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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Pedal clearance is another good reason not to hug the curb. I have one stretch of road where the curb height would be just right to pole-vault you if your pedal caught it.
You have been warned.

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About 50% of my riding is at night. I never count on just one rear-facing light, particularly LED lights, because they are highly directional. I have a NiteRider taillight (the brightest taillight made as far as I know) on the rear rack.
Behind it is a highly-reflective Slow Moving Vehicle triangle. On my Camelbak are two [...]

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I have been pleasantly surprised to see how responsive Florida’s Department of Transportation was when I pointed out two drawbridges that had “Walk Bike Across Span” signs on them when they weren’t justified.
When I explained that the signs sent the wrong message to motorists, they took one of them down. The other was changed to [...]

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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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I have a Niterider taillight mounted to the rack that I run in flashing mode any time I’m on the road. As soon as it starts getting darker, I have a Vistalight on my Camelbak that I usually run in solid mode. I also have a clip-on blinking button-type light on the back of my [...]

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I got into riding about a year and 3,000 miles ago. The more serious I became, the more I realized why cyclists dress funny.
In order of purchase:

gloves
shorts
jersey
shoes

In the non-clothing area:

clipless pedals
Camelbak
Niterider Digital Pro12-E

I don’t ride fast, but I do spend lots of hours in the saddle enjoying myself.
Gloves offer more protection than you might think. [...]

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I normally stay out of the helmet wars, I’d like to bring up a point that I think about every once in a while.
I spent most of my life as a newspaper photographer, so I had the opportunity to shoot life’s ironies: the smashed-up car in front of the church billboard, “Get Closer with God,” [...]

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