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Landis has a team for 2010 season

March 9th, 2010 · No Comments

After a failed attempt to join Rock Racing for 2010, Lancaster County native Floyd Landis will be racing for the new Bahati Foundation team begun by former national criterium champion Rahsaan Bahati, it was announced Tuesday.
Landis, the winner of the 2006 Tour de France before being stripped of the title, will be at the official […]

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Roller Racing seems cursed

March 1st, 2010 · No Comments

For anyone who missed it, the Championship Roller Racing competition scheduled for Friday at Gusto restaurant in Lancaster was cancelled due to snow. This event was rescheduled twice earlier this year - once due to snow and once due to injuries sustained by the organizer after crashing his bike.
It was also cancelled last year. The […]

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Roller Racing?

February 24th, 2010 · No Comments

Championship Roller Racing may finally be headed Lancaster’s way, but so is snow - again.
The roller-racing competition is scheduled for Friday night at Gusto Restaurant, 335 N. Queen St. It was canceled earlier due to snow and before that when promoter Jack Simes suffered a serious fall. Now, snow is again in the forecast. Meteorologists […]

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Tags: Lancaster · races · cycling · sports

Landis charged

February 16th, 2010 · No Comments

French officials have put out an arrest warrant for Lancaster County-native Floyd Landis in connection with the hacking of the computer system of the lab that processed his Tour de France urine samples.
The warrant comes after Landis failed to respond to a summons issued in November for him toappear in France to testify about how his defense […]

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Tags: France · Floyd Landis · doping · cycling · sports

Landis racing for Rock, sort of, maybe

January 27th, 2010 · No Comments

Lancaster County native Floyd Landis’ future in professional cycling has been in doubt in recent months since announcing he was leaving the OUCH-Maxxis team. End-of-the-season announcements such as that one usually say to which team the rider is moving, or that the rider is retiring from the sport.
There has been speculation that Landis would go to […]

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Tags: Floyd Landis · season · professional · cycling · sports

Roller Racing is back, sort of

January 4th, 2010 · No Comments

Championship Roller Racing, in which riders compete to ride the fastest times for a set distance on stationary rollers, will be held Friday, Jan. 15, at Gusto restaurant, 335 N. Queen St., Lancaster.
Competitive roller racing, which was commonly held from the 1880s-1920s, was to be revived in Lancaster last winter but the planned competition was […]

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Maybe you won’t have to go to Italy to see the Giro

November 18th, 2009 · No Comments

A trip to see the Giro d’Italia may be less than a three-hour car ride if organizers in Washington, D.C., are successful in their bid to host the prologue and stage one circuit race for the 2012 edition of the Italian grand tour.
According to a Cyclingnews.com article, a proposal being crafted by the organizers of […]

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Landis no longer saying OUCH

November 17th, 2009 · No Comments

Momentum Sports Group, owners of the OUCH presented by Maxxis professional cycling team, announced today that they and Lancaster County native Floyd Landis have agreed to part ways.
The mutual agreement was to terminate the remainder of Landis’s contract for the 2009 season and the 2010 season.
Landis returned to racing in January after a well-publicized two-year […]

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Bobby Lea to join new Bahati team

November 5th, 2009 · No Comments

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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2010: Two Pennsylvanians head to Jelly Belly

November 1st, 2009 · No Comments

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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Tags: Floyd Landis · season · cycling · sports