Potholes and Road Apples

Bobby Lea, the OUCH presented by Maxxis rider from Mertztown, Pa., is leaving his current team and joining a new squad started by former U.S. criterium champion Rahsaan Bahati, Velonews is reporting.
The Bahati Foundation Pro Cycling Team will operate as a UCI continental team, doing races within the United States. Lea is one of 15 […]

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Two Pennsylvania racers - one eastern and one western - are joining the Jelly Belly professional team in 2010, Cyclingnews.com reported.
Mike “Meatball” Friedman, from Pittsburgh, will be joining the team, sponsored by the candy company. Friedman will be leaving the Garmin-Slipstream team, with whom he has competed in some of the European Spring Classics.
And Jonathan Chodroff, […]

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If you want to see the pros race in 2010, you’ll have to start your engines … and expect to drive at least an hour.
The closest professional bicycle races in the National Racing Calendar released last week by the sport’s governing body, USA Cycling, are the Wilmington Grand Prix, in Wilmington, Del. on May 22; […]

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Floyd Landis is stretching his cycling season into November with his participation in the Tour of the Southland next month.
Landis, a Lancaster County native, will compete with the five-man cycling-nzshop.com-bioSPORT team in the six-day, nine-stage tour which begins Nov. 2 on New Zealand’s South Island, the Associated Press reported Thursday.
The announcement sparked immediate debate among […]

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July’s Dream Ride Lancaster charity bicycling tour raised more than $146,000 for 17 charities.
More than 400 riders participated in the event, completing distances of 10, 20, 30, 62 or 100 miles. Those riders raised funds for non-profit organizations. Representatives from those charities participated by staffing rest stops along the routes.
Dream Ride founder and event organizer Mike […]

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There are no cyclocross races schedule for Lancaster County this year, but the first in the region will be held this weekend.
The Nittany Lion Cross race, previously held at the Penn State Lehigh Campus, is being held at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center, otherwise known as the Lehigh Velodrome, on Saturday, beginning at 9 a.m. […]

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There are local bicycle races scheduled both Saturday and Sunday this weekend, but that is likely the last time it will happen until next spring.
Following Saturday’s Deodate Road Race, just northwest of the Lancaster County line, and Sunday’s Christiana Criterium, there is only one more road race on the calender for 2009. That race is […]

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The Snapper, the Millersville University newspaper has an articlethis week about the MU cycling team. The 15-member club has six who are competing with other East Coast collegiate racers on the road. Mountain bikers, BMXers and cyclocross racers round out the club.
Last weekend, senior John Poterjoy took fifth in the road race at The Blue […]

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Temperatures are in the single digits and snow is in the forecast, but organizers of Lancaster County’s bicycle races are clearly thinking of spring.
The Pennsylvania Cycling Association recently posted its calendar for the year. It includes 28 races within Lancaster or just outside the county. That number includes 16 races for Rich Ruoff’s recreated “All that is […]

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Local bicycle racing promoter Rich Ruoff announced over the weekend that he has redesigned the former RedRoseRaces.com website and he promised a schedule of races from his new company, “All that is Good.”
Ruoff promises to post a 2009 race schedule on Sunday on www.allthatisgood.org.
“From the Tour de Ephrata to the Tour of Lancaster County and […]

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