Potholes and Road Apples

A widely circulated Associated Press report this morning quoted an official with Momentum Sports Group, owner of the Health Net-Maxxis domestic professional team, confirming the company is negotiating with Lancaster County native Floyd Landis for his return to cycling.
Team director Mike Tamayo, speaking at the Tour of Missouri race Wednesday, confirmed the talks.
“We are in negotiations with […]

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In Febuary, Dominique Rollin suffered on the front of a Tour of California breakaway for seven hours. The incescent rain, driving headwind and bone-chilling temperatures on Stage 4 led 18 pro riders to abandon the stage. Veteran Levi Leipheimer, the eventual winner of the race, told Velonews it was ”probably in the top three of worst […]

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It’s still cold outside, but the bicycle racing season is fast approaching.
The first big national race is the week-long Tour of California, which begins Sunday, at 4 p.m. Eastern time with 2.1-mile individual time trial. Check Velonews, Cyclingnews or the tour website for coverage.
This year’s tour, the nation’s largest race, will include 136 professional riders on […]

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A new U.S. professional cycling team was recently announced that will compete in the 2008 season. And Team Type 1 won’t be riding under the name of a product or sponsor, but rather a cause. Type 1 refers to a type of diabetes.
Team Type 1 founders Phil Southerland and Joe Eldridge both have diabetes. They set out to […]

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It was in 2002 when cycling fan Frank Arokiasamy was trying to follow the Tour de France that he first conceived the ambitious plans he unveiled this week.
Arokiasamy said American Lance Armstrong was dominating the race, but he could not watch it on television in the United States. So, Arokiasamy began dreaming of a bicycle […]

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 Can you do better?
Slipstream, the Colorado-based professional continental tean which hopes to join the ProTour ranks in 2009, is offering cycling fans the opportunity to design the team’s jersey for the coming year. The only catch: it’s got to be argyle.
The jersey will grace the backs of some of the United States’ best bicycle racers, […]

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Lancaster already has a professional bicycle race that draws racers from across the world and 15,000 spectators to the city’s streets.
Next year, it could have another.
Organizers of a new cross-state race are slated to announce their plans this afternoon at a state capitol press conference.
Local race organizer Rich Ruoff, of Red Rose Races, will be […]

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Native son Floyd Landis had an incredible spring last year.
He ripped into the early season races. He won the inaugural Tour of California in February, Paris-Nice stage race in March and the Tour of Georgia in April - when most cyclists were still trying to find their form.
If Floyd had sat up and done nothing […]

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