February 2012
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January 2012
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Colony x Vans Adelaide Trip Video
Promoting its impending sneaker collection releasing in March, Australian bike manufacturer, Colony, and Vans pulled together a group of riders in early December 2011 for a five-day session. Featuring names like Mick Bayzand, Alex Hiam, Cooper Brownlee, Ryan Guettler, Zac Miner, Tom Stretton, Brock Olive, Valvo and Clint Millar, the team of daredevils take to...
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Vote For Downtown Ferndale Bike Shop!!!
downtownferndalebikeshop:
Detroit’s HOUR magazine is hosting their 2012 BEST-OF
Vote for the Downtown Ferndale Bike Shop best place to buy a bicycle!
The ballot is open until March 15th Vote Here
December 2011
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I look at this site EVERYDAY!!! →
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Cycling to Gender Equality in India
Photo by McKay Savage
By Steph Albano
During America’s first bicycle boom in the 1890s, women who took to the saddle found the experience liberating. On a bike, women were equal with men, and their clothing and employment opportunities soon reflected this parity. In fact, Susan B. Anthony wrote that bicycles had “done more to emancipate women than...
November 2011
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80-Year-Old Metro Detroit Man Competes In Bike Race
SHELBY TOWNSHIP (WWJ) – He’s getting up there in age, but he refuses to let it slow him down. A Shelby Township man is about to take the ride of his life as he competes in the biggest single-day race that’s held right here in Michigan.
At 80 years old, Antoon Huyghe is a force to be reckoned with.
“There’s not that many people riding at...
October 2011
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Bikes and Movies & The Wolverine Sports Club...
In late October, 2009 the Wolverine Sports Club presented the world premier of Richard Noiret’s epic documentary about the golden era of the Wolverine Sports Club and our long-time beloved coach, Mike Walden. The premier was followed by a second showing two weeks later as hundreds of Wolverines flocked to the Main Art Theater in Royal Oak just a mile and a half from Mike Walden’s home to see this...
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Downtown Detroit and its neighborhoods really roll...
DETROIT — The Motor City rocks but it really rolls. On two wheels.
Pedal power is surprisingly big, and it’s growing in Detroit. And, no, bicyclists don’t have to speed to get away from roving gangs. That image of violent Detroit won’t die.
There’s a lot going on in Detroit, including its downtown casinos, the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Henry Ford Museum/Greenfield Village in nearby...
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Detroit becoming friendlier to bicyclists
More than 40 miles of bike lanes help riders get around
Calvin Men/ The Detroit News
Ten years ago, Todd Scott knew every bicyclist in Detroit.
“There just weren’t that many people out there. If a group went by, you knew all of them,” he said. “Nowadays, I go past groups of 30 or 40 people on bikes where I don’t know...
September 2011
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BELIEVE IN THE BIKE
There have been a lot of changes in the Detroit as of late, among which has been an increase in bicyclists around the city. Frankly it’s a trend that can be found in any other major city as well, likely the result of increased energy prices and self-health awareness. But in Detroit of all places it would seem this lifestyle would never really take root. It is after...
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Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle →
Online gamers have achieved a feat beyond the realm of Second Life or Dungeons and Dragons: they have deciphered the structure of an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus that had thwarted scientists for a decade.
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Were so excited to be provide the Bike tours for this years festival. Look around and see whats going down.
(posted by Jason)
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'Cyclepedia': A New Book Looks at the Beauty of...
It’s no secret I’m a longtime lover of the two-wheel life. Now, a new book brings two of my great passions — bikes and design — together with such poise and passion that it’s hard not to swoon.Cyclepedia: A Century of Iconic Bicycle Design is part heartfelt homage to the beauty of the bicycle, part museum of notable bike innovations, channeled by Vienna-based...
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SO proud of my hometown. Safest place during a... →
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