Bicycle Bike Detroit Michigan



Berkley Weather Forecast, MI (48072)	Welcome to Bike Detroit ! Thursday Night Bike Rides ( May to October ) Join us on our bi-weekly bicycle ride on Thursdays. Helmets lights, reflective gear, water bottle mandatory. Speeds of 12 to 14 mph as the group determines. No first time riders. Please get your practice and tone locally in your own neighborhood before you venture on out with us. No registration or fee required ! Click here for more details. -------------------------------------------------- Tuesday Trail Rides June to October / Come join us twice a month for a woodland trail bike ride. We meet at Catalpa Oaks Metro Park ( parking available ) at 530pm. The park is located in Berkley on Greenfield road between 12 and 11 mile road. The rides will range from 20 to 27 miles. The ride starts from the park into the surrounding areas. No registration or fee required email us if you plan to attend Click here for the schedule ------------------------------------------------------------- Community is our goal We are a group of people who enjoy biking and want to form a community interested in exploring the Metro Area on their bicycle. We have discovered routes and trails that very few people know about and will really enjoy. We want to share our experience with others in an attempt to promote community. Our bike routes bring people in contact with the beauty that still remains. Glorious architecture and interesting neighborhoods are enjoyed, still alive and vibrant with a sense of community, history and friendly people without projection. ------------------------------------------------------------- Bike Trail Restoration We have done a lot of work in restoring this bike trail. We started during the winter with snow still on the ground and continued into spring. Click here to see the bicycle trail restoration pics. If you are interested in volunteering in our non-profit organization to help restore bike trails feel free to contact us. Check the bottom of all our web pages for phone and email contact info. In our modern day world we are quite literally driven to a state of disillusion, anxiety and despair as we rush nowhere, somewhere, over there, anywhere we miss the chance at now, where our will and force can have the greatest effect. Unlike the suburbs, south of 8 mile you will find a world that is friendly to bikes. Four lane/one way roads are rarely in use, affording the bicyclist a sense of freedom from the fear usually associated with the close proximity encounters with frustrated drivers of automobiles. In all of our rides and various travels throughout the area, a true sense of freedom can only be found in the city of Detroit, not in the big roads and busy streets of the “urban sprawl” neighborhoods. The energy/interface with automobiles south of 8 mile is almost non existent. The people who are in a rush are absent from the seen, somewhere north “chasing” their dreams. More often than not friendly pedestrians warmly respond to an honest hello. If you have to drive your car to ride your bike then what’s the point? There exist right now and are in place, wonderful pedestrian passageways that can bring riders and families down from the suburbs into the heart of the city. Passing thru forested trails, parks, pedestrian only and modern day bike lanes, thru historical neighborhoods you can arrive safely anywhere from Midtown, to the Water Front, Tiger Stadium, Campus Martius, the River Walk, Greek Town or Belle Isle. You are free to choose. Bike and See the Metro Area: We have spent the past 5 years exploring the natural path ways that lead into and out of our city. Can you imagine original stands of Red and White Oaks, Virgin Watershed Topography, unaltered by man? Or how about a second growth Oak/Beech Climax Forest stretching to the sky with open hands, or a wildflower meadow were you could lay down relax and touch the sky, remember when you were young and always asked why? Take a ride with us ... Can you imagine glorious competing cathedrals, speaking symbolic words of wisdom revealing the hidden mysteries for which sacred geometry was the only language used? Take a ride with us ... Or how about learning of Detroit’s greatest architectural period, and finding out more about what Art Deco means? You may been astounded by the conclusion the City of Detroit has more standing Art deco buildings than any other city in the world! Take a ride with us ... What ever happened to the Masons that made Detroit once shine, want to see what they left behind? Partly it’s the monuments, in historic cemeteries your find, Temples, Obelisk, Statues and Sculpture, all of grand scale, their silence symbolism telling many a tale. Or perhaps now that you have no car you can slow down enough to see the symbolic writing that was literally - left on the wall, the Masters true graffiti? Take a ride with us ... Or learning the histories of now empty buildings where brothels and soup kitchens sang similar tunes. To colonial influenced period homes for the officers that once lived at the Grand Old Fort, or the Kresge's original family home, king of the 5 and dime and founder of K-Mart Corp. Or original cobblestone roads and even street car tracks or Mr. Fords First Grand Scale Residential space ? Take a ride with us and discover this place ... Unique Bike Tours We are a group of people who enjoy biking and want to form a community of people interested in exploring the Metro Area on their bikes. We have discovered routes and trails that very few people know about and will really enjoy. These tours include Trail Tours, Family Tours, Historical Tours, Industrial Tours and more. Click on tours for more details. Note: Tours will only be official scheduled once we have received a minimum of 20 participants, money back guaranteed. Saturday Morning’s 7:30 A.M. departures, location and schedule yet to be determined. Bike Detroit Tours Bike Detroit Rides visit counter ..