Potholes and Road Apples

A group of high school guidance counselors combined a working vacation with cycling this week as they made their way through Lancaster County visiting colleges. According to a New York Times report on the trip, the counselors visited Franklin & Marshall and Elizabethtown. The article is here.

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The Pro Cycling Tour officials allowed a Monday deadline to pass without making an announcement whether the 25th annual championship race will be held June 7. On Tuesday, PCT President David Chauner said that talks have opened with a potential new sponsor for the race. Chauner is facing a $500,00 funding gap.
According to a statement […]

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The Nashville Business Journal reported this week that Greensboro, S.C. and Davis, Calif. are the two cities of the short list for a new home for the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame.
That leaves Trexlertown out of the running.
Trexlertown, home of the Valley Preferred Cycling Center, formerly the Lehigh Valley Velodrome, had put in a bid […]

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If you are interested in making an off-season road trip, there is a mecca for the bicycling-obsessed in the Buffalo suburb of Orchard Park, N.Y. The Pedaling History Museum has a collection of some 400 bicycles that date from a wooden velocipede of 1817 to many high-wheel ordinary bikes of the 1890s and the chain-driven “safety” […]

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No one can accuse Mike Ridgeway and Lauri Ahlskog of thinking small.
In two weeks they intend to announce a big goal and start what they hope is a communitywide conversation about how to get there: making Lancaster “bike friendly.”
Ridgeway, the local bicycling advocate and founder of the Dream Ride Projects bike tours, and Ahlskog, the […]

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The Lancaster Intelligencer Journal this morning has a article on local bicyclist Steve Farrah, who rode  from the Pacific to the Atlantic with friend Joe Peko of Lewisberry.
After dipping their tires in the Pacific in June, they crossed the desert, the Continental Divide, the Great Plains and the Appalachian Mountains as they journeyed east. They survived New Jersey […]

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Ending nearly a week of silence, Red Rose Race founder Rich Ruoff has posted a lengthy account of the sudden demise of the local bicycle race promotion company, laying blame at the feet of the controlling partner and offering hope that somehow it can still be revived.
Red Rose Races had begun a phenomenal year, with record […]

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Lancaster-based Red Rose Races, the largest bicycle road race promoter in the Mid-Atlantic - and by entrants, possibly the largest in the country - has canceled its races for the remainder of the season and will begin liquidating assets, said David Butterworth, the company’s controlling partner.
Butterworth sent an e-mail Wednesday morning to riders who participated […]

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The Lancaster County County Planning Commission’s four-year-old bicycle travel map has been revised, updated and is now available.
The map, now on tear-resistant paper and with numbered bicycle shops, is available for $4 each at visitors centers, bicycle shops and at the  planning commission offices in Lancaster County Courthouse, 50 N. Duke St., or on the […]

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Students and faculty of Lancaster’s Franklin & Marshall College have begun exploring the community mounted on new blue and white college bicycles.
The mountain bikes were donated to the school by alumnus Michael Zane earlier this month. Zane is the founder of Kryptonite Bicycle Lock Corporation and the company’s chairman and president until its sale to […]

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