Potholes and Road Apples

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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In case you missed it in Saturday’s Intelligencer Journal, there was a feature article on bike-racer-turned-homeless-addict-turned-bike-racer-again Chad Gerlach. He was in town for Saturday’s Race Avenue Criterium and using the Lancaster race as a warm up to Sunday’s Philadelphia International championship race.
At the criterium Saturday, Gerlach, of the Amore Vita Professional Cycling Team, was narrowly edged out of […]

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Lancaster County native Floyd Landis will be home, or at least in the area this weekend. He is arguably the biggest name racing in Sunday’s TD Bank Philadelphia Championship race.
Landis, who lives in Southern California, is back racing this year with his OUCH Pro Cycling Team after a two-year, well-chronicles hiatus from the sport.
The 114-mile men’s […]

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Organizers of Altoon’s stage race, the International Tour de ‘Toona, became the latest to shelve race plans for this year. On Friday, it was announced that the race will not be held this year. Plans call for a revival of the race in 2010.
“I’m very disappointed that we had to postpone this year’s race, but, […]

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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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Racers can choose to do a criterium, a road race or both in Lancaster County this weekend.
On Saturday, there will be the inaugural Smoketown Airport Crit, presented by the International Christian Cycling Club and Shirks Racing presented by Trek Bikes. The first group, Category 5 racers, begin at 8:15 a.m. Online registration for the race […]

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Altoona’s Tour de ‘Toona is the latest race threatened with cancellation due to a lack of sponsorship dollars, the Altoona Mirror is reporting today.
Organizers are now weighing whether to cancel the four days of racing now planned for July 16-19, but are holding out for one major sponsor. If cancelled, the Altoona race will join a list […]

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The professional race in Philadelphia is on, but organizers say they still can’t do it without help. The Pro Cycling Tour, the promoters of the TD Bank Philadelphia International Cycling Championship race on June 7, are asking for volunteers to serve as course marshals, stage crew, foreign language interpreters, hospitality, marketing and public relations assistants […]

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The 10th annual Turkey Hill Country Classic bicycle races will be held Saturday, beginning with the pro/elite level race at 10:20 a.m.
According to BikeReg.com, there are 375 riders pre-registered for the six different race categories. Same-day registration will be available to the master’s categories and the pro/elite race. Other categories are full.
In addition to the […]

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