Category: Asides

  • Funny or Touching or Really Pretty Disturbing

    Bicycle taxidermy by Regan Appleton, via  Alyssa Alamurung at inhabitat

  • 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

  • LIVE Bike Tour to end bullying

    I’m happy to share some video with you of a new friend of the Hub.  May I introduce John Tre’vor (aka JT) who has started LIVE which stands for: Love, Inspire, Visualize, Experience.  After speaking in schools around Detroit he has decided to take his show on the road and talk to youth throughout the Read more

  • Friday Testimonial: Carlisha Johnson (04/05/12)

    Me and the Detroit Bicycle Community: The Story of Carlisha by Carlisha Johnson I got my first bike when I was 8.  It was a blue Huffy.  I was so excited to be able to ride it. I sadly was only able to about four times before it was stolen one night off of the Read more

  • New phone #, hours and reminder about swap meet!

    Hey ya’ll, I need to tell you about changes in our retail shop and then remind you about Saturdays Bike Show and Swap Meet. Retail Shop First off, we got new phones.  Thanks to the folks that donated land-line phones to us.  Now when you call the shop, your call won’t be dropped or missed 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Friday Opinion: Looking “Cool” (1/6/12)

    It is a new year and I’m back with more ridiculous things to say.  And apparently you are back to read these things.  Thanks for being apart of the Hub and check out the other info we have on our site.  Best yet, come out and be a part of what we are doing! So Read more

  • Friday Opinion: Give Kids a Chance (12/2/11)

    Friday Opinion: Won’t Someone Think of the Children! ***Just so you know, up front on this post, it is going to take me a while to get around to biking, but I get there. Trust me okay?  Also, like all “Friday Opinion” articles, these are my thoughts alone and do not represent the entire Hub Read more

  • Detroit Community Schools

    Hello everyone, As you noticed from yesterday’s post, there is a holiday this week.  That means that our programming office will be closed down the rest of the week.  So I may just skip posting a Friday Opinion piece this week to give you a rest from my ramblings. However, I didn’t want to leave Read more

  • Friday Opinion: Hand Turn Signals as language (11/11/11)

    Hey ya’ll, I spoke a little bit last week about having a “bike language” that can be different where ever you go. In America, we are “cyclists” while in other places you are simply a person riding a bike. In some neighborhoods you are an “environmentalist” riding “alternative” transportation while in another you are simply Read more