Category: Events

  • Kick Off Garage Sale

    Back Alley Bikes is having its first Garage Sale of 2021. Its Saturday, March 27th from noon to 6pm. We have over 200 uses bikes to sell! Prices range start at just $25 for singlespeeds. We have mountain bikes, road bikes, Classic Schwinns, beach cruisers and city commuters — a few even have disc brakes. 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

  • 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

  • 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