s article:
When Charles Armstrong rides his bicycle through a town, people take notice.
The 30-year-old homeless artist rides a bike attached to a two-wheel infant carrier attached to a […]

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Bobby Lea, the OUCH presented by Maxxis rider from Mertztown, Pa., is leaving his current team and joining a new squad started by former U.S. criterium champion Rahsaan Bahati, Velonews is reporting.
The Bahati Foundation Pro Cycling Team will operate as a UCI continental team, doing races within the United States. Lea is one of 15 […]

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Dr. Christopher Thomas Thompson, the former emergency room physician who pulled in front of two bicyclists doing a 30-mph descent and slammed on his brakes, was found guilty of assault with deadly weapon this week, following a week-long trial.
A jury returned the verdict Monday, convicting Thompson of six felonies and one misdemeanor, Velonews reported.
Thompson’s attorney sought […]

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Penn State Junior Bobby Longenecker and three of his fellow former Manheim Township classmates pedaled from the Mexican border in southern California to Lubec, Maine - the easternmost town in the nation - last summer.
The diagonal cross-country trek is chronicaled in a Daily Collegian article Tuesday, along with Longenecker’s effort to run marathons in all […]

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Two Pennsylvania racers - one eastern and one western - are joining the Jelly Belly professional team in 2010, Cyclingnews.com reported.
Mike “Meatball” Friedman, from Pittsburgh, will be joining the team, sponsored by the candy company. Friedman will be leaving the Garmin-Slipstream team, with whom he has competed in some of the European Spring Classics.
And Jonathan Chodroff, […]

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In case you missed it, the Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era had a feature story on Thursday on the Old School Schwinn Bike Club, a group in Lancaster with restored or tricked out Schwinn, Sears or J.C. Higgins rides.
The article is here. And the video is below.

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The most interesting courtroom drama in recent years is taking place this week in Los Angeles.
It is the road rage trial of a California doctor who passed two cyclists descending a hill and then slammed on his brakes. One cyclist swerved to avoid the car, clipped the back bumper and went flying into the oncoming lane. He […]

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