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 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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Me, my boys and my money are headed to Trexlertown Saturday for the annual end-of-season swap meet at the Valley Perferred Cycling Center, formerly the Lehigh Valley Velodrome.
 The veloswap is billed as the largest on the East Coast. The sale draws a wide array of bicycle riders - from tattooed punk rock messengers, to roadies, […]

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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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Before signing copies of his book, “Positively False,” at the Lancaster Barnes & Noble this evening, Tour de France winner and Lancaster County native Floyd Landis is spending the day in Montgomery County.
Landis was slated to lead a noon bicycle ride in Souderton, beginning at the Landis Supermarket, to mark the 10th anniversary of the […]

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They’re gone.
Tickets to the “Ride with Floyd” bicycle ride and picnic on Sunday afternoon are sold out. The last of the 100 tickets were sold by the Green Mountain Cyclery bike shop at about 4 p.m. Tuesday, owner Mike Farrington said this morning.
The 20-mile ride with last year’s Tour de France winner Floyd Landis is […]

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Tour de France winner Floyd Landis is returning to Lancaster County next weekend and this time he’s taking the time to ride his bike.
Landis, as previously announced, will be at the Lancaster Barnes & Noble store, in Red Rose Commons, on Fruitville Pike, on Friday, at 7 p.m. He will be signing copies of his new […]

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Bike Shop owner Mike Farrington had four cars in his Ephrata parking lot this morning before opening. Word had gotten out that Floyd Landis’ Floyd Fairness Fund had scheduled a second event with the Tour de France champion this Saturday, at the Ephrata Performing Arts Center.
Farrington, of Green Mountain Cyclery, is selling tickets to the event […]

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Floyd’s Ephrata event: This morning, Jen Farrington said there were about 40 tickets left for the Floyd Fairness Fund events at the Ephrata Performing Arts Center on March 25. She did not expect them to last until the end of the day. Apparently, Mike’s estimate of 70 left on Thursday was a low-ball. She said […]

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Get them before they’re gone.
Tickets to Floyd Landis’ fund-raising event at the Ephrata Performing Arts Center on Sunday, March 25, are nearly sold out.
As of 10:30 this morning, about 70 of the 300 tickets remained. Mike Farrington, of the Green Mountain Cyclery bike shop in Ephrata, said he expected the event to be sold out […]

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