Palm Beach Cycle Chic

bikeWPB · at 2:47 PM

We have a new Dutch bike member here in downtown (that I've spotted). Whoever it is really likes yoga on Saturday mornings! Other Gazelle owner - your bike is fab! Pedal on my friend. Don't run away if you see some creeper girl trying to flag you down lol I'm harmless I swear

bikeWPB · at 1:44 PM

The beach on Worth Avenue on Palm Beach needs more than one crappy bike rack...just sayin'

Proper beach cycling attire sported by local David with his vintage bike that also has a dynamo system.

bikeWPB · at 10:30 AM

First post in a series that will be all about documenting cycling in South Florida in the heat of summertime.

bikeWPB · at 10:49 AM

Sunfest is an annual music festival on Downtown West Palm Beach's waterfront, the largest in the state, and it attracts thousands of people into the area. This year I volunteered at the Bike Valet, sponsored by the DDA, and had a great time at the event! This year was also the first that they brought Life in Color to Sunfest, basically a mini Ultra-like DayGlow paint party that ended at 11pm and ended with throngs of paint-splattered kids descending upon Clematis and washing their clothes in our fountains. Hope they are right about the paint being environmentally-friendly (and drainage friendly). My friend Melissa joined me with her rad bike!

Fireworks from our balcony

And the last laugh of the night

bikeWPB · at 2:56 PM

Like any university, FAU in Boca is filled with students on two wheels. While bike racks are overflowing, bike infrastructure leaves much to be desired. FAU could have created a system of protected cycle infrastructure around its campus when it was redoing its streets. Because the school is mostly a commuter school, they have built high-volume thoroughfares and then have had to deal with safety issues by way of imposing speed humps all over the place. Instead of really trying to quell the problem, they put a bandaid. I became tired of seeing students running across intersections even if the crosswalk signal said "walk". Upon building their stadium and new dormitories, they have slowly started to take away all of the wide swaths of parking that dominate the school landscape and have made it one of the ugliest campuses I have ever seen. However they are still a commuter school and have this tug-of-war pull between accommodating vehicular traffic and really improving the pedestrian zones. But they haven't addressed the cyclists who still ride on the sidewalks. There's incredible room for improvement if they want to fix these issues and roll back the commuter reputation and ghastly parking lots. The El Rio Trail that runs from the commuter rail Tri-Rail station and goes under the monstrosity of I-95 to bring students safely straight to campus without going on major arterials and taking a wide detour is the best thing they have going for them. They need more of this concept.

On another note, I am still amazed at the number of bicycles in Florida that do not have fenders whatsoever. Summer is the rainy season and summer is considered April - November. Geniuses. Have fun with all that.