Anyone here from Detroit?
 

I'm lonely in the motor city.

man ... lonely in detroit and now lonely on the forum. i started a thread last week that no one responded to so i sorta feel your pain.

i lived near detroit for awhile and it stands to reason that the kids that live/put on shows at the trumbleplex would be on fixies by now ... that is, if they (and the space) are still around. it is the only "squat" i've ever been to that had a tree growing thru the front window AND DSL. usually its one or the other ...

I'm from Waterford... not exactly Detroit, but sort of close.

I've got a Surly 1x1 that's in the early build stages, it's my first singlespeed (as an adult anyway). I'm using a fixed/free hub... should be interesting...

i'm in ann arbor. i hate it; it's a dump. i know ann arbor isn't detroit, but it's w/in riding distanced, so what the hell. the 2 times i've been to detroit, i've enjoyed it. looks like the tigers might be not awful this year!

i live on the outskirts of bay city. i am, as far as i know, the only person in the tri-cities who rides fixed.

no not in detroit...

but you have a kick ass velodrome in your backyard!

i feel bad for you lonely brother, but not too bad...

hey hairy...what would have to happen to ann arbor to make it not a dump? i've lived here my whole life and am always interested in ways to improve the town.

I like Ann Arbor. It's one of the few places out that way I actually enjoy. Ann Arbor and Chicago, not so keen on the rest of the area.

less school would probably help my disposition. and can a brother get a snow plow, or what? it snows, no one plows, the cars pack it down, it turns to a sheet of ice, and it sticks around for a week or 2 until it warms up and melts and then freezes again and nothing really has changed. also, if you nuked some of the knee jerk liberals, that would be kool.

i don't know, maybe i'm just grumpy. (but if you have any power whatsoever in the town, please, i bet of you, a snow plow. or even salt would be cool.)

dan (large guy riding a black piece of junk or a hot pink nishiki w/ gears)

I used to live in East Lansing and work in Brighton, I actually just moved back to Jersey in Aug. I LOVED Ann Arbor, it was a change from the f'n boringness that is East Lansing/Lansing (I also worked at a motorcycle dealership in Mason, what a sh..hole that place is), although living 4 blocks away from MSU was fun.

Less school? Ann Arbor is what it is because of U of M. If the school wasn't there it would be just another Battle Creek, Jackson, or Ypsilanti.

I would be into moving to Ann Arbor if it wasn't an hour from Detroit. Yes..I said it. I like living right outside of Detroit.

So..do you Ann Arbor people ride in the Critical Mass there? I hear it gets a decent turnout in the spring/summer/fall.

the earthen jar. end of story.

oh, too, jerusalem garden.

ann arbor is not a good match for you, i fear. you might like texas, however. i've certainly noticed inconsistencies, shall we say, in the quality of the snowplowing this winter. but there's more to it than that, for me at least.

to unhijack the thread for a moment, i like detroit too, although i haven't spent as much time there in recent years. you know what we used to like to do on a summer day? go see an afternoon game at tiger stadium, smoke a bunch of weed in the bleachers, and then go get some enchiladas or flautas to go from one of the little places in mexicantown, not the snazzy tourist places, but the little places where the locals eat, and then go over to jefferson park at the foot of the jefferson bridge (where you drive south to get to canada) and watch the j.w. westcott deliver mail to the freighters. it was cool to watch that little boat snuggle up to the big self-unloaders, attach a line, and haul the mailbags up and down. did you know that the zip code for the detroit river is 48222? it is. sadly, the westcott went down with all hands a few years ago, having got a little too close to the stern of a ship, and caught somehow in the prop wash. tiger stadium is gone, too, although you can still drive south to canada.

It's the ambassador bridge!

the ambassador bridge is the only crossing from the u.s. to canada where you drive south to get to canada.

tiger stadium isn't gone. it's just not in use...and the city of Detroit still pays something like $400,000/year to have the grass on the field cut...yet they're ready to get rid of the belle isle aquarium because it loses them $500,000/year to maintain. makes me sick!

Us Windsor Ontarians are amazingly tolerant of our neighbours to the north. :D

I heard they were having little league and minor league expo games in the stadium, which is pretty cool imho.

[DROOL] Dreaming of coneys. [/DROOL]

That is one thing I wished I had done when I lived in Mi. I always wanted to drive into Canada from that bridge, but I was always told there isn't much over there.

Windsor's a pleasant enough little city. It's certainly more ped friendly than D-town. A coworker and I took the Windsor transit bus from Detroit through the tunnel (the world's only international transit route). It's quiet, but friendly enough.

Then we almost didn't get to come back.

Word to the wise: never try to reenter the country with a Colombian immigrant unless you're both carrying your papers. A set of Massachusetts drivers licenses are NOT acceptable substitutes either.

I'm a Canadian living in the U.S. with a greencard.

I like Windsor. It has a decent bus system and is much friendlier feeling than Detroit and the surrounding areas. Plus it's Canada...so it's inherently better.

duh...i knew that. where's my editor when i need her?

right there too. do they really keep cutting the grass? i'm sad about these threats to belle isle, too. how much do they spend on lincoln navigators every year?

baby! we used to play at this bar on congress, and on breaks we'd go up and a have a coney at the lafayette, and then go next door (the national?) and have another one. blissful heartburn!

Man, what is it with Detroit and Coney dogs, anyhow?

Coney dogs? Coney dogs? You got to try Packos down in Toledo.

There is an awesome coney dog place in Brighton near my old job.......
Its right off of 96 at the brighton exit, if your coming down 96 east bound you make a right towards the center of town. You'll see it at the corner of main street next to the cvs on your left hand side.

Good stuff.

My early childhood was in Warren.