Potholes and Road Apples

Last Friday, race promoter David Butterworth cancelled his Deodate Road Race. This Friday, it was Rich Ruoff’s turn.
Ruoff, former director of RedRoseRaces.com, cancelled his Londonderry-Conoy Road Race late this morning. In an e-mail message sent to registered riders, Ruoff wrote that “registration is slow and I’m not in a position to absorb a loss.”
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Despite a mid-morning rain storm north of Lititz Saturday, there was a good turn out of riders for the Hammer Creek Road Race.
More than 200 riders registered by the Thursday evening deadline for online, advance registration. The ranks of the six category races were further swelled by the cancellation of the competing Deodate Road Race. […]

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The former partners of RedRoseRaces.com are going head-to-head Saturday - each with a race of their own.
David Butterworth, the controlling partner of RedRoseRaces.com, is organizing the Deodate Road Race, near Middletown, in Dauphin County. Rich Ruoff, RedRoseRaces’ founder and former director, is organizing the Hammercreek Road Race, north of Lititz, in Lancaster County.
The prospect of competing […]

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A bicycle commuter in Washington, D.C. intervened Wednesday morning to stop syndicated political columnist Robert Novak after Novak reported struck a pedestrian on D.C.’s K Street and then kept driving.
According to a Washington Post account, Novak was driving his black Chevrolet Corvette with the top up when he struck a homeless man crossing the street. The […]

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In case you missed it in this morning’s Intelligencer-Journal, there was a good preview article on the upcoming Grandview Grand Prix criterium, being held on July 26. The race was quickly organized by local cycling enthusiasts and Grandview Heights residents Michael Doupe, Michele Bote and Jack Poplar in the weeks after the Red Rose Races collapse last month.
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Rich Ruoff, former director of RedRoseRaces.com, has posted notice of two additional races that he is organizing for next month.
On his website, Ruoff has announced there will be a Londonderry/Conoy Road Race on Saturday, Aug.9, and a Race Avenue Criterium on Saturday, Aug. 23. Details of the races will be posted soon. Online registration sites […]

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Rich Ruoff, “director of all that is good,” has released details of two races that he is organizing with the Swashbuckler/PA Renfaire.com Cycling Team.
The first of those is the Comeback Criterium, on Sunday, July 20, on the grounds of the Case New Holland tractor factory in New Holland. Online registration for that race opens at noon today. The […]

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Saturday’s Brownstown Road Race should be an intimate gathering among strangers.
Online registration for the race closed Thursday evening. There will be no same-day registration. And, according to the list of confirmed riders, there will be only 103 people racing in 11 different categories. That number is slightly more than the number of racers in a […]

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The under-25 riders of the Tour of Pennsylvania tore through northern Lancaster County this morning on their way to Carlisle.
The Ephrata Review supplied this video of the six-day race’s first sprint, which occured at Main and State streets at the center of Ephrata.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL56gUB4mEo

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A threatened boycott of Pro-Am Cycling races seemed to be having an effect - but not a universal effect - on registration for Saturday’s Brownstown Road Race.
Early this afternoon, following this morning’s posting of the list of confirmed riders on the BikeReg.com event registration website, only 60 riders had registered for the race, which begins at 9 […]

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