Palm Beach Bike Tours

I recently bought a Brooks Champion Flyer, which is a B17 with springs. I coated it liberally with Profide and went riding. It felt fine out of the box.
I had some numbness issues (new bike), but they were solved not by the saddle, but by going with a shorter stem that kept me from having [...]

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Five of us rode from Key Largo to Key West in February.

If you’re talking about a serious touring-type ride, the ride TO Key West was enjoyable (the operative word is FEBRUARY).
If you want to do serious riding, Key West isn’t where you want to be. If you want to putz around on a rented cruiser [...]

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There are about three stop lights on my regular route that don’t routinely detect my bike. One of them is on a fairly busy street, so I’ll usually make a right turn on red, go about 100 feet to a median cutout, cross over and make a right turn to continue on my original path.
One [...]

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A kidney stone and hot, humid rides in South Florida were what moved me to get more focused on hydration.
The CamelBak M.U.L.E. holds 100 oz. I have sucked it dry on some rides, but I don’t know that I would want to carry any more weight than that. You can almost always find a place [...]

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