Palm Beach Bike Tours

I was supposed to meet 6-year-old Malcolm this afternoon to ride home from school with him. I was running late, so I threw my Surly Long Haul Trucker on the rack and headed 12 miles up to his school. As I was cranking along at 65 miles per hour, I noticed in the rearview mirror [...]

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One of the members of the Surly Long Haul Trucker Google Group bought a new LHT. His LBS was having a hard time mounting the sensor for his Cateye V2C computer because it wanted to go where Surly puts the spare spokes. I sent him to a page showing how my Cateye Strada Cadence computer [...]

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Mechanical problems on the road can spoil your day. I’m going to hazard (no pun intended) a guess that flat tires are the most common ride-spoiler out there. Iowa Bicycle Coalition hosting World Tire Changing Championship I’m not a fast tire changer. I’m not even, as the saying goes, a half-fast tire changer. I can [...]

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I bought a Garmin nüvi 760 GPS about two years ago. You can read my “first impressions” review here. Not long after, I signed up for a Garmin nüMaps Lifetime North America Map Updates subscription. You can read about the installation process here. Several months ago, I noticed that the battery life was getting a [...]

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I have a friend who is a target shooter and a collector of obscure facts about firearms. He knows I’m a biker who loads his Surly Long Haul Trucker down with every accessory known to man, woman or beast. He sent me this illustration, accompanied by the comment, “This may not be quite as cool [...]

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