Lloyd's Tropical Bike Tour

06/07/2024

The king of the fruit kingdom is the mango. On my botanical bike tour you will sample many fruits, flowers, spice trees, coconuts and even nuts. This is what mangoes look like when they are perfectly ripe.
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05/15/2024

My bike tour is a botanical field trip. It takes 2 hours to travel 4 miles because I stop 20 times to sample fruits, flowers, spice trees and nut trees. I tell my people stories of my 50 years in key west and how it’s changed. I make people laugh the whole time. The fruit trees and flowers are vanishing as key west turns into suburbia USA. This 11 year old girl was completely engaged on the tour as I connected her to the true key west.
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05/01/2024

There are many moments you can capture on my bike tour like this cool couple with the cannonball tree but nothing is as beautiful as when it happens.
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04/10/2024

These are local bananas. They grow fast and produce a stalk like this. In the meantime this momma tree produces baby trees which grow fast. These bananas are sweet and creamy. You can peel them and freeze them to make great blender drinks. They have not been sprayed or gassed like the ones that have been mass produced. On my bike tour I entertain you and show the botanical wonders of key west.
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03/17/2024

My friend Lisa and her husband Dave are locals and came on my tour and brought a visiting friend. I like taking key westers because they are great advertisers for me. No one spreads the word faster than a resident when they’ve had a great time.
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03/09/2024

On my bike tour you will sample the most delicious tropical sweet almonds. On my next video I will show you how easy it is to crack them open with a half a brick. There is a technique.

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02/03/2024

This is the edible prickly pair cactus. I pick them using tongs and cut them open and give people a taste on my bike tour. Today I had a handsome visitor. https://lloydstropicalbiketour.com/

01/22/2024

I always have good use for someone thats 6 foot nine on my bike tour

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01/05/2024

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Lloyds bike tour of key west is a botanical field trip. This unique experience will lift your spirit.

12/31/2023

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Randash or Ron is strong, fearless and extremely talented when comes to world of coconuts. I open coconuts on my bike tour so I’m always on the lookout for these magnificent gifts from Mother Nature. Ron gave me a half dozen big fat young nuts packed with sweet water and meat. It was so cool that he configured a way to rig my scooter basket with other natural parts of the palm to form a cage to keep the heavy coconuts from falling out. Simplicity can be genius

12/18/2023

My office is the lushness of key west. Next to bamboo the coconut palm is the most important tree in the tropical world for human survival. What I do on my bike tour is tune you in to the many tastes and smells that surround us the go unnoticed. Come and see why you really live here or come to visit this tropical island. https://lloydstropicalbiketour.com/

11/26/2023

This is the old key west for me. Thanksgiving day at fort Zack . Good music, healthy food, good vibes, mellow trip, this was the way key was all the time all over the place.

11/23/2023

Frozen Spanish limes are the way to go

11/23/2023

09/23/2023

I like to show locals and visitors what they don’t know about key west. Not many know this fruit, it’s the Canistel. it tastes like pumpkin pound cake and they ripen around thanksgiving. Between storms and new homeowners they are vanishing quickly as well as our entire unique botanical diversity. Key west is robbing itself of being key west and shrinking the ability to do what I do. https://lloydstropicalbiketour.com/

09/18/2023

Conch shells and coconuts go hand in hand on Lloyds Shady Botanical Bike Tour. There are 19 stops to taste, smell, hear, see and get in touch with the exotic tropical landscape that surrounds us here in key west. I am the most laid back bike tour in the world. Out of all the bike tours on earth mine has the least exercise. When I tell people I offer a bike tour it’s like holding a silver bullet and a cross in front of a vampire; they run for the hills. My tour is a comfortable thing to do unless you can’t ride a bike. Take a ride with Lloyd and feel the real Key West. https://lloydstropicalbiketour.com/

09/02/2023

Lloyds bike tour is in color. It doesn’t matter if you’ve lived here for years, if you come on my tour you will have a whole new appreciation for key west. My presentation of this island is not for tourists, it’s for everyone. https://lloydstropicalbiketour.com/

08/23/2023

You can’t get anything like Lloyds bike tour on anything but Lloyds bike tour……..

08/19/2023

My bike tour is a slice of life reality show as opposed to some exercise thing. The tour takes place in the quiet neighbourhoods away from downtown and tourists attractions. There are at least 15 stops in shady places to sample fresh off the tree organic fruit, some you’ve never heard of. We pick spice tree leaves like bay rum which was used for cologne and get a good sniff. We stop for more aromatherapeutic moments and sample the amazing flowers of the cannonball tree and many others. I’m a comical person and there are quite a few jokes you might laugh at or maybe not. My tour is a health spa treatment. I can slice a piece of fresh aloe for a sunburn or bite. I will chop open coconuts for water and meat, and towards the end we even have a musical interlude with percussion instruments in a beautiful gazebo overlooking the ocean in an old fort transformed into a garden club. The easy going Bike riding is just the means of getting us from one thing to the next. Let me show you the real key west. https://lloydstropicalbiketour.com/

08/12/2023

These are Spanish limes or guinepas or mamocillos. We call Spanish limes in key west. I discovered the trick to eating them. Take them out of the tree and just as they are put them in zip locks or Tupperware or whatever and freeze them. It’s a whole different ballgame. No more slimy texture. It tastes like lemon lime Italian ices or sorbet. Sweet sour and tangy and totally refreshing. Now I’m going to enjoy this tasty fruit all year round. I’ll be treating my lucky guests this frozen pop tart Christmas week on Lloyds bike tour. https://lloydstropicalbiketour.com/

08/01/2023

The trees of key west have been what I show people for 30 years, the ones that are old, the ones that bare fruit, or exotic flowers and spicy smelling leaves, the ones that give coconuts and almonds. This is the chenille flower. it doesn’t smell much and you can’t eat it but it’s soft and fuzzy to touch. My bike tour is way more than a bike ride, it is a complete sensory bombardment. Please tell people about my tour. I am not a touristy attraction. I am something everyone that lives here should do. https://lloydstropicalbiketour.com/

07/29/2023

My tour is a show. I’ve always been an actor, comedian, showman kinda guy. I realized a long time ago that in order to be in show business you must live in the big cities. After the lifestyle I lived through out the 70s the big cities became a huge turn off. I did some local acting and comedy shows in key west but it did not satisfy me. When I thought up the idea of giving a bike tour in 1991 I realized that I would give a presentation that would be a show and I’m the star of it and my role in the show is being myself. For 30 years I’ve done this. I think my tour is the longest true reality show on record, each tour always slightly different. The words bike tour does not cover how I relate to people on the tour. I act as though I’ve known these people all my life like old friends or relatives. This makes the tour extremely candid. Sometimes but not often people might not expect such a way to give a tour and they can get disappointed but that’s the nature of the beast. Key west gets more corporatized and commercial everyday but I’m on a different path. We now live dependent on a smart phone and no matter how wonderful this contraption is it is also a trap. One of my many goals on the tour is to set your mind free of all of our attachments and be in the moment enjoying the beautiful nature around us. Take a ride on Lloyds bike tour and get a taste of a free flowing experience. https://lloydstropicalbiketour.com/

07/24/2023

Another day at the office on Lloyd‘s bike tour in Key West 

07/15/2023

The stars are in your eyes on Lloyds bike tour when I pick this beautiful star fruit right from the tree. This tour is like no other bike ride in the world. I am the urban forager that just uses bicycles to get us from one botanical wonder to the next.

07/06/2023

I have to say that a lot of things I do on my bike tour have nothing to do with a bike tour which makes it absolutely special.

06/06/2023

My fascination with with mangoes began when I first tasted one strait off the tree in 1972. these are Hayden mangoes and they remind me of the sun with billions of energy explosions blasting from its surface and they have that energy stored in its skin and flesh and seed. Mangoes are good karma. They embody all the goodness life has to offer. That’s why I’m the MAN-GO-CRAZY. I catch them eat them give them away, bring them on my bike tour and treat people from everywhere to this sensational fruit you can’t by in a store.

06/05/2023

Live on Lloyds bike tour: when the first mango dropped to ground May 1st I picked it up and when the last one falls the end of August I will be there.

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05/31/2023

Thais Jimenez is the young woman who painted this picture of BUBBA. Lori who works at books and books is bubba’s mommy and I’m one of bubba’s godfathers. Bubba likes me because I play my flute for him every sunset down near the coast guard cutter at Truman park, plus I bring him a big fat juicy bone once a week. I’m a dog person and I can tell you that this dog is the most chilled dog I’ve ever known. He even lets other dogs come over and mooch his treats as long as they are respectful. Bubba is a spiritual dog. Bubba is like Buddha. He has an air of royalty about him. He pretty much loves everyone and everything.

05/22/2023

My job giving a bike tour is to give people happiness with nature

05/19/2023

Joy is harvesting perfect tree ripen mangoes, joy is seeing the faces of the people on my tour when I share them.