Potholes and Road Apples

Toyota-United’s Ivan Stevic spent Sunday night in a Lancaster hospital after abandoning the Tom Bamford Lancaster Classic because of difficulty breathing.
According to the team’s website, http://www.toyota-united.com/, the Serbian National Champion was sitting along the road when team director Harm Jansen spotted him before the half-way point of the 85-mile race.

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Professional cycling’s biggest scandal ended not with a bang, but with a whimper today.
The Spanish judge in the Operation Puerto investigation - which kept cycling stars Ivan Basso, Jan Ullrich, Alexanderer Vinokourov and others from competing in last summer’s Tour de France - dismissed the case in a ruling opened to the public on Monday, […]

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Through the wonders of the World Wide Web, I discovered this week that plans for an indoor velodrome near Valley Forge are not the only ones being considered in Pennsylvania.
Across the state, the town of Brownsville, Fayette County, is setting its sights even higher than the Pro Cycling Tour project in Lower Providence Township, Montgomery […]

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Local news of note for the spandex set:
*Lancaster Newspapers are reporting today that a Maytown woman has been charged with vehicular homicide in the Feb. 11 death of a bicyclist on Harrisburg Pike, near Park City Center.
Denise R. Hall was allegedly drunk - three times the legal limit - when she struck Michael Blankenbiller from […]

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Anyone interested in getting a racing fix the weekend before racing starts here in Lancaster County can take a drive this weekend to Philadelphia.
In what is being billed in a cyclingnews.com post as the largest collegiate cycling race in history, teams from universities in Delaware, New England, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington, DC, […]

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If I needed any more proof that I am not alone in thinking about the coming spring, I found it today.
Local race organizer David Butterworth’s http://www.majorleaguecycling.com/events.htm has added a second Category 5 race - with space for 50 riders -to the upcoming Strasburg Road Race on March 17. The first one, which I noted a few weeks ago, […]

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The Tahoe Daily Tribune coverage on Tuesday’s stage two of the week-long Tour of California includes references to two local cyclists.
http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/article/20070220/SPORTS/102200056
County native Floyd Landis, now living in California, was spotted in Sacramento watching the stage finish won by Argentinian sprinter Juan Jose Haedo.
Floyd, who won last year’s inaugural Tour of California, has been traveling with […]

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If you needed any surer sign of spring, check: http://www.bikereg.com/events/register.asp?eventid=3785
That is the online registration site for the Strasburg road race. Registration opened on Wednesday for the first local race of the new season. By Monday morning, when I looked, both the Cat 5 field and the Cat 5 waiting list were already full. On Tuesday morning, the Elite men and professional categories […]

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 The Spanish-based Cyclingpost.com website on Wednesday published a bizarre report, http://www.cyclingpost.com/rider/article_004276.shtml, that Lancaster’s own Floyd Landis and his former team captain, Lance Armstrong, will participate as a team in an anti-doping program “to prove that cycling is possible without doping.”
The Tour de France winners, Landis and Armstrong, and presumably other riders, would have their blood and urine […]

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This article first appeared in the Lancaster New Era, Tuesday, Feb. 13:
Bicyclist Floyd Landis will be doing a tour this summer, but it will not be the Tour de France.
Landis is writing a book about his upbringing in Farmersville, winning last year’s Tour — the world’s most prestigious bicycle race — and about the charges […]

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