Potholes and Road Apples

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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Rich Ruoff, former president of the now-defunct Red Rose Races, posted recently on the RedRoseRaces.com site that some local bicycle races will return this summer.
In addition to the Grandview Grand Prix, being hosted by the Spinners Cycling Team on July 26, there will also be a “Comeback Criterium,” on Sunday, July 20, in New Holland. […]

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Local bicycle racing team Spinners Cycling has stepped in to revive a second race that was cancelled earlier this month with the sudden demise of RedRoseRaces.com.
Spinners will revive the criterium race in Grandview Heights, now called the Grandview Grand Prix. Online registration for the July 26 race will open on Tuesday, June 24.
The criterium, in the […]

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Responding to criticism that the Brownstown Road Race and two other races he has revived for the season were limited to beginners racers, race promoter David Butterworth has added categories for elite racers and masters to the June 28 Brownstown race.
Butterworth scheduled the Brownstown race, along with the Peiffer Hill and Deodate road races, earlier […]

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Several teams are now planning bicycle races to fill the void left by the sudden collapse last week of RedRoseRaces.com.
Under the leadership of the Pennsylvania Cycling Association, 24 promoters joined on a conference call Tuesday to discuss the situation and try to fill the holes left in the racing calendar left after RedRoseRaces cancelled the 16 […]

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A week after pulling the plug on the RedRoseRaces.com season, bicycling race promoter David Butterworth is reviving three races under his Pro-Am Cycling banner.
On-line registration will open Thursday evening for the Brownstown Road Race, on June 28, and a week later for the Peiffer Hill Road Race, on July 12, and a week after that […]

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Ending nearly a week of silence, Red Rose Race founder Rich Ruoff has posted a lengthy account of the sudden demise of the local bicycle race promotion company, laying blame at the feet of the controlling partner and offering hope that somehow it can still be revived.
Red Rose Races had begun a phenomenal year, with record […]

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Lancaster-based Red Rose Races, the largest bicycle road race promoter in the Mid-Atlantic - and by entrants, possibly the largest in the country - has canceled its races for the remainder of the season and will begin liquidating assets, said David Butterworth, the company’s controlling partner.
Butterworth sent an e-mail Wednesday morning to riders who participated […]

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A car plowed into a bike race along a highway near the US-Mexico border on Sunday, killing one and injuring 14 others, the Associated Press reported this morning.
Police investigator Jose Alfredo Rodriguez says the 28-year-old driver was apparently drunk and fell asleep when he crashed into the race.
Rodriguez says Juan Campos was charged with killing […]

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