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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Jon asks:

I am in the process of interviewing for a position in Miami. I’ve always wanted to move from NJ to somewhere in the Sunbelt. As I’m getting older (I’m now 49), cold is beginning to bother me more. I’ve been trying to locate bicycle clubs in FL, but they all seem to only offer [...]

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St. Louis Bro Mark, showing little respect for his older brother, wrote, “You seem to have plenty of time on your hands now that you are retired. Here is my question: Nitrogen in bike tires. Good, bad, indifferent?”
In the springtime, a young man’s thoughts turn to biking. Of course, this isn’t springtime in the Midwest [...]

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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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Deeds asked Ken:
Ken,
I wondered when you started riding your bike? How did you get interested in bicycling?
Deeds

Despite the fact that my kids think my original bicycle wheels were carved from stone ala Fred Flintstone, my first bike was a Schwinn when I was about 13. I’m digging around trying to find some pictures of it.
My [...]

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