Palm Beach Bike Tours

[Editor's note: This is part of a series of year-end reviews of reviews I've written throughout the year.]
I have “friends” who claim that my Surly Long Haul Trucker is lit up like this 18-wheeler Bro Mark saw in a St. Louis truck stop last year.
I wish.
I love lights
Half a century ago, when I got my [...]

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There are some folks who think that listening to music while biking is unsafe or some kind of abominable crime against cycling purity.
I’m not one of them. There are days when you’re riding by yourself when the wind won’t quit blowing or there’s a long climb coming up or you want to have something to [...]

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I saw my first LHT in the wild when my Trek 1220 was at Cape Bicycle getting a shifter replaced. I wish I had put the money into an LHT instead of the repair. I really liked the LHT’s look and feel, but wasn’t sure I was ready to buy a new bike.
When I got [...]

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My Dad gave me the family Kodak Tourist II folding camera when I was 12 years old to take on our Florida vacation. Little did he know that he was going to launch me onto a career as a photographer.
Over the years, I’ve used Nikon, Kodak, Canon and Pentax 35mm cameras; 4×5 Crown and Speed [...]

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The most useful bicycle accessory I own is my Chuck Harris helmet-mounted mirror. (OK, I guess I’d have to list my Giro Atmos helmet in first place. Without it, I wouldn’t have a place to mount the mirror.)
You can read the complete review here.
The Chuck Harris mirror is made out of a piece of recycled [...]

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