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.
Check it out here before the Music Police track it down.

Never listened to Luka Bloom before
I’m a folkie, but I’ve never heard Bloom’s music. I’m [...]

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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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