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Andy Clarke, president of the League of American Bicyclists, made promotion of cycling in Lancaster County sound like a no-brainer … as easy as, well, riding a bicycle.
He made his case this morning before about 45 county and municipal planners, local police officers and bicycling advocates during a workshop at the Lancaster Farm & Home […]

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Lancaster City Council members next week will begin consideration of a measure that would ban the riding of bicycles and skateboards on downtown sidewalks.
A ban already exists within a one-block area centered on Penn Square, at Queen and King streets. The proposal would expand the ban to sidewalks throughout the Downtown Investment District at the […]

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County transportation planners, municipal and county officials are expected to gather Friday morning, from 7:30 a.m. to noon, to hear presentations about how to encourge bicycling in Lancaster County and participate in workshops about steps they can take.
The featured speakers at the workshop is League of American Bicyclists Executive Director Andy Clarke and Bill Nesper, director of […]

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No one can accuse Mike Ridgeway and Lauri Ahlskog of thinking small.
In two weeks they intend to announce a big goal and start what they hope is a communitywide conversation about how to get there: making Lancaster “bike friendly.”
Ridgeway, the local bicycling advocate and founder of the Dream Ride Projects bike tours, and Ahlskog, the […]

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USA Cycling, the governing body of professional bicycle racing in this country, today published its 2009 National Racing Calender on its website. The schedule lists 34 events, up by one from this year. Strangely absent from the list are nearly all the annual professional races held in this region by the Norristown-based Pro Cycling Tour.
The only Pro […]

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On Wednesday morning, in the pre-dawn darkness, I was counted a half-dozen other bicyclists on the 12 miles of road I covered between Lititz and downtown Lancaster. The number was unusually high. I have noticed more commuters in recent months - those cyclists like myself, carrying bags of clothing and sometimes a coffee thermos on […]

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One hundred and twenty bicycle riders will pedal out of Manhattan at 10 a.m. Saturday to start the 2008 Brita Climate Ride.
The riders will take five days to cover the 320 miles from New York City to Washington, D.C., where they will take their message about global climate change to federal legislators. Along the way, […]

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The Lancaster Intelligencer Journal this morning has a article on local bicyclist Steve Farrah, who rode  from the Pacific to the Atlantic with friend Joe Peko of Lewisberry.
After dipping their tires in the Pacific in June, they crossed the desert, the Continental Divide, the Great Plains and the Appalachian Mountains as they journeyed east. They survived New Jersey […]

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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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Two Lancaster Countains took second places in the wet Cyclosportif rides prior to last Saturday’s Univest Grand Prix professional race.
The sportif riders took to the race course in the morning for 40- and 60- mile rides that began and ended in Souderton. The rides were not races, but participants wore timing chips were and ranked by […]

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