Palm Beach Bike Tours

There’s a thread in one of my favorite comic strips, Yehuda Moon and the Kickstand Cyclery, about bicycle helmets. Check out the comments. I was hooked the first time I logged in.
I normally stay out of the helmet wars. I confess to being irked when the first question / statement folks make when they hear [...]

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One of my staffers is headed to Tallahassee to move a phone system, so I wanted to make sure he had the address of a pizza joint that was recommended by local cyclist Ed Picolo when Brother Mark, Wife Lila, Kid Adam and Kid’s Wife Carly did the TOSRV in April.
Riding builds up strong cravings. [...]

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An Okeechobee, FL, teen lost his arm after he decided to go for a 2 A.M. swim at Nubbin’s Slough, which empties into Lake Okeechobee, reported The Palm Beach Post on June 23.
Not surprisingly, alcohol was reportedly involved.
Arm not saved
The Post quoted a sheriff’s deputy as saying that an 11-foot alligator rose from the water [...]

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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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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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