Potholes and Road Apples

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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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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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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Happy birthday to Lancaster County’s Floyd Landis, who turns 34 today.

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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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In a promotional gimmick in advance of the Tour of Utah, Lancaster County native Floyd Landis will be challenging Utah Jazz guard Deron Williams in a three-point shootout and in a bicycle time trial on Friday.
Landis said the last time he was on a basketball court “was probably when I was 15,” he said in a […]

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Lancaster County native Floyd Landis will be home, or at least in the area this weekend. He is arguably the biggest name racing in Sunday’s TD Bank Philadelphia Championship race.
Landis, who lives in Southern California, is back racing this year with his OUCH Pro Cycling Team after a two-year, well-chronicles hiatus from the sport.
The 114-mile men’s […]

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Local racer and photographer Jordan Bush, of the Shirk’s presented by Trek Bikes team, is back in Lancaster this week after seeing the second half of last week’s Tour of California.
Jordan put his fingers to the keyboards to record his experiences at the nation’s largest bicycle race. These are his reflections:
Stage 4: Merced to Clovis
Upon […]

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Jordan Bush, a local cycling photographer and racer on the Shirk’s Racing Presented by Trek Bikes team, is in California this week photographing the tour.
He sent a rambling dispatch Thursday with his observations from Stage 5 of the race. Here are excerpts:
 ”It is so hectic. I don’t understand how the racers make it all week. […]

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It was all over the news this morning, including in this Associated Press report, that Floyd Landis took a fall during a training ride Thursday and was then a no-show at a Tour of California press conference that evening. The race begins in Sacramento Saturday afternoon.
According to a tour official, Landis was “bruised up pretty […]

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