The Tour de Troit is a bike ride that explores some of the city’s historic areas, takes in many of its most breathtaking sights, and provides bicyclists a unique opportunity to legally “take over” the streets of the Motor City.

The 2013 Tour de Troit has 5,700 registrants. Advance registration is closed. 300 tickets will be available onsite on September 21 beginning at 7AM.

The 2013 ride will be on September 21, 2013.

  • EARLY BIRD – Through May 31 – $40/$35 (student) w/t-shirt
  • June 1 to September 3 – $45/$40 w/t-shirt
  • Sept. 4 to Sept. 13 – $55/50 w/t-shirt
  • ONSITE (300 available) $65 w/t-shirt (size not guaranteed). Cash, check or credit card accepted.

The TdT raises awareness of biking as a mode of transportation; publicizes the growing greenways network in the City of Detroit and all of Southeastern Michigan; and raises funds for greenway development in Detroit, including the Southwest Detroit Greenlink and the GREEN Taskforce Vision for Greenways on Detroit’s Lower Eastside. Read more at Model D; Modeshift; or Crain's.

All advance registrants are welcome to pick-up their packet in advance of the ride

The Tour de Troit offers several rides to choose from.

The first — and primary — is a leisurely ride of 30 miles with police escort on a closed route with sweeper- and SAG support. The map of that ride can be found here:

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For extremely experienced cyclists, the Tour de Troit offers a metric century (62 miles) option that does not include police escort. Riders should be able to ride approx. 15MPH and be comfortable on city streets following the Rules of the Road. This ride is sweeper- and SAG-supported but intersections are not closed to traffic. The metric ride is sold out for 2013.

Registration will open at 7:00 a.m.

The metric century riders can leave Roosevelt Park anytime between 7:00 and 8:30 a.m. but must be responsible to keep a pace that will have them off the road and back to the park by 1:00 p.m. (15MPH pace; leave by 7:15 a.m. / 18MPH pace; leave by 7:45 a.m. / 20MPH pace; leave by 8:15 a.m.) There will be pacers at these three speeds, but metric riders should be prepared to follow the map and route markings on their own.

The main ride will take off at 9 a.m. NEW THIS YEAR: There will be a staggered start that will make use of rider bib numbers to designate your start area and time. Instructions and a site map are included in every packet.

After the ride, all participants will enjoy a meal provided by local restaurants and a couple of icy cold beverages as well as some music! There's a really festival-like atmosphere at Roosevelt Park, so plan on sticking around for a couple of hours!
 

 

Forwarded by Midtown Alliance

And by Central District Police/Community Relations Council

Per Leslie Malcolmson