Potholes and Road Apples

The international Court of Arbitration for Sport today upheld Lancaster County native Floyd Landis’ suspension on charges that he doped to win the 2006 Tour de France.
Landis, of Farmersville, is the first winner to be stripped of his title in the 105-year-history of the race.
The ruling ends a two-year legal saga that began three days […]

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The under-25 riders of the Tour of Pennsylvania tore through northern Lancaster County this morning on their way to Carlisle.
The Ephrata Review supplied this video of the six-day race’s first sprint, which occured at Main and State streets at the center of Ephrata.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL56gUB4mEo

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The racers of the inaugural Tour of Pennsylvania, are set to speed through northeastern Lancaster County on Wednesday morning. The first stage of the six-day tour will start in Downingtown and finish in Carlisle.
The first sprint of the race, for riders under age 25, will be at the center of Ephrata, at Main and State streets, at about 11:30 […]

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The inaugural Tour of Pennsylvania, a six-day stage race for riders under 25 years old, won’t stop in Lancaster County as it heads west from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, but riders will cross the northeast part of the county and sprint through Ephrata, organizers announced last week.
The sprint comes during stage two of the race, on Wednesday, June […]

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Along with the professional and elite amateur racers who will take the streets in Ephrata for Sunday afternoon’s criterium, some of the area’s youngest pedalers will also be given a chance to shine.
There will be kid’s races on Sunday on Ephrata’s Main Street in conjunction with the Tour de Ephrata. Children ages 4&5 and 6&7 will race a […]

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The Green Mountain Cyclery, an Ephrata bicycle shop, is undergoing a major expansion.
Green Mountain owner Mike Farrington is anxiously awaiting the arrival this week of concrete contractors who will pour the foundation for the expanded store. 
 Last, week a demolition crew removed one section of the building as the $300,000 project quickly progresses to an expected mid-June completion. The shop, […]

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Every year at this time, following the excesses of Christmas celebrations, we are bombarded with advertisements for diets, gyms, cosmetic surgery and exercise equipment.
All play on the common New Year’s resolutions to lose weight and live a more healthy lifestyle. For bicyclists, the answer is simple: just ride.
Winter officially started Dec. 22 and so far […]

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Lancaster County-native Floyd Landis has 30 days to decide whether to appeal yesterday’s ruling from a U.S. arbitration panel to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport.
And, Floyd’s supporters at home are saying ‘give it up.’ This afternoon’s Lancaster New Era quote’s Landis’ former high school economics teacher and friend Dan Garrett calling the process […]

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A 16-year-old New Holland boy was struck and killed by a sports utility vehicle while he was riding his bicycle on Hahnstown Road at about 10:30 p.m. Friday, Ephrata police reported.
According to the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, Curtis Martin was the last of five friends riding single-file on the narrow road when he was struck by […]

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Floyd Landis came home for the weekend and felt the love.
Last summer’s Tour de France winner brought a line of 500 people to the Barnes & Noble store in Red Rose Commons, on Fruitville Pike, on Friday where he signed copies of his new autobiography “Positively False.”
On Saturday, he attended the wedding of his sister Priscilla […]

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