Potholes and Road Apples

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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The gates of the Valley Preferred Cycling Center, otherwise known as the Lehigh Velodrome, near Trexlertown, open tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. for the 7th annual Spring Bicycle Flea Market.
The largest bicycling-specific spring swap meet on the East Coast will include 120 vendors, including shops clearing out old inventory at greatly reduced prices and about individual bike enthusiasts cleaning out […]

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It’s not just you. It really has been a rainy spring.
Today is the eighth consecutive day with rain, according to data collected by Millersville University. Although we experience five spectacularly warm, sunny days around and including the last week weekend in April, that period was bookended by four days of rain and the rainy spell […]

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The local spoke, or chapter, of the International Christian Cycling Club has added a new event to the Lancaster County spring race calendar. The Smoketown Airport Criterium will be held at the airport, near Bird-in-Hand, on Saturday, May 16.
The criterium course will be unique. Riders will actually race on the airport runway. According to the […]

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Spring doesn’t officially begin until next spring, but the local road racing season starts Saturday south of Strasburg.
The Strasburg Road Race, formerly a Pro-Am race, begins at 8:50 a.m. under the auspices of Red Rose Races. Late Thursday morning, 330 riders were already registered to participate. The Category 4/5 race and the Category 4 race […]

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For bicyclists just burning to spend their tax refund on bike swag, I’ve got bad news: next month’s Harrisburg Bicycle Expo is off.
The Expo, planned for Friday and Saturday, March 7 & 8, at the Farmshow complex, has been canceled, promoter David Butterworth wrote recently. The event, which would have been held for the first time, […]

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With area temperatures in single-digits this morning and wind chill making it feel like 15 below, I will be forcing myself into the gym, taking a spin class and pining for warmer weather today.

Local race organizer Red Rose Races has provided a visual to help racers keep their focus on these cold days. Red Rose has posted a […]

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The first organized charity bicycle ride of the season will take place Saturday, March 22, in conjunction with the annual Sauder Easter Egg Run in Lititz.
The inclusion of a 10-mile and 25-mile bike rides is a new addition to the 16th annual event. Unfortunately, no information is available on the rides. The recently mailed brochure […]

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Lancaster County’s bicycle map, created by the Lancaster County Planning Commission four years ago, is due for an upgrade.
Lauri Ahlskog, the county’s bicycle and pedestrian planner, is compiling text changes to be made to the map before reprinting.
Among those changes is the deletion of the former Crank bicycle shop in Ephrata and the movement of the […]

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LANCASTER MAY SEE AMATEUR DOWNTOWN CRITERIUM RACE CONTINUE
The Lancaster bicycle race — a springtime staple since 1992 — is moving to Allentown in 2008.
The professional race, which brought racers from across the globe to Lancaster for the first leg of the Pennsylvania Triple Crown of Cycling, drew a meager crowd of spectators on Sunday, June […]

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