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 [...]
Entries from August 2008
Florida Food and More from Jan Norris
August 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: Cycling Food and Nutrition · You Ran Over What?
Lost on Your Bike Tour? Ask a Cow for Directions
August 28th, 2008 · 7 Comments
While we prefer the high-tech approach to bicycle touring, others still prefer to take off for parts unknown with just a compass, map and a wool cycling jersey.
For those who insist on cycling without a GPS (and 11 pounds of batteries), we have great new research to report: cows point north.
Researchers scoured Google Earth for [...]
Tags: You Ran Over What?
Toronto Bike Thief Steals Nearly 3,000 Bikes
August 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Does This Man Have Your Bike?
Coach Cane with City Coach tipped us off to this bike thief out of Toronto. If you have a New York Times login you can read their story about Igor Kenk for details.
In short, the guy was found with 2,865 bikes in his possession. Since his arrest, bike thefts in [...]
Tags: You Ran Over What?
Cyclists Slam into Driver with Road Rage
August 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments
If you’re a regular bike blog reader, I’m sure you have already seen this story about a doctor who cut off a cyclist and then slammed on his brakes so the bikers went through his back window.
I’d love to believe the bikers. I’m not so sure, however.
Bike Crunch in Boulder, Colorado
Earlier this year, I caught [...]
Tags: Bicycle Safety and Advocacy
Adam Survives 2008 Loggerhead Triathlon
August 10th, 2008 · 8 Comments
Youngest son Adam and his co-worker, Scott Maulsby, have been talking up entering the Loggerhead Triathlon - 3/8-mile swim / 13-mile bike / 3.1-mile run - for weeks. Adam had been a runner for some time and had lived in our pool when he was a little kid. He started biking several months ago and [...]
Tags: Bike Rides and Routes