Potholes and Road Apples

Dr. Andy Baldwin and his father, former state Rep. Roy Baldwin, and the rest of their Cross Pennsylvania Health Ride crew will arrive in Lancaster County Thursday afternoon.
Baldwin, of television’s “Bachelor” fame, is doing the 420-mile bike ride to draw attention to the epidemic of childhood obesity. At elementary school assemblies across the state, Baldwin, […]

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Lancaster County native Andy Baldwin, the U.S. Navy doctor and triathlete of “The Bachelor” reality show fame begins a cross-state Health Ride in Pittsburgh Friday. The 420-mile tour includes stops at elementary schools where Baldwin and other participants will promote exercise and a health diet. The tour comes to Lancaster County next Thursday, with presentations […]

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A group of high school guidance counselors combined a working vacation with cycling this week as they made their way through Lancaster County visiting colleges. According to a New York Times report on the trip, the counselors visited Franklin & Marshall and Elizabethtown. The article is here.

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In case you missed it, Zac Felpel, a local Cat. 2 racer on Team Alliance Environmental, was the featured “Teen of the Week” in the Saturday edition of the Lancaster New Era/Intelligencer Journal. This is the article:
When a ribbon of open road is rolling beneath his two tires, Zachary J. Felpel is in bicycling heaven.
The […]

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Lancaster County’s most eligible bachelor, Dr. Andy Baldwin, and his father, former state Rep. Roy Baldwin, are planning a bicycle ride across Pennsylvania in October to promote activity for children.
The “X-PA Healthy Lifestyle Bike Ride” is intended as an educational sweep across the southern part of the state, using the Pennsylvania ‘S Route.’ The Baldwins will advocate for the prevention of […]

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This is an article from Franklin & Marshall College’s Diplomat online newsletter. It was written by cyclist and former New Era writer John Spidaliere.
It may be the most unusual reason for applying to Franklin & Marshall College.
Roads.
When Rob Burnett ’12 of Denver, Colo., was thinking about where to go to school, he heard that F&M […]

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Lancaster County’s draft Long Range Transportation Plan - a policy document intended to steer transportation spending through 2035 - is calling for greater planning for non-automotive transportation, including bicycling.
Consideration of different modes of transportation is a significant shift for planners who have previously focused on improvements to the county’s 3,830 linear miles of roadway — […]

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Students and faculty of Lancaster’s Franklin & Marshall College have begun exploring the community mounted on new blue and white college bicycles.
The mountain bikes were donated to the school by alumnus Michael Zane earlier this month. Zane is the founder of Kryptonite Bicycle Lock Corporation and the company’s chairman and president until its sale to […]

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Lurch to the right: transport minister Tom Harris sharpens up his cycling skills in Leicester. Photograph: Fabio De Paula/PA
 

The British, facing the same problems we face here, are making an effort to deal with childhood obesity and traffic congestion by attempting to reintroduce an old concept: children riding bicycles.
And, rather than just given cycling lip service, the […]

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