Potholes and Road Apples

With area temperatures in single-digits this morning and wind chill making it feel like 15 below, I will be forcing myself into the gym, taking a spin class and pining for warmer weather today.

Local race organizer Red Rose Races has provided a visual to help racers keep their focus on these cold days. Red Rose has posted a […]

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USA Cycling recently posted a spreadsheet of 14 continental teams which will be racing in domestic professional races this year. Although the region is well represented on the rider rosters, there will be no locals in the professional peleton this year.
Brad Viera, a Lancaster native and Millersville University student, is absent from the listings. He […]

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Organizers of the controversial Tour of America bicycle race announced last week that they had scaled back the length and distance of the first-time race to be held in September.
Yet, even with cutting the race by a week and half as many miles, the stage race may still be coming through Lancaster County. Although the race […]

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Farmersville native Floyd Landis this week filed his promised appeal to the Switzerland-based Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Landis is appealing the ruling of an arbitration panel that found in late September that Landis had used artificial testosterone during stage 17 of the 2006 Tour de France. Landis subsequently won the three week race. After the […]

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LANCASTER MAY SEE AMATEUR DOWNTOWN CRITERIUM RACE CONTINUE
The Lancaster bicycle race — a springtime staple since 1992 — is moving to Allentown in 2008.
The professional race, which brought racers from across the globe to Lancaster for the first leg of the Pennsylvania Triple Crown of Cycling, drew a meager crowd of spectators on Sunday, June […]

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The Tom Bamford Classic, Lancaster’s professional bicycle race, slated for June 1, 2008, may remainunpublicized and ignored under a new marketing deal announced recently by race organizers the Pro Cycling Tour LLC.
The Pro Cycling Tour operates the three-event cycling series called the Commerce Bank Triple Crown of Cycling. Along with Lancaster, there is a race in […]

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Team Slipstream will be racing next year in a kit designed by Joe Yule of Redondo Beach, California.
The selection of Yule’s design was made public Thursday at Interbike, the bicycling industry trade show in Las Vegas. Yule, a graphic designer and avid cyclist, submitted one of more than 600 designs submitted in the first-of-its-kind contest. […]

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It was in 2002 when cycling fan Frank Arokiasamy was trying to follow the Tour de France that he first conceived the ambitious plans he unveiled this week.
Arokiasamy said American Lance Armstrong was dominating the race, but he could not watch it on television in the United States. So, Arokiasamy began dreaming of a bicycle […]

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The panel of arbitrators who heard Lancaster County-native Floyd Landis’ doping case have concluded that he took testosterone to enhance his performance in the 2006 Tour de France.
The Associated Press reported getting an advance copy of the U.S. Anti-doping agency finding. The news broke just before 2 p.m. today.
Landis, of Farmersville, may still appeal the decision to the international Court of Arbitration […]

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Saturday was the last day to submit entries for the “Get in the Slipstream” jersey competition. Now, you can cast votes for the kits you would like to see the professional continental team will wear in 2008.
Of the 613 entries submitted by people in 28 states and 21 countries, team officials have selected five finalists. You can […]

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