Potholes and Road Apples

With the cancellation of the remainder of the RedRoseRaces.com season, the only three cyclocross races planned for the county this year were wiped from the schedule. One of those, the Wonderland Cyclocross Race, has been restored.
David Butterworth, the controlling partner of RedRoseRaces, has brought back the race in conjunction with Christiana Cycling. The race will […]

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The Dream Ride for Lancaster Cycling Program is inviting all interested cyclists to join for a ride and a potluck meal to celebrate the closing of the summer season on Saturday, at 3 p.m., in front of Donegal Middle School, along Route 441 in Marietta.
Participants can do a 10- or 20-mile ride along the marked […]

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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.”
There were 116 […]

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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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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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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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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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