Short and long, tough and easy, Wheelhouse offers a variety of guided tours for cyclists of all abilities and stamina level. What’s your interest? Detroit architecture...public art...automotive heritage...Eastern Market or other neighborhood excursions...dining tours...We can even craft a custom tour for your business or family!
We design many of our neighborhood tours in concert with a community partner organization. This way, we can be sure that the most accurate -- and interesting -- information can be shared with our riders. Community partners also receive a portion of our tour proceeds, so your money is going back into the neighborhood you've visited!
Looking for a great holiday gift? How about a Wheelhouse bike tour? A tour gift certificate is perfect for the history buff or cycling fanatic on your holiday gift list. Most tours cost $25 per person without a rental bike or $35 with. They can choose to put the certificate towards any tour of their liking!
Other Suggested Rides
There are tons of group rides and great cycling destinations in Detroit (and the suburbs, too!).
Destinations and semi-regular rides:
DetroitBikes! Monthly bike tours of Detroit, leisurely pace, free.
Ride of Silence: An annual, national, slow-paced bicycle ride that takes place the third Wednesday of May to honor those cyclists who have been killed or injured while cycling on public roadways. The Detroit Ride of Silence 2011 will begin on May 18 at Belle Isle leaving from Scott Fountain promptly at 7:00 pm. The 10-mile ride will head west along Jefferson, north along Woodward to Comerica Park, and reverse route back. After the ride, there will be a free bar-b-que sponsored by Macomb Bike & Fitness.
Colin Hubbell Memorial Bike Ride: June 18, 2011 @ 10 a.m. -- Third Annual. An 18-mile tour of Downtown, Midtown and New Center in honor of developer and Detroit-booster Colin Hubbell. All funds raised will benefit the Colin Hubbell Fund, which is designed to benefit community organizations and start-up businesses in Midtown.
Tour de Troit: Annual tour of Detroit each September with a police escort, and a great lunch and after-ride celebration in Roosevelt Park, the heart of beautiful Corktown. In 2010, about 3,200 participants cycled 30 miles in the D! This year, the ride is set for September 24.
Critical Mass: Fridays, 6:30 p.m. @ the corner of Warren & Trumbull. Last Friday of every month.
Compuware Motor City Bike Ride: Downtown to Metro Beach and back with SAG support. July 16, 2011.
Criterium Detroit City: Competitive racing Downtown! July 9, 2011.
J-Cycle: A tour of historic synagogues of Detroit. August 21, 2011.
Thunderdrome: A formerly abandoned velodrome in NW Detroit gets new life as a post-apocalyptic race site.
Mad Anthony Cyclocross: Cyclocross race hosted at historic Fort Wayne. October 22, 2011.
Velodrome at Bloomer Park: The Detroit-area velodrome is located at Bloomer Park, in Rochester Hills. Open to the public, with lessons, rentals and regularly scheduled races most nights.
Weekly Rides.
Bikes and Murder: Monday night cruises take off from Woodbridge Pub at 8 p.m. Also host alley cats and bike-themed film nights.
Clinton River Riders: Various days, times, and locations -- check their site.
Slow Spokes: Primarily southern Macomb County, with various dates, times and locations.
Wolverine Sports Club: Rides every day except Friday, throughout Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties.
Cycling Saddlemen: Rides on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, Hines Drive and Dearborn. Also the host of the annual First Dozen ride on New Years Day.
Bike Grosse Pointe: Rides on Saturday and Sunday mornings that meet in Grosse Pointe.
Bike Ypsi: Hosts weekly rides at 1PM every Sunday from Recreation Park, 1015 Congress Street, Ypsilanti.
Special thanks to Steve Roach of Miller Canfield and the League of Michigan Bicyclists for helping to compile this list.