Potholes and Road Apples

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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The management of Pedro’s USA and a Swiss investment firm have purchased Pedro’s from Swix Sports USA, Velonews reports today.
Pedro’s which makes earth-friendly bicycle lubes, degreasers and accessories has been owned by the ski wax and ski pole company for a decade.
Chris Zigmont, a long-time Pedro’s executive, will become the company’s new CEO with the […]

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As the Monty Pythons would say “now, for something completely different.”
Lancaster County bicyclists accustomed to riding out into open spaces and finding small back roads between farm fields have an opportunity to do a different sort of ride. BikeNewYork’s annual Five Boro Bike Tour will be held Sunday, May 4.
The 42-mile ride starts at Battery […]

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Plans are being developed for recreational trails in East Hempfield, Mount Joy, Manor and along the Susquehanna River. And the River Ride, well-know to area bicyclists, is getting publicity and may eventually get signs.
In the news this week, the Lancaster County Solid Waste Authority is including a one-mile loop trail into plans being developed for […]

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