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Our approach to biking in the city is based upon a ‘Mountian Bike/Naturlistic’ tact. Unlike the other groups or nonprofit organizations that we have encountered, we sought out and developed routes that embraced and reflect the path least-traveled. To that end, we did not seek to commingle routes, in typical bike lane fashion, along primary automobile avenues which force people to be some 2-3′ away from what doesn’t work. In our opinion getting away from cars is the approach that has always felt the best and in turn creates a greater opening for people to feel and share.

Numerous woodland trails, bike paths, sidewalks, and rarely used roads have been explored and mapped out for everyone to enjoy. Our goal is to offer an alternative way of transporting people in and around the city while scoring a blow to the illusion and dependency upon the automobile. For the very thing that “made” Detroit has destroyed its sense of history and community. Numerous historic buildings and neighborhoods were destroyed and cleaved in half when the automobile agenda painted the town with ‘Freeways’ that needed more cars, so that we could get away from it all. Sadly what we left behind was our history and sense of community. Maybe it’s time to hold Detroit as a reflection in the cup of our own perception.

Our bike routes bring people in contact with the beauty that still remains. Glorious architecture and interesting neighborhoods are enjoyed, still alive and vibrant with a sense of community, history, and friendly people without projection.

We believe that perception, or what we see, defines who we truely are and what we feel, becoming our own version of reality and sadly enough for most of us, the only reality we ever experience. We believe that we have all been forced to see from our automobiles the dirty highway transitions that lead in and out of the city. The media has also aided in this projection of a “dirty Detroit” by force feeding us for years the Dilapidating and burned out images of our beloved city.

Our aim is to change all forms of prejudice, notions, and beliefs, allowing for the transformation of our perception to ensue. Then we may become artists, painting a new and beautiful scene, of how we would like the canvas called Detroit to become.

Mesmerized by commercials, and road side blazing well-lit banners we allow ourselves to think that those images tell us how our life should be. Those images force us to see Automobiles as a sex symbols, stay in your car, burn more fossil fuel, enjoy a drive through lifestyle of consuming fast food, ending up empty, fat, and out of shape with a different type of gas in your over sized tank. Pushing us, always moving too fast, and missing the moment, we are caught up in a materialistic paradigm projections of outright deception, telling us of how are lives should be.

While we are at it, let’s get rid of the trolley, the trains, and mass transit too, that way they will all need something shiny and new! And while we are at it, let us create a new type of urban sprawl, and why not the invention of the mall? Northland the first of its kind, forget the down town center and the five and dime … Welcome to Detroit’s version of how the world is going to be, Australia done first, yea you next China.

Maybe how we hold the city to be is nothing more than the reflection in the cup of our own perception. Hey man isn’t that narcissism in that direction? I heard that selflessness was a heavenly direction, a beautiful reflection, true without deception.

Perhaps the Holy Grail really is the chalice of life that we hold it to be? Maybe it is our own view that really counts. With this in mind, maybe we are the cup itself. As we begin our rides around town, we can pour our love for the city, along with the love in our hearts out like a stream. With deep breathing, we apply it to the moment, with all good will, force, and intent, opening up for everyone to take a sip and see. Maybe we all are doorways to a similar dream … ? “Bike riding in Detroit for me is about feeling good to the world around me while I deconstruct myself.”

Discovering the city of Detroit and its scattered remnants of history can lead us to the conclusion that beauty is where we see it and not if and where we find it. As we open up our hearts, what is brought to bear is our own stream of will that changes our perception-based reality. The beauty of it all is us, the energy, the view, and the feelings that we all bring to our beloved city.

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