News & Events

  • Save the date! 10/28/11 Benefit Concert

    Put it down on your calendar: Friday, October 28th 2011 – we will be having a benefit concert for Back Alley Bikes IN Back Alley Bikes! The doors will be opening at 7pm with music starting a little after that.  A $5 donation gets you in for good tunes from Sagan Youth, Jericho Offriguez, Petal Read more

  • Friday Opinion: Roadway Entitlement Politics

    Hey Ya’ll, We’ve been changing a few things up around here at the Hub.  As part of some changes we are going to try updating the website more often so it becomes a destination for you to check out on a regular basis. As part of that I wrote an opinion piece that I thought Read more

  • Progressive Dinner recap and what is next?

    Hello my friends, We took about 80 folks on our first Progressive Dinner by Bicycle event yesterday.  The weather was perfect, we were able to make it through Lion’s fan traffic (thanks to the guy in the pickup truck that blocked traffic for us taking that left turn into Eastern Market!) and the food was Read more

  • CANCELLED: Adult Mechanic Class this Sunday 9/18/11

    Hey everyone, We’re sorry to say that we have to cancel the Adult Mechanics Class this Sunday, September 18th.  The good news is that we are cancelling because our first Progressive Dinner by Bike event will be happening.  We had a surprising number of 87 folks register and we are going to need all hands Read more

  • Detroit News and Trans-Liberation response

    So recently the Hub of Detroit was in The Detroit News. I happened to be the one interviewed. I think often there is a frustration on both parties, both the interviewer and the interviewee, to connect accurately in a short period of time. While I do appreciate very much the time that Marney Rich Keenan Read more

  • Last week to register for the Progressive Dinner!

    So I gots a few updates for ya: 1) This is the last week to register for the Progressive Dinner.  We already have over 20 people registered which is great.  I know there are more of you that want to come. In the final week, you can help us advertise the ride.  Pick up some Read more

  • Visit us @ Hamtramck Labor Day Festival | No FB this Sat.

    A quick update before I take off for the day:   Come visit us at the Hamtramck Labor Day Festival the next few days! We’ll be there from 1-7pm doing some light on-call bike maintenance, selling some shirts and patches (for those pants we know you’ve ripped on your bike!) and also helping people register Read more

  • Keep Eyes Peeled and Circulate! The Hub is revving up for an online campaign next week to help extend Mechanics-in-Training Program!

    for immediate release: The Hub of Detroit Partners with G-Team for Mechanics-in-Training Extension Online campaign to provide work-extension for youth employed by The Hub of Detroit’s Mechanics-in-Training Program Detroit, MI – The Hub of Detroit (thehubofdetroit.org) and Groupon’s G-Team (groupon.com/g-team) announce the launch of a local campaign to allow Detroiters to directly extend youth employment Read more

  • Progressive Dinner (Sept. 18th)

    We just finished our annual Safe Streets Youth Ride yesterday.  It went amazing and I’m really thankful for all our friends such as the Mount Elliot Makerspace, East Side Riders, Avalon, Motor City Racing (a bike team we sponsor) and all the Youth Earn-a-Bike parents and kids. To keep this awesome momentum going I present Read more

  • 3rd Annual Safe Streets Youth Ride

    Wow that was fast! I just wrote an update mentioning the Safe Streets Youth ride being developed and now we have a flier that you can download and share with the rest of the world.  We also have an online registration site set up for the ride. If you go and register before Aug. 13th, Read more

  • Good News and upcoming events

    Hey everyone, So we got a new website if you didn’t notice.  We’ve been pretty busy at the shop working on bikes and whatnot so we haven’t had much time to advertise it.  So I’m taking this lazy Sunday afternoon to catch some of you up on a little bit of good news. We are Read more

  • Mr. Joybox Express, Bike Ride and a Band This Friday!

    My awesome friend Shane mentioned this ride to me the other day, and the super sweet route they’re taking around with the Joybox Express is going to stop by the shop on the back end, so if you can’t make it to the ride (information from facebook below), but happen to be in the Corridor Read more