General News

Spokes for Folks

Back Alley Bikes and Motor City Mitten Mission (MCMM) partnered in 2019 to get bikes and locks into the hands of some of the most vulnerable Detroiters. Both groups saw this as a critical transportation justice issue and named it Spokes for Folks. Since then, scores of bikes have been given to adults and youth Read more
Last day to register for the Progressive Dinner!

Hello everyone, Have I beat you over the head enough with this Progressive Dinner yet? I haven’t? Good. Anyway, there is only a little more than a day left to sign up. Last year this was go time. We had about 40 to 50 people sign up in the last 24 hours. I’m hoping that 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
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
Benefit Concert #2 coming up!

We are going to be doing another benefit concert in February. See the flier for the show by clicking on the article title.
Winter Bike Give-a-Way Report (full)

Hello Everyone, You may donate a bike or money to the Hub of Detroit and think to yourself, “Where does it all go?” Well I’m here to answer part of that question. If you donate a kid’s bike (20″ or smaller) to us…we give them to kids! For years we have been rebuilding donated bikes Read more
December YEAB 2011

Hey Everyone, So we have been super lucky this year. This is the second year that we have provided Youth Earn-a-Bike year-round and it has been a success. Even now as December is beginning we have kids knocking down our door wanting to wrench on bikes which is a wonderful thing. Last month in November Read more
Retail Service Center (11/28/11)

Hey Ya’ll, It has been so much fun telling you about our great programming and ranting about bike politics each week. The fun has been so overwhelming that we haven’t really updated you about our Retail Service Center in a while. Well, for those of you that haven’t been here before in the winter or 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
Fender Bender Programming Change

Hey ya’ll, You may be familiar with a community partner of ours called Fender Bender. For a while (about 2 years!) they have been using our space on Saturdays for women, transgender and genderqueer specific shop time. Well I have good news and bad news. The good news is that they are moving into their Read more