Tour Detroit 2006
Saturday, September 23rd was the annual Tour Detroit bike ride. The ride began and ended at Roosevelt Park in Corktown and travelled 35 miles around Detroit with a police escort and a Sag Wagon. The day was gray and the forecasters promised rain, but somehow it held off for the entire ride. Here are photos from the event:
On the way to the event... Note that N. Corktown is littered with old campaign stickers for Teamster political candidates. The Teamsters' headquarters are on Trumbull in N. Corktown, just blocks from numerous permanently stickered street signs. It's become an eyesore. Not to mention the Teamsters have lost 150000 members since Hoffa's re-election in 2001. TDU... Anyhow...
Back Alley Bikes showed up to help get some bikes in shape. They are a volunteer-run collective that promotes knowledge about fixing bikes as well as bike repair.
The event was police escorted.
Riders enjoy the riverview.
A menacing tiger statue doesn't stop these cyclists as they pass the home of baseball's Detroit Tigers, who are playoff bound for the first time in 19 years.
There were a few upscale neighborhoods on the route. Here's Boston-Edison.
About halfway through the ride, we took a break at Fort Wayne.
Here is the coolest cop I've yet seen in Detroit. He's listening to his walkie-talkie at Fort Wayne.
Riders stop for a train by a junkyard in downriver Detroit.
The educational and organizing potential of this event can be better fulfilled in the future. Though the literature provided for some of the sites on the route was interesting, it was brief and people did not usually know what they were looking at as they coasted past. I'm going to ride around with a bullhorn next year or something...
Update: Plans are in the works for the route next year to concentrate on the eastern half of the city.
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On the way to the event... Note that N. Corktown is littered with old campaign stickers for Teamster political candidates. The Teamsters' headquarters are on Trumbull in N. Corktown, just blocks from numerous permanently stickered street signs. It's become an eyesore. Not to mention the Teamsters have lost 150000 members since Hoffa's re-election in 2001. TDU... Anyhow...
Back Alley Bikes showed up to help get some bikes in shape. They are a volunteer-run collective that promotes knowledge about fixing bikes as well as bike repair.
The event was police escorted.
Riders enjoy the riverview.
A menacing tiger statue doesn't stop these cyclists as they pass the home of baseball's Detroit Tigers, who are playoff bound for the first time in 19 years.
There were a few upscale neighborhoods on the route. Here's Boston-Edison.
About halfway through the ride, we took a break at Fort Wayne.
Here is the coolest cop I've yet seen in Detroit. He's listening to his walkie-talkie at Fort Wayne.
Riders stop for a train by a junkyard in downriver Detroit.
The educational and organizing potential of this event can be better fulfilled in the future. Though the literature provided for some of the sites on the route was interesting, it was brief and people did not usually know what they were looking at as they coasted past. I'm going to ride around with a bullhorn next year or something...
Update: Plans are in the works for the route next year to concentrate on the eastern half of the city.
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Labels: Bike Rides, Corktown, Detroit
posted by frequency13 at 7:13 PM
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As a supporter of the teamster local, I must correct Dan's view of the stickered signs. Everybody that votes, and sometimes not many at all, has to pass the signs and thereby will see the 4 blocks of campaign material. Instead of wasting limited resources on radio, television or other types of media strategies - the stickers do the work for much cheaper. Plus stickitti is the new way to go in urban art/warfare.
Alright, teamster supporter, I'll admit that it's better than the irritating advertising of the MRCC, but "urban art/warfare" ought to be a lot more radical than promoting Jimmy Hoffa Jr. and his fat-cat friends.
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