If you lived here, you’d be home now

Americans should be ashamed that one of our biggest cities looks like this. (These are a couple of shots of Cass Avenue).

I am about to write a big rant about this. In the meantime, think what the billions we’re pouring into Iraq (and rebuilding its infrastructure) could do to help our own cities.
Come on, Senator [...]

Belle Isle Loop

I took a spin around Belle Isle on Saturday. (In addition to normal TDH stuff). The island’s getting ready for the CART race (I think it’s still called that), and has bleachers and concrete barriers posted gaily around the island’s south end. There were tons of family reunions going on, though no relatives of misterarthur [...]

S.O.S.S.

It was Super Old Skool Saturday on the TDH. One of my regular tires, a Schwalbe Marathon Slick, sprang a leak Friday night, and was flat Saturday morning. These tires are normally bullet proof, but something slashed the sidewall.
So I put on my 30 year old Campagnolo Record Low Flange Hubbed, Mavic Monthlery rimmed, tubular [...]

New gigantic pothole winner

You think your city has big potholes? Ha! Ha! I scoff at your puny excuses for depressions in the thoroughfare. If you want to see a big pothole, come on the Tour De Hood.  This beauty is on the corner of Lycaste and Kercheval, and is quite new. And large.  See?

Here’s another angle, showing off [...]

Detour to the Heidelberg Project

At some point, I’m going to add a detour off the TDH route map to the Heidelberg Project, a sui generis art project by Tyree Guyton. There’s all sorts of information online about it, so I won’t waste your time adding additional commentary to what’s already there for the looking.
I just love the Heidelberg Project [...]

Saturday on the TDH – Rail-to-Trail update

I brought my wife’s mobile on the TDH on Saturday, because I felt I owed it to my loyal reader to show some photos of the not-quite completed Detroit RTT.
Here’s the landscaping I wrote about last week.

I know it doesn’t look like much yet, but it will by next spring.
I rode to the ‘end’ of [...]

Well, slap me with a fish and call me a salmon ladder.

I have no idea what that means. It also has nothing to do with what I am going to write next. This morning on the tour, I crossed the former railroad tracks near 1300 Lafayette. Lo and behold, the promised rail-to-trail route is actually near opening. I sneaked over the fence for a quick preview.
I [...]

Back in the saddle again

Well, my ancient back has recovered from its annual spasmo-rama, and it finally stopped raining. Actually, it was a beautiful weekend on the TDH. (Not coincidentally, it’s the debut weekend of the TDF, too. There was no sign of the Caisse D’Epargne teams or Alejandro Valverde (fig. 1) in the Maillot Jaune, ‘though I did [...]