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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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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Does This Man Have Your Bike?
Coach Cane with City Coach tipped us off to this bike thief out of Toronto. If you have a New York Times login you can read their story about Igor Kenk for details.
In short, the guy was found with 2,865 bikes in his possession. Since his arrest, bike thefts in [...]

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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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