Palm Beach Bike Tours

Youngest son Adam and his co-worker, Scott Maulsby, have been talking up entering the Loggerhead Triathlon - 3/8-mile swim / 13-mile bike / 3.1-mile run - for weeks. Adam had been a runner for some time and had lived in our pool when he was a little kid. He started biking several months ago and [...]

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Several years ago I discovered that Florida’s Department of Transportation was making highway and traffic studies available on DVD for free. I gave them a call and talked with a guy who seemed really pleased that anyone was interested in their work, particularly to find good places to cycle.
Every June since then, like clockwork, a [...]

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Saturday June 21st 2008 is the West Palm Beach Tour de Bar (aka ‘Tour de Beer’). Previous years have had as many as 300 participants and ten pub stops.
If you would like to join the festivities, be at the Brass Ring Pub at 12:00pm. The address is:
200 US Highway 1, Lake Park, FL 33408
If you arrive late, head South [...]

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The Bianchi Talladega was the coolest bike I had ever owned, well with the exception of the Spider that I had early on. That bike ruled the neighborhood when I was on it.

But back to the Bianchi. I purchased the bike and got a good deal on it because I knew someone who knew someone [...]

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The weather was perfect in South Florida back in March of 2005, so I headed out for the Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail (LOST). (Temps were 63 to 74, but the weatherman lied about 5 mph winds, decreasing to calm. They were really 5 to 7, increasing to 7 to 10, by my wind gauge.)

About eight [...]

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I posted earlier about the East to West Coast (of FL) ride my kid and I did at the end of 2007. The total distance was about 180 miles over three days. (OK, we cheated a bit, too. When we got to the urban riding portion of the trip, we bailed. After all, cars and [...]

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I’ve debated for a couple of weeks whether or not to make this post, because it’s likely to be about as popular as kicking a puppy.
I’ve ridden my third - and last - Ride of Silence.
When I realized that it was getting to be that time of year, I turned to the Ride of Silence [...]

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My son, Matt, and I wanted to end off 2007 with something special - a cross-Florida trip from Hobe Sound, FL, on the east coast, to Ft. Meyers, on the west coast.
The weekend of Dec. 9 turned out to be perfect: cool temps with a strong tailwind out of the east. By the time we [...]

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I wanted to ride the south end of the Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail (LOST) to shoot pix of the muck fire near Clewiston. It was hot, so I didn’t head out until about 4:30 P.M.. Even though the forecast was for winds out of the SW at about 6 mph, I could tell from looking [...]

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My first century took about 10 hours. I can’t put my hands on my log book for 1999 right now to know the exact rate.
Looking back at the log for the 11 mph century in 2000, I see that I was slightly off. My rolling average was actually 11.6 mph and total rolling time was [...]

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