Palm Beach Bike Tours

I was sitting at the dinner table snacking on a fresh mango off the tree in our back yard when I heard The Other Half (TOH) say something about finding some typos on PBBT.
I told her I’d give her edit access so she could correct them, but she said she’d just make notes and I [...]

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This month’s issue of Science News features an article on the Large Hadron Collider. The eight billion dollar collider is being used to see what the big bang looked like and to find out if Albert Einstein was actually smart.
Tour de France Above, Science Below
Science is all well and good but what caught my eye [...]

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Here is something I never thought I’d say: Did you see Sally Forth today? She’s planning on escaping her mother by bicycle.

Sally Forth has a bike and you should, too.
In the land of $4.25 a gallon gas, a friend of mine just bought the largest SUV he could find in advance of hurricane season. If [...]

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A telemarketing company (from 802-878-3477) keeps calling to tell me my vehicle is about to be out of its warranty period: eight times in three weeks. Every time their machine calls me, I press ‘2′ to be deleted from their call list.
Today, I decided to speak with them. The entire call took nearly eight minutes.
Vehicle [...]

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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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Phillip is headed to Chicago this summer to visit family. Phillip has 1,300 miles or so to go… On a bicycle… Pulling three fully-loaded trailers.
When I saw him sitting in the shade at the side of the road this morning, I had to stop and chat. I’m used to pulling my son around in a bike [...]

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If you want to start an argument on a bicycle touring list, ask the question, “Which is better panniers or a trailer?” The world is divided into two groups, trailer cyclists and pannier cyclists and each group is passionate about his or her choice.
Back in February 2002, on a ride from West Palm Beach to [...]

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On my way to work this Thursday morning, I saw Carven cresting the top of the 10th Avenue I-95 overpass. The fixed-gear tricycle he was on looked pretty beat-up but the trailer he was pulling is what really grabbed my attention.
His low-riding plywood trailer had two 12-volt car batteries, an audio amplifier, two subwoofers, two [...]

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I had a sneaking suspicion that an old geezer in a Rolls Royce was going to blow a stop sign in front of me one day, so I was ready to stop.
When I caught up with him at the next light, he had the window down actually breathing the same air as me.
I leaned in [...]

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