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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This article appeared in Friday’s Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era: 
For 14-year-old Maria DeNunzio, her biggest dream was a nightmare.
She was the youngest and only female among 60 participants in the 15th annual Nightmare Bicycle Tour held on Aug. 8.
The bike ride covered some 177 miles and earned its name because it includes rolling hills, steep hills, […]

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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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For those, such as myself, who have done the 178-mile Dream Ride Nightmare Tour in the past but realized, in a cognizant moment, that they haven’t trained enough to attempt it again, organizer Mike Ridgeway is offering an opportunity for a Nightmare-like experience with less training, and maybe, less pain.
Ridgeway is offering a 100-mile Nightmare […]

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In a promotional gimmick in advance of the Tour of Utah, Lancaster County native Floyd Landis will be challenging Utah Jazz guard Deron Williams in a three-point shootout and in a bicycle time trial on Friday.
Landis said the last time he was on a basketball court “was probably when I was 15,” he said in a […]

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The Tour de France, the world’s most celebrated and watched cycling event begins Saturday with a prologue in Monaco. ESPN’s Jim Caple has a nice write-up on the Americans who will be riding in this year’s Tour.
Velonews.com and Cyclingnews have extensive coverage, including live online coverage of the stages of the Tour. Expect much of […]

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The first riders began the 3,000-mile Race Across America this week and unlike last year - and, hopefully, next year - there was no Lancaster riders registered.
Last year, Team Cycle Smart, led by local bicycling advocate Mike Ridgeway, did the epic race. Ridgeway said the two-man-two-woman team is sitting this one out. They plan to […]

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