Potholes and Road Apples

In case you missed it in Saturday’s Intelligencer Journal, there was a feature article on bike-racer-turned-homeless-addict-turned-bike-racer-again Chad Gerlach. He was in town for Saturday’s Race Avenue Criterium and using the Lancaster race as a warm up to Sunday’s Philadelphia International championship race.
At the criterium Saturday, Gerlach, of the Amore Vita Professional Cycling Team, was narrowly edged out of […]

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Lancaster County native Floyd Landis will be home, or at least in the area this weekend. He is arguably the biggest name racing in Sunday’s TD Bank Philadelphia Championship race.
Landis, who lives in Southern California, is back racing this year with his OUCH Pro Cycling Team after a two-year, well-chronicles hiatus from the sport.
The 114-mile men’s […]

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Organizers of Altoon’s stage race, the International Tour de ‘Toona, became the latest to shelve race plans for this year. On Friday, it was announced that the race will not be held this year. Plans call for a revival of the race in 2010.
“I’m very disappointed that we had to postpone this year’s race, but, […]

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Racers can choose to do a criterium, a road race or both in Lancaster County this weekend.
On Saturday, there will be the inaugural Smoketown Airport Crit, presented by the International Christian Cycling Club and Shirks Racing presented by Trek Bikes. The first group, Category 5 racers, begin at 8:15 a.m. Online registration for the race […]

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Altoona’s Tour de ‘Toona is the latest race threatened with cancellation due to a lack of sponsorship dollars, the Altoona Mirror is reporting today.
Organizers are now weighing whether to cancel the four days of racing now planned for July 16-19, but are holding out for one major sponsor. If cancelled, the Altoona race will join a list […]

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The gates of the Valley Preferred Cycling Center, otherwise known as the Lehigh Velodrome, near Trexlertown, open tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. for the 7th annual Spring Bicycle Flea Market.
The largest bicycling-specific spring swap meet on the East Coast will include 120 vendors, including shops clearing out old inventory at greatly reduced prices and about individual bike enthusiasts cleaning out […]

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The 10th annual Turkey Hill Country Classic bicycle races will be held Saturday, beginning with the pro/elite level race at 10:20 a.m.
According to BikeReg.com, there are 375 riders pre-registered for the six different race categories. Same-day registration will be available to the master’s categories and the pro/elite race. Other categories are full.
In addition to the […]

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Pro Cycling Tour President David Chauner announced late Wednesday that enough sponsor dollars have been committed to allow the Philadelphia International Championship race to be held.
The fate of the June 7 race has been in doubt for more than a week, since Chauner said there was a $500,000 funding gap. In a statement Wednesday, Chauner […]

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The Pro Cycling Tour officials allowed a Monday deadline to pass without making an announcement whether the 25th annual championship race will be held June 7. On Tuesday, PCT President David Chauner said that talks have opened with a potential new sponsor for the race. Chauner is facing a $500,00 funding gap.
According to a statement […]

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Officials at the Pro Cycling Tour, the promoters of the TD Philadelphia International Cycling Championship race, reported Thursday that people are reaching for their wallets to save the June 7 professional race.
PCT reported Tuesday that the 25-year-old race - the largest one-day bicycle race in the nation - would be cancelled unless they found an additional […]

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