News & Events

  • Calling all phones

    Hello everyone, Every once in a while our retail shop seems to have some phone troubles. Our phone system is internet based which isn’t bad, but you get what you pay for and we haven’t paid much. To fix this problem it looks like we are going to get land-line telephone service. So does anyone Read more

  • We are going to the Big Bike City!

    Hey everyone, Consider this your first warning. We will be going to the Detroit Bike City Show and Swap Meeting on Saturday, March 24th. We’ll be doing a few activities for all ages. The organizers of the event are working hard to make it family friendly and asked us to help with that. So hopefully Read more

  • Flash from the very recent past (last month)

    Hey everyone, Last month James and I got to go out to Cody High School on the West Side to hang out with the students there during their Literacy Night event. We played B.I.K.E.O. (BINGO with bike parts), passed out permission slips and donated a bike to be raffled off. We have had a student Read more

  • Work day on the horizon (3/2/12)

    Hey Ya’ll, So it is March. In the words of Jack VanDyke, “Wasn’t February just long?” The longest I’ve seen in four years. Anyway, things are beginning to change around here. To get us ready for all of our plans we will be doing some super fun spring cleaning. So mark your calendars for Saturday, Read more

  • Media Update (2/24/12)

    Hey ya’ll, I don’t have much for you today, but I wanted to share some media with you. First we have a bunch of photos (from 2002-2008) that were shared with us from one of the first collective members at Back Alley Bikes – Bec Young.  You can find those photos at our picasa photo Read more

  • Opinion and Profile articles on hiatus (2/20/12)

    Last week I wrote an update on Friday which ended telling everyone to “take February off”. I need to explain that phrase more.  What I mean by that is take a break from the “opinion” and “profile” articles I’ve been writing at the site.  Everything at the shop is continuing to move forward.  However, I Read more

  • Friday Wrap Up (2/17/12)

    Alright, So once again I’m denying you that profile you want to read.  A big thanks goes out to Carolyn who wrote the first Detroit cyclist profile.  I will not let you down though, I promise you that I have one in the works.  I’ve been talking to my friend Thomas and in his words, Read more

  • Benefit Show Tomorrow (Friday)!!

    Reminder to ya’ll that there will be a benefit concert in our Back Alley Bikes space tomorrow (Friday) night starting at 8pm.  It is gonna be great.  Make sure you know how to find our back alley door. The show is NOT in our retail space downstairs.  Everything will be going down in our programming Read more

  • Friday Wrap Up (2/10/12)

    Usually you find some sort of opinion article or some else zany written by me here on Fridays.  Well this week got mixed up and I ended up writing an opinion article for this past Monday in hopes of having another profile for you today.  I spoke with a few folks interested in participating but Read more

  • Help us out by filling out a survey

    Hey ya’ll, Have you taken our Adult Mechanic Class before? Well, if you would like to help us out, we are getting more serious about evaluating our programs and making them the best in the universe and would like you to fill out the survey at the bottom of this page. A community organization that Read more

  • Monday Opinion: Guilt (2/6/12)

    It has been a warm winter. I could be some self righteous environmentalist and talk about global warming and the ice caps coming to drown us all, but I’m not interested in that. I’ll leave that to the experts. Instead I bring up this warm winter because many more folks have been riding all the Read more

  • Friday Profile: Carolyn Leadley (2/3/12)

    Welcome to the first of hopefully many profiles on the Hub’s website to highlight a different side of the “cyclist” identity that both stretches and questions what that identity means. As this first profile shows, there are those of us that think Detroit has a unique cycling culture that clashes with mainstream images. So let’s Read more