Bill Strickland Writer
Bill Strickland is a journalist, book author and editor whose work focuses primarily on the sport of cycling and is based in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, a community noted for the cycling culture fostered by notable personalities such as Olympic gold medalist Marty Nothstein and Bicycling magazine publisher Robert Rodale (who also founded the Lehigh Valley Velodrome). "The Escape," the December, 2011, edition of his monthly Bicycling magazine column The Pursuit, was named a Notable story by The Best American Sports Writing. Strickland is an amateur road and cyclocross racer, and rides for the club Kapelmuur Independent.