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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When I started riding before the Turn of the Century (that sounds neater than “in the 90s”), I wore a pair of cut-off army surplus fatigue pants. I wore them until my wife pointed out that they had become so threadbare that my privates were about to become publics.
About that same time, I was in [...]

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If you’re concerned about white lines on your face from your helmet straps, grow a beard.
 
Strange tan lines are part of the game. I ride in Shimano Sandals. They make for a really weird pattern.
 
Shortly after I started riding, I looked down at my hand on the keyboard and thought, “Wow, that’s an odd bruise. [...]

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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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