Potholes and Road Apples

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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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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No rest for the weary.
Two days after he finished the three long weeks of the Giro d’Italia, the Liquigas team’s Daniele Bennati is slated to start Tuesday morning at Commerce Bank’s Lehigh Valley Classic in Allentown. The Italian sprinter finished the Giro in 70th place overall in Milan Sunday, after an individual time trial in […]

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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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Toyota-United’s Ivan Stevic spent Sunday night in a Lancaster hospital after abandoning the Tom Bamford Lancaster Classic because of difficulty breathing.
According to the team’s website, http://www.toyota-united.com/, the Serbian National Champion was sitting along the road when team director Harm Jansen spotted him before the half-way point of the 85-mile race.

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Rain kept the crowd down at Sunday’s Tom Bamford Lancaster Classic race, but die-hard fans were treated to good racing on the city’s streets.
Lancaster is usually a proving ground for younger, up-and-coming riders or a place for seasoned veterans from Europe. Last year, it was young Jackson Stewart of the Sierra Nevada team winning the […]

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Preparations are in full swing for the upcoming Tom Bamford Classic race in Lancaster, Sunday, June 3.
Viewing of the elite amatuer men’s and women’s criteriums and the professional bicycle race are free and open to the public. Spectators watch from all around the course, but many gather at the feed zone, at the Williamson area of Lancaster […]

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Lancaster already has a professional bicycle race that draws racers from across the world and 15,000 spectators to the city’s streets.
Next year, it could have another.
Organizers of a new cross-state race are slated to announce their plans this afternoon at a state capitol press conference.
Local race organizer Rich Ruoff, of Red Rose Races, will be […]

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A press release e-mail Wednesday states that plans for a new, professional, cross-state bicycle race will be announced next week.
A press conference will be held in the state capitol in Harrisburg on Wednesday, May 16. The highest ranking state government official slated to attend is a deputy secretary of tourism, but the attendees include a representative […]

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The Floyd tragedy; Turkey Hill open/closed; Dillerville bridge improvements; Duryea Downhill
I begin with an apology. I took a break from the blog for two weeks while traveling with my family in Egypt. The apology comes from my taking more than a week after I returned to find my way back here.
*I was stunned when I […]

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