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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Regis Hampton, a bike shop owner in Floral City, FL, has been sponsoring a Full Moon ride on the Withlacoochee State Trail for years. I’ve done at least three of them.
Here’s his latest note:
The Withlacoochee trail moonlight ride will be Saturday, Oct. 11, at 7:00 pm.  Will start at the same place as always in [...]

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‘Round about July, Bicycle Magazine featured Harry’s Hundred, the training ride for the South Broward Wheelers Century Ride.
Harry’s Hundred caught my eye. Unfortunately, it was on hiatus for the summer. Alas, I have not yet knocked out a century for 2008.
Fast forward: the 24th Annual South Broward Wheelers Century Ride is darn near here: November [...]

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I picked up a flyer for what is billed as “An epic ride you don’t want to miss! The Big “O” Nov. 8-9.”

The ride is sponsored by the Florida Off-Road Cycling Enthusiasts (F.O.R.C.E.) The phone number is 561-684-8444. tom@thebicyclery.com is listed as the email contact.
I’ve been LOST for five years
I’ve been riding the Lake Okeechobee [...]

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It was time for a quick ride to the Palm Beach Inlet Friday afternoon. The temps weren’t too high and the wind was only about 7 mph out of the east. It was a perfect day to poke along shooting pictures for a future piece on Palm Beach’s Lake Trail.

Earlier in the day, I saw [...]

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One of my favorite quick rides is to leave my house in West Palm Beach, FL, and go south through some very pleasant neighborhoods in Lake Worth. It’s about 12 miles. (Fourteen if I go over the drawbridge over the Intracoastal Waterway to get what passes for hill training in Florida.)
When I first started riding, [...]

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Palm Beach Bike Tours regular rider, Scott Maulsby, completed the 2008 Tropical Triathlon in Lake Worth this weekend in 1:25:46. In August, he finished the Loggerhead Triathlon in 1:27:06, so he has improved 80 seconds in a month. Actually more and more on that later.
There was much controversy to this year’s Tropical Triathlon. The swim [...]

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This is the time of year when folks in South Florida stay glued to the Weather Channel and the weather sites.
We got drenched by Fay, dodged Gustav and are keeping our eyes on Hanna until it makes a northward turn. As if that’s not enough, Ike is due east, moving quickly to the west and [...]

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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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