moving to detroit metro
06-15-09 | 05:29 PM
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I cant ride with ya as I now live in NC, but I did live in Detroit for many years.
Hines Drive Is a pretty nice ride. You can also enter off Ford Road just out side Dearborn, MI., before the Ford HQ.
Hines Drive Is a pretty nice ride. You can also enter off Ford Road just out side Dearborn, MI., before the Ford HQ.
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06-15-09 | 06:39 PM
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Wait, what? Someone is moving here?
From Dearborn, Hines is your ride when you have nowhere to go.
Otherwise one of the nicest things about the Detroit area grid system is that there are usually half mile roads tucked in between the main 50mph 5 lane mile roads. You can bike commute all over creation on mostly 25 mph roads.
From Dearborn, Hines is your ride when you have nowhere to go.
Otherwise one of the nicest things about the Detroit area grid system is that there are usually half mile roads tucked in between the main 50mph 5 lane mile roads. You can bike commute all over creation on mostly 25 mph roads.
06-15-09 | 07:06 PM
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Wait, what? Someone is moving here?
From Dearborn, Hines is your ride when you have nowhere to go.
Otherwise one of the nicest things about the Detroit area grid system is that there are usually half mile roads tucked in between the main 50mph 5 lane mile roads. You can bike commute all over creation on mostly 25 mph roads.
From Dearborn, Hines is your ride when you have nowhere to go.
Otherwise one of the nicest things about the Detroit area grid system is that there are usually half mile roads tucked in between the main 50mph 5 lane mile roads. You can bike commute all over creation on mostly 25 mph roads.
but yeah hopefully ill be moving up there sometime after aug
06-16-09 | 10:42 AM
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good riding in northern oakland county- fair amount of hills and quite a few rural roads to ride on as well.
06-16-09 | 10:46 AM
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If you need a good realtor for the area, PM me. I know an excellent one. He sold us a house in Dearborn. When we moved to Texas three years later, he sold it in 2 days. He helped us a lot along the way.
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06-16-09 | 01:22 PM
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FYA, here is a description I have posted to other Michigan cyclists of the riding I have done when I lived there and when I visit:
Some of my favorite short trips from Ann Arbor were out Huron River Drive to Dexter, or Whitmore Lake Road to Whitmore Lake, My very first tour, with no preparation, was a weekend loop out Pontiac Trail to Waterford, about 50 miles one way. Some touring we had done in Michigan when we lived there in the 1970's were: out to Port Huron and to Sarnia and along the the Lake Huron shore to Tobermory and on to Sudbury, then train to Toronto; through Windsor to Kitchener; to Midland, then through Saginaw to Port Austin and back to Detroit through the Thumb; and some short 1-2 day tours out of Ann Arbor, including to East Lansing and to Pontiac Lake. The only riding my wife and I have done in western Michigan was a round trip ride from Cheboygan to Mackinaw City, Harbor Springs, Petoskey, Traverse City and back by way of Douglas Lake.
Most of my riding currently when visiting Michigan is in Macomb and Oakland counties. When I have done some long training rides (> 60 miles), I have taken the bike to Stony Creek or Kensington and done laps as well as occasionally ride outside the park. Once I did a loop from Fraser (where my mother lives) down Jefferson, around Belle Isle, then out Woodward to around 14 Mile Road and back.
Most of my riding currently when visiting Michigan is in Macomb and Oakland counties. When I have done some long training rides (> 60 miles), I have taken the bike to Stony Creek or Kensington and done laps as well as occasionally ride outside the park. Once I did a loop from Fraser (where my mother lives) down Jefferson, around Belle Isle, then out Woodward to around 14 Mile Road and back.
06-18-09 | 05:52 PM
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I live just outside Stoney Creek Metropark. Its great riding there, its not far to the Macomb Orchard Trail or the Clinton River Trail. I've never tried it, but, in theory, you can get all the way to Pinckney from the CR trail & outliers.
06-18-09 | 06:14 PM
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