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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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 run with my NiteRider Pro 12E taillight blinking night and day. It’s the only LED taillight I’ve found that is visible in bright daylight.
The Pro-12E headlight has a strobing feature that’s designed (they say) to attract attention. You can set up so that the headlight is off and the taillight is blinking until you [...]

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When my Trek Navigator was getting ready to turn over 5,000 miles and before I bought a used Trek 1220 to replace it, I took a picture of all the accessories mounted on the handlebars.

From left to right:
Bell
Heart Rate monitor
Cateye Enduro Cyclometer.
Police scanner (I work at a newspaper and like to keep up with what’s [...]

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The NiteRider Pro 12E eats up a water bottle cage. I don’t miss it because I have two cages and use a 100-oz Camelbak for my primary hydration. If I’m going for a long ride in the boonies, I’ll carry a frozen spare bottle in my panniers.
I’m a long, slow rider, so I’m not too [...]

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Why would you need any kind of light in the daytime?
Drivers in Florida are mostly tourists who care more about the scenery than what’s going on on the road, Q-tips who can barely see above the dashboard or local folks who are angry and late because of the above (common bumper sticker: “When I retire, [...]

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I wouldn’t go so far as to say Vistalites are “very visible” in the daytime. I have one that I hang on my Camelbak and I don’t even bother to turn it on until dusk. If you want it to have any chance of being visible in the daylight, you’ll have to change batteries more [...]

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The best by far is the one from NiteRider. The only catch is that it costs $50 and has to plug into their battery pack, so you are going to spend $150 even if you go with the lowend Trailrat.
I balked at buying one until I followed one. It’s the only light I’ve seen that [...]

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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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Since the weather has gotten hotter, I’ve switched my riding schedule to the evenings. About four months ago I bought a Niterider Trail Rat for about a hundred bucks.
It serves me well on my nightly 12-15 mile rides, but runs out of juice when I want to go longer. My kid has offered to buy [...]

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