Potholes and Road Apples

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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The much-anticipated mountain bike match up of Tour de France champions Lance Armstrong and Floyd Landis at the Leadville Trail 100 race this Saturday will not happen.
Race organizers announced Tuesday that Armstrong, the only seven-time Tour winner, has a scheduling conflict and will not be at the start line. This is the second time it […]

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Lancaster bicyclist Mike Ridgeway’s TeamEndeavor passed Springfield, Colo. this afternoon, leaving the Rockies behind them and heading east to Kansas.
The four-man team from Central Pennsylvania remains in seventh place in their division. After nearly three full days of pedaling across the country in the Race Across America, the team is averaging a steady 18.06 miles […]

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Local bicyclistMike Ridgeway’s TeamEndeavor was in seventh-place in their division Wednesday morning as members of the four-man team pedaled across the southwest in their second day of the Race Across America.
TeamEndeavor, led by Ray Peske of Dauphin County, was averaging 19.79 miles per hour this morning as it crossed Time station 5 in Hope, Arizona, […]

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Floyd Landis, who left Lancaster County to pursue a career in mountain bike racing, is returning to that sport Saturday in his first race since last summer’s Tour de France.
The Denver Post is reporting, http://test.denverpost.com/extremes/ci_6008997, that Landis will be going up against mountain biking legend Ned Overend and and last year’s champion Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski in […]

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