Palm Beach Bike Tours

Ken Steinhoff spent more than 40 years in the ink-slinging newspaper business where he had a license to be nosy. Palm Beach Bike Tours renewed that license in his retirement years. The blog is ostensibly about cycling, photography and using GPS technology to figure out where you're going and where you've been. It's really an extension of his lifelong effort to tell the stories of "ordinary people doing ordinary things", which sometimes turns out to be pretty extraordinary. If all that sounds like something in which you might be interested, please sign up for the PBBT RSS feed to keep in touch.

I got into riding about a year and 3,000 miles ago. The more serious I became, the more I realized why cyclists dress funny.

In order of purchase:

• gloves
• shorts
• jersey
• shoes

In the non-clothing area:

• clipless pedals
• Camelbak
• Niterider Digital Pro12-E

I don’t ride fast, but I do spend lots of hours in the saddle enjoying myself.

Gloves offer more protection than you might think. I went over the handlebars onto blacktop in March. Every time I look at the rips in the palms of my right glove I am reminded of that brief flight.

The gloves also help with numbness. They are a worthwhile investment.