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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That was the common graffiti in St. Louis gas station restrooms in the 60s, when the solution to pollution was dilution and raw sewage was pumped directly into the Mississippi River to become someone else’s problem downstream.
Cape Bicycle worked magic
The good folks at Cape Bicycle dug through their shelves and came with a replacement left [...]

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I mentioned that my mother and I journeyed down Highway 61 while scouting out the New Madrid Earthquake bike route.
On the way south, we looked for a piece of property that my dad’s construction company owned in the late 50s.
Dad BUILT Route W
Steinhoff, Kirkwood and Joiner built roads and bridges all over Southeast Missouri in [...]

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I was planning our vacation trip back to Missouri and was trying to see if we were going to run into any shortages on the way when I stumbled onto this interactive map of gas prices.
You’ll have to drag the map to the left to clear the legend. You can drill right down to your [...]

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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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My friend Jan Norris called this morning to tell me that Paul Newman had died. “One of his most famous scenes was his bike ride in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” she reminded me.
And, indeed, it was. You can see it here. Maybe I didn’t remember the bike part as much in those days [...]

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According to VeloNews, Lance Armstrong will be back next year with the Astana team. Their anonymous source says he will compete in these events…

Amgen Tour of California
Paris-Nice
Tour de Georgie
Dauphine-Libre
Tour de France

I can’t say that I’m surprised that he is racing again. I always figured he’d do some smaller races. What really has me shocked is [...]

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I have a bad feeling about Ike.
Like my kid, Matt, said. “The projected track is right down my driveway.”
There’s still time for it to turn, but we’re right in the center of the cone when it’s in the Bahamas on Tuesday. To make things worse, we were planning on heading to Memphis on Wednesday to [...]

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Long-time Palm Beach Post Food Editor Jan Norris retired on August 12 and wasted no time in going right back to work.
She was up until the wee hours of the morning creating a blog that anyone who is interested in food, Florida facts and fun stuff will love to read. I happened to wake up [...]

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While we prefer the high-tech approach to bicycle touring, others still prefer to take off for parts unknown with just a compass, map and a wool cycling jersey.
For those who insist on cycling without a GPS (and 11 pounds of batteries), we have great new research to report: cows point north.
Researchers scoured Google Earth for [...]

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