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 just can’t handle riding in the flat-back, neck-like-a-turtle mode. Couldn’t years ago, and definitely can’t now. I have New bar ends on my bike that project above and below the bar. The bottom ones imitate dropbars and I’ll go there if it’s really windy or I want a change. The top bars curve to the horizontal, so I can stretch a bit and lower my profile, also.
When I said multi-day touring, I probably should have been clearer. What I really want to do is multi-day riding in the range of 45 to 125 miles. I put it my years on the hard ground in tents, so I’d opt for plastic touring. I tend to carry more crap than I probably need, but I won’t be humping camping gear.

I live in flatland Florida, but I plan to ride in the rolling hills of the midwest. As a matter of philosophy, I’ve always figured I’d rather be a Peterbilt tractor trailer with lots of torque than a speedy Corvette. I’ve had more uphills where I wished I had a lower gear than downhills where I wished I had a higher one.