Sunday, June 15, 2008
By Robert Dvorchak, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Not only will Eric Chrabot be riding into history this month as a member of the Pennsylvania cycling team competing against an international field in a first-of-its-kind race across the state, he’ll also be riding along with history.

His precision bicycle, made of carbon fiber and titanium, will follow in the wheeled tracks that Conestoga wagons made 250 years ago when the first primitive route was cut by the British Empire from Philadelphia across the primeval mountains to the Forks of the Ohio, the site of present-day Pittsburgh. Read more»