Why pick PALM to ride?

If you are going to do a week long bike ride, why should you pick PALM?

For one, PALM is within reach physically for almost every bike rider. The average daily distance for PALM this year is 50 miles (last year it was 45 miles), not 75 miles. You don't have to be an athlete to do PALM. You just need to be in pretty good bike shape. We offer longer daily routes (that are SAGed, marked, and for which we have maps), even a century, but you don't have to do them.

PALM is affordable. An adult registration is $95. This is cheapest week long bike tour around. (Meals are extra, but optional: $5 for breakfast, $9 for dinner. You pick the meals you want.) Registration for riders under 18 is even less: $60 for riders 11 - 17, $ 50 for riders under 11. We can do this because our staff is all volunteer and PALM is nonprofit.

PALM is for people of all ages. If you check on our web site you will see that we have people of all ages and in numbers. We encourage families. Last year we had four generations of the same family on the ride, all on their own bikes.

This year will be the 26th annual PALM. While 35% of our riders are doing PALM for the first time, another 35% have done PALM 5 or more times. We must be doing something right.