Potholes and Road Apples

The New York Times has an interesting article today on the growing number of business travellers who cycle. They takes bikes with them or rent them where they are going.
Included in the article in an interesting statistic:
According to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey data released last month, there was a 43 percent increase nationally from […]

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Slate writer Christopher Beam recently wrote about bicyclists regularly breaking traffic laws - including himself - and the evolution of those laws and the two different philosophies most common among cyclists for whether to follow them. His article, “How do the get bikers to obey traffic laws,” is a good read.

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Cyclists usually have to be picked from a lottery of entrants to race the grueling, 100-mile Leadville Trail 100 mountain bike race in Colorado. For one night only, you have the opportunity to see the race up close without breaking a sweat or going most of the way across the country. “Race Across the Sky,” […]

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If you want to see the pros race in 2010, you’ll have to start your engines … and expect to drive at least an hour.
The closest professional bicycle races in the National Racing Calendar released last week by the sport’s governing body, USA Cycling, are the Wilmington Grand Prix, in Wilmington, Del. on May 22; […]

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The forecast for steady rain is prompting organizers of the newly formed League of Lancaster Bicyclists to stay inside on Saturday.
The group will meet at the WOW Wingery in Harrisburg Avenue’s College Row, across from Franklin & Marshall College, at 1:30 p.m. Instead of the planned 45- or 26-mile rides, there will be a video […]

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In June, Lancaster’s Intelligencer Journal carried a feature article about Chad Gerlach, a California cyclist of great talent who had abandoned cycling in 2002 when he fell into a life of crack addiction and alcoholism on the streets. After five years, in which he was twice stabbed, Gerlach successfully went through and intervention program and had recovered. He began […]

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Floyd Landis is stretching his cycling season into November with his participation in the Tour of the Southland next month.
Landis, a Lancaster County native, will compete with the five-man cycling-nzshop.com-bioSPORT team in the six-day, nine-stage tour which begins Nov. 2 on New Zealand’s South Island, the Associated Press reported Thursday.
The announcement sparked immediate debate among […]

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Dr. Andy Baldwin and his father, former state Rep. Roy Baldwin, and the rest of their Cross Pennsylvania Health Ride crew will arrive in Lancaster County Thursday afternoon.
Baldwin, of television’s “Bachelor” fame, is doing the 420-mile bike ride to draw attention to the epidemic of childhood obesity. At elementary school assemblies across the state, Baldwin, […]

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Cooper, the British car company, which makes the Mini and was a highly successful race car company in the 1950s and 1960s, is launching a bicycle line.
According to British cycling Web site BikeRadar.com, four models are expected to be unveiled next week. Three of those are single-speeds named after Formula One races that Cooper cars […]

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Dream Ride Projects recently became the county’s first “Bike Friendly” organization, and one of only four in the state. Dream Ride founder and executive director Mike Ridgeway hopes to use the designation, from the national League of American Bicyclists, as a springboard to eventually having the whole county listed as “Bike Friendly.”
Here is the article that […]

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