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 [...]

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Healthy living diet and weightloss guru Lisa Griffis reminds us today that there are 4,000 calories in a typical Thanksgiving dinner.
That big number didn’t mean much to me until I converted those Thanksgiving calories into miles.
Thanksgiving Dinner is 150 Miles
A cyclist burns 25 to 33 calories a mile depending on weight (both self and gear), [...]

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A whole bunch of years ago, I rented a bike from Richardson Bike Mart (where Lance worked as a kid) while I was on a business trip to Dallas. Good folks. I ended up buying my used Trek 1220 from them.
Figuring I’d need to tweak it, I bought a Pedro mini-tool that contained seven fold-out [...]

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I don’t spend much time on YouTube, but one of the phreds posted this link to Missy and Shane’s All Around US Bike Tour set to Luka Bloom’s The Acoustic Motorbike.

Never listened to Luka Bloom before
I’m a folkie, but I’ve never heard Bloom’s music. I’m going to have to give him a serious listen. I [...]

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Portable wind gauge
Wind is a really big deal when riding the LOST, which is about 30 feet above the surrounding terrain with no place to hide, so I jumped on the chance to buy a portable wind gauge when I saw them on sale at Radio Shack.
It’s not listed on the current web site, but [...]

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Bro Mark sent me a link for what is described as a  Swiss Army Emergency “Piss-On-It” Battery.
This is an emergency 1.5VDC wet-cell battery. When you need it, you remove the cork, break off the little glass tube and fill it with clear water… Let stand for 10-12 hrs and presto, you got juice. I’m told, [...]

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That big stack of business cards that say Ken Steinhoff, Telecom Manager, Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc., lost all value except as book marks when I retired at the end of August.
I needed a new identity
I was headed out to speak at a telecom conference in October and decided I should have new business cards to [...]

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Mark Boyd, a phred I’ve always admired, has toured all over the world. Even though he’s a high daily mileage tourist, he manages to create journals that are rich in photos and descriptions. Too many cyclists get hung up on mileage, routes and gear, but Mark has the ability to capture the ambiance of the [...]

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Wife Lila and I rushed out to our front lawn in West Palm Beach, FL, tonight to catch Space Shuttle Endeavor blast off. The conditions were perfect to see the light trail come over the top of Helen’s house. (We still call it that, even though Helen is long dead and the house has changed [...]

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Earlier this year I wrote about how to adjust a Brooks saddle. I mentioned in it that I used a Carradice Saddle Cover from Peter White Cycles to protect it.
You don’t normally see cows standing around wearing raincoats, but leather that’s off the cow has a tendency to sag when it gets wet.
When they dry [...]

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