Potholes and Road Apples

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.
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The two-day, three-event Tour de Ephrata will be held this weekend under what is forecast to be warm and sunny skies.
With the loss two years ago of downtown Lancaster’s professional bicycle race, the Tour de Ephrata is now the county’s largest bicycle race. Online registration closes this afternoon, at 1 p.m. By mid-morning, 530 racers had already […]

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Seeing the need for a local youth cycling organization, Mike Farrington, owner of the Green Mountain Cyclery bike shop, is stepping up to sponsor a club.
The Rockets presented by Green Mountain will serve youth ages 12 through 16. The club intends to teach road riding skills, basic racing skills, and basic bicycle maintenance. Youth would […]

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The expansion of Green Mountain Cyclery last year provided space in the Ephrata bike shop to hold classes. The first of those classes, a basic bicycle maintenance class, will be held Wednesday, Jan. 14, from 6-9 p.m. The cost of the class is $20 and registration can be done via e-mail. Pre-registration is required.
That class […]

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A freestyle BMX show originally scheduled for last Saturday was pushed back by a week due to the rain.
This Saturday, Nov. 1, there will be three free demonstrations of BMX bike riding, jumping and tricks on new wooden halfpipe constructed behind the Green Mountain Cyclery bike shop, 285 S. Reading Road, Ephrata.
The 45 minute shows will […]

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Representatives of the Trek Bike company will be pulling into Camp Mack, off Route 501 north of Brickerville, pulling a trailer of Trek and Gary Fisher bikes on Sunday, Oct. 26. Both road and mountain bikes will be available for test rides between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.
The event is being sponsored by Green Mountain […]

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The Green Mountain Cyclery bike shop in Ephrata will hold the local Trek WSD Breast Cancer Awareness Ride on Saturday, Oct. 11, at 10 a.m.
Green Mountain, 285 S. Reading Road, is one of six Trek dealers in Pennsylvania and one of 100 participating dealers in the United States and Canada. Trek hopes to have 10,000 men, […]

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A widely circulated Associated Press report this morning quoted an official with Momentum Sports Group, owner of the Health Net-Maxxis domestic professional team, confirming the company is negotiating with Lancaster County native Floyd Landis for his return to cycling.
Team director Mike Tamayo, speaking at the Tour of Missouri race Wednesday, confirmed the talks.
“We are in negotiations with […]

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The Green Mountain Cyclery bike shop in Ephrata will celebrate its expansion later this month with a week of special events, give-aways and sale prices from Monday, Sept. 15 to Saturday, Sept. 20.
Final building inspection was scheduled for Thursday afternoon.
The shop, at 285 S. Reading Road, undergone a major renovation in the past six months. […]

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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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