News & Events

  • Bikes du Jour, Shakespearean Run-on Sentence Edition.

    Less is more or less more in this week’s Bikes of the Now for Sale, as we deftly avoid an awkward question & ponder the slings & arrows of outrageous fortune. It’s all up there under the Sustainable Practices menu at Retail Shop Information/Bikes of the Now For Sale.  You’ll see some of the newly rebuilt bikes on our Read more

  • Want a bike instructor job? Check this out

    Hey everyone, So I’m about to show you a job posting.  We are working on getting an Earn-a-Bike program started in the Osborn Neighborhood in collaboration with the Detroit Eastside Community Collaborative as well as the Rails-to-Trails Conservatory and other groups. If you are interested, just email me (jason@thehubofdetroit.org) a resume and cover letter explaining Read more

  • Help us with our bike drive! (2/July/12)

    So you may have seen a post very recently about us doing a bike drive to make 2012 our biggest programming year ever. Well, if you would like you can help us out.  Say you don’t have a bike to donate.  Could you possibly hang a flier up for us?  You can download our Bike Read more

  • 2012 Bike Drive! (29/June/12)

    You may have read Jack’s post a while back (in May) asking for bikes.  Well, I’m back to do it again in a little different way.  Like any community organization, we are accountable to the “community.”  That would be the folks that come in the door as program participants or as program donors.  If we Read more

  • Bikes of the Instant, Arctic Crossing Edition

    Adventure, intrigue, lax sartorial standards & aesthetically pleasing shifters in this week’s Bikes of the Now for Sale, up there under the Sustainable Practices menu at Retail Shop Information/Bikes of the Now For Sale. You’ll see some of the newly rebuilt bikes on our shop floor. Or come on in & see them all.

  • Welcome our Mechanics-In-Training!

    Our Mechanic-In-Training (MIT) Program is a special one here at the Hub.  It is one where we get the pleasure of being able to hire a few high school aged youth to work in both our programming and retail spaces.  If we say we are about “Youth Development” this is where we put our money Read more

  • We are winning more awards!!!!

    It is nice when we get recognized by folks in Detroit for doing what we do.  Every once in a while you need a pat on your back ya know?  Well, we got another one and we are doing our best to let it go to our heads.  Just kidding, having over inflated egos drags Read more

  • Bikes of the Moment, Zombie Attack Edition

    Dramatic color in this week’s Bikes of the Now for Sale. Check them out!

  • Checking in with JT (16/June/12)

    I’ve only been on two bicycle tours before.  I’ve also gone on tours in a van with a bunch of musicians a few years back.  Both had their own way of connecting me to something completely magical.  There is nothing like waking up in a new town everyday for a completely new adventure.  You never Read more

  • Yoga Fundraiser!

    Hey everyone, You know us – The Hub of Detroit, your favorite non-profit bike shop and community center.  Whether it is shopping at our retail shop, seeing bands play in our education workshop, going on a progressive dinner bicycle ride or riding our Hub Sprintz! you know that we throw some really great fund raisers. Read more

  • Michigan Veterans Foundation (14/June/12)

    This post is a little bit late and I apologize, but better late than never.  Last Saturday I had a great time getting up early before coming over to the shop for Youth Earn-a-Bike.  I got up early so I could make it over to The Michigan Veterans Foundation for their bike ride. They were Read more

  • Bikes of the Now For Sale: New Tires, New Brakes, New Philosophical Underpinnings

    Our hardworking mechanics have delivered a new crop of  meticulously rebuilt bikes & they are beautiful. The bikes are beautiful, too. Whether you’re looking for a ride suitable for the road to spiritual enlightenment, or a dependable street bike to seek an answer to your own existential meaninglessness, we’ve got something for you. Come on Read more