We are planning the 2010 Tour de Troit for up to 3,500 cyclists. If we hit even near that number, we will not be accepting day-of registrations.
How to get around this? Pre-register! It’s a win-win! It helps us plan a better event and it ensures you a spot on the ride. If you sign up prior to September 7, you also get a sweet t-shirt with your registration.
Why wait? Head to tdt.eventbrite.com today!
We have several categories of volunteers needed: registration, ride support, food and more! If you are interested, please go to our registration page, tdt.eventbrite.com, and register via the “Volunteer” category.
Before you consider volunteering — which we of course think is a rewarding and awesome way to contribute! — we want you to know that you will be put to work. Volunteering should not be a way for you to ride the TdT for free, because it is possible that you will not be able to ride at all! And you will be required to attend a volunteer meeting about a week prior to the event.
On the flip side, we have a volunteer appreciation party about a month after the tour with a gift raffle and food and drink. So it’s not totally like a work camp…
T-Shirts from 2008 and 2009 Tour de Troits are currently available for $10 a pop at Inside Detroit, 1253 Woodward Ave. in Downtown Detroit!
Posters & Fliers will be popping up around town very soon! Thanks to Kem3D for another great design.
The date for 2010 Tour de Troit is set for September 25. We’re looking forward to another epic installation of “Motown Sans Motor “and are popping our heads up to announce that registration is on-line at Eventbrite.
Now we’ll go back below ground and get back to planning!
We are happy to announce that the 2009 Tour de Troit raised almost $40,000 for the Corktown-Mexicantown Greenlink, bringing the grand total of funds raised to approximately $65,000. There is a good possibility that part of the bikelane system will be built in time for the next Tour de Troit, which is scheduled for September 25, 2010.
Model D made a great video of the Tour de Troit.
If you’re not already getting Model D in your mailbox every Tuesday, you’re missing a great resource. Check it out here.
Here is an attempt to post links to the many photos we’ve been sent. Check back to this post, as it will continue to grow and become better organized!
Tim Potter, who rode the metric century.
Mike Kiewicz, one of the TdT’s founders. He was able to join us from Ohio this year!
Kris Talley. Lots of Heidelberg and of Wheelhouse Ron’s bike!
e b. Slide show set to music.
Video from Barbara Ingalls.
More to come!
We are sorting through hundreds of pics. We will publish links to everyone’s photo album as well as create our own. In the meantime, check out this great panoramic shot of cyclists entering the Heidelberg Project.
Photo by Kris Talley.
Hope this whets your appetite, check back later this week for more!
The Michigan Municipal League has an article up about promoting cycling with some commentary and pics of the TdT.
Unfortunately all too often communities and departments of transportation are slow to enact ordinances and policies that encourage, or the very least support, non-motorized transportation. Even worse, drivers’ ambivalence to the rights of cyclists to use roadways, can create a dangerous and all too often deadly environment for non-motorized transportation.
That is why it was so great to see some 2000 cyclists come out to the Motor City on a Saturday morning for the 8th annual Tour De Troit.
Read the entire article here.