Potholes and Road Apples

 
Charles Armstrong, a homeless artist who travels around the country by bicycle, was profiled in the Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era Tuesday. This is staff writer Larry Alexander’s article:
When Charles Armstrong rides his bicycle through a town, people take notice.
The 30-year-old homeless artist rides a bike attached to a two-wheel infant carrier attached to a […]

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Penn State Junior Bobby Longenecker and three of his fellow former Manheim Township classmates pedaled from the Mexican border in southern California to Lubec, Maine - the easternmost town in the nation - last summer.
The diagonal cross-country trek is chronicaled in a Daily Collegian article Tuesday, along with Longenecker’s effort to run marathons in all […]

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In case you missed it, the Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era had a feature story on Thursday on the Old School Schwinn Bike Club, a group in Lancaster with restored or tricked out Schwinn, Sears or J.C. Higgins rides.
The article is here. And the video is below.

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If you want to see the pros race in 2010, you’ll have to start your engines … and expect to drive at least an hour.
The closest professional bicycle races in the National Racing Calendar released last week by the sport’s governing body, USA Cycling, are the Wilmington Grand Prix, in Wilmington, Del. on May 22; […]

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The forecast for steady rain is prompting organizers of the newly formed League of Lancaster Bicyclists to stay inside on Saturday.
The group will meet at the WOW Wingery in Harrisburg Avenue’s College Row, across from Franklin & Marshall College, at 1:30 p.m. Instead of the planned 45- or 26-mile rides, there will be a video […]

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In June, Lancaster’s Intelligencer Journal carried a feature article about Chad Gerlach, a California cyclist of great talent who had abandoned cycling in 2002 when he fell into a life of crack addiction and alcoholism on the streets. After five years, in which he was twice stabbed, Gerlach successfully went through and intervention program and had recovered. He began […]

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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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Dr. Andy Baldwin and his father, former state Rep. Roy Baldwin, and the rest of their Cross Pennsylvania Health Ride crew will arrive in Lancaster County Thursday afternoon.
Baldwin, of television’s “Bachelor” fame, is doing the 420-mile bike ride to draw attention to the epidemic of childhood obesity. At elementary school assemblies across the state, Baldwin, […]

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Dream Ride Projects recently became the county’s first “Bike Friendly” organization, and one of only four in the state. Dream Ride founder and executive director Mike Ridgeway hopes to use the designation, from the national League of American Bicyclists, as a springboard to eventually having the whole county listed as “Bike Friendly.”
Here is the article that […]

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Lancaster County native Andy Baldwin, the U.S. Navy doctor and triathlete of “The Bachelor” reality show fame begins a cross-state Health Ride in Pittsburgh Friday. The 420-mile tour includes stops at elementary schools where Baldwin and other participants will promote exercise and a health diet. The tour comes to Lancaster County next Thursday, with presentations […]

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