Touring Detroit & Dearborn, Michigan by Gravel Bike!
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2020
- Detroit:
"Detroit is the largest and most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest U.S. city on the United States-Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County. The municipality of Detroit had a 2019 estimated population of 670,031, making it the 24th-most populous city in the United States." - Wikipedia.org
"The city became the 4th-largest in the nation in 1920, after only New York City, Chicago and Philadelphia with the influence of the booming auto industry. With the expansion of the auto industry in the early 20th century, the city and its suburbs experienced rapid growth, and by the 1940s, the city remained as the fourth-largest in the country. However, due to industrial restructuring, the loss of jobs in the auto industry, and rapid suburbanization, Detroit lost considerable population from the late 20th century to the present. Since reaching a peak of 1.85 million in the 1950 census, Detroit's population has declined by more than 60 percent."
"In 1903, Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company. Ford's manufacturing-and those of automotive pioneers William C. Durant, the Dodge Brothers, Packard, and Walter Chrysler-established Detroit's status in the early 20th century as the world's automotive capital. The growth of the auto industry was reflected by changes in businesses throughout the Midwest and nation, with the development of garages to service vehicles and gas stations, as well as factories for parts and tires."
Dearborn:
"Henry Ford was born on a farm here and later established an estate in Dearborn, as well as his River Rouge Complex, the largest factory of his Ford empire. He developed mass production of automobiles and based the world headquarters of the Ford Motor Company here. The city has a campus of the University of Michigan as well as Henry Ford College. The Henry Ford, the United States' largest indoor-outdoor historic museum complex and Metro Detroit's leading tourist attraction, is located here." - Wikipedia.org
In this video, JOM of the Gravel Cyclist crew enjoys an urban-suburban ride starting from Dearborn, Michigan. On a route of his own design, he wanders into Detroit catching sight of many buildings and complexes related to the auto industry, before heading over to Belle Isle followed by a look around downtown Detroit. The tour makes its way to the long-abandoned Packard Automotive Plant before calling it a day back in Dearborn. About 105kms / 65ish miles of randomness through Dearborn & Detroit.
Links of Interest:
City of Detroit - detroitmi.gov
City of Dearborn - cityofdearborn.org
The Henry Ford - thehenryford.org
Packard Plant Project - packardplantproject.com
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That was awesome great job! As a lifelong Detroiter I know every place you filmed. Spent the 60's playing in Riverside park. My family and I used to walk across the Ambassador Bridge to picnic in Windsor. Great video thanks for the memories.
That was beautiful. You captured the vibe of the city very well, despite the pushback sure to come. Love seeing America through the eyes of a visitor on two wheels. Also, really beautiful bike.
Thank you Dan. The Calfee bike in this video will appear in a video review soon.
What a great ride. I work in Downtown Detroit. I love this City. It's a little scarred and has some patina to it but we are doing all right. Thanks for doing it on 2 wheels. Awesome.
Thank you! Absolutely loved every moment of my visit.
Well done!
Nice. I've ridden around that old velodrome
thanks you for this video. i am born and raised in Michigan, about 20 miles from Detroit. while Detroit doesn't fuck around, there are beautiful places to see in the city.
You really surprised me with this video since I live in the Detroit area and have ridden my bikes extensively there along many of the roads you rode on. Did not know you were going to be in town. A real change from your usual rural gravel routes it was nonetheless entertaining and informative. A bit gritty perhaps but it is seen from the perspective of a non-Detroiter so it is warts and all. The Vorais Velodrome in the opening scene is a challenging ride by itself and is also the site of the Detroit Invitational Cyclocross races held in late Nov. and/or early Dec. Thanks for taking time to visit our city and hope you come back soon to ride some of our amazing and extensive SE Mich gravel roads.
Hi David, there are certain USA cities I plan to urban tour through, and Detroit has been on my list to visit for many, many years. I have a video of just me playing around at the Dorais Park velodrome coming out soon. I did ride out of Hastings, MI, the day after, home to Barry Roubaix... I rode the 105-mile course, video to come!
@@GravelCyclist Looking forward to seeing them. Really enjoy your videos and look forward to each new one.
Really interesting tour! Nice change of pace from your other excellent vids! A+ channel!
Great video once again Jom. I love seeing both the rough, with the smooth of these kind of tours.
Wish i had known that you were in town it would have been nice to meet and have you over for a refreshment while in downtown Detroit. Wonderful video of the Detroit area and i was surprised that you took many of the same roads that i regularly ride. Unfortunately you visited Detroit during the pandemic and on a cool day. Please come back again under better times
Oh man, this brought back memories from my younger days. Friends and I used to ride BMX bikes to the Packard Building where we had a super legit course setup inside. So much fun and great times in that city. Thanks for another stellar tour!
I can only imagine how cool that course must have been. I was hoping to gain permission to ride around inside, but due to safety concerns, a no go.
The drone shots of the Packard ruins were amazing. Definitely glad you brought the drone.
Thank you Eric. I have a stack of drone footage I didn't use in the final edit. I could have spent hours filming from the air.
Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village are awesome. It is his private collections. He collected trains. Real trains. They are inside the buildings. He also collected buildings. Thomas Edison’s laboratory, the Wright brothers bike shop etc... I lived in Detroit 14 years in the 1980s and 90s. It used to be the industrial center of the United States. Now pretty much burned down and boarded up. That is the Ambassador bridge. Leads to Windsor. The GM headquarters was originally built by Ford as a convention center and hotel.
Thank you Matt, I really need to return and spend a day at the Henry Ford Museum.
It's the 'Ambassador bridge' by the way. The train station is another landmark that is worth checking out. Ford bought it recently to renovate.
Hi Benjamin, thank you. I completely forgot about the train station, so thinking I need to return to film a part two. Are there some other landmarks worthwhile visiting? I have a video coming out soon of me playing around on the Dorais Park velodrome, so much fun!
@@GravelCyclist Jom, there's a lot to see in Detroit. From the Atlas Obscura worthy Heidelberg Project, to Eastern Market, to the Detroit Institute of Art, to the home of Motown, "Hitsville USA".
It's also home to Detroit Bikes, who build and fabricate their own bikes. And two large group rides *usually* Critical Mass and Slow Roll, but now we live in unusual times.
The old Michigan Central Railroad station? I started my career there. I thought they were tearing that down.
Nice Welcome to Detroit!
They all called in sick, subscribed lol
Great video! You passed by the construction site of the Gordy Howe International Bridge. When that opens, cyclists will be able to ride over to Windsor, Ontario toll free. Also, by the park near the Ambassador Bridge, you passed right by the only floating zip code in the U.S., the J. W. Westcott II which delivers mail to ships on the river. Just too much history to cover in one video. Thanks for posting!
Thanks for chiming in, appreciate the insight, especially the coming toll free connection to Canada. Brilliant!
Love your Aussie accent! Nice ride 😃
is cool to cool to come across a random video of your home town, if youre still in dearborn come grab a bite to eat from our sandwich shop
Nice video jom I live on the outskirts of Detroit haven’t been down there in a while nice view of the old Packard buildings Nice drone shots where are you off to next ?
Hi Bob, I'm already back in Florida, but the day after this video, I drove to Hastings, Michigan to ride the 105-mile Barry Roubaix course... video coming later.
Gravel Cyclist I have heard of that Barry Roubaix bike race but have never done it I heard it’s quite challenging can’t wait to see your video on that course glad to hear you’re back home safe and sound.
Im from both Detroit and Dearborn and you just drove by all my roads lol
Technically, I rode by all of your roads :)
I've only been in Detroit one time back in the 1970's. I got there at the end of December. It got down to -35F (-37.3C) that night.
My car froze up solid since it had antifreeze more appropriate for a Georgia winter.
It was too dang cold to do anything outside. There used to be a lot of neighborhood bars-each neighborhood represented a particular ethnic group.
I was not sad to leave after a month of such cold weather.
I cannot fathom -35F / -37.3C - I too would have departed in a hurry with that sort of cold.
@4:30 That is one of Ford's Proving grounds behind the wall.
Guapas las camisetas de gravel y bicicletas claro!!!! Un sorteo para suscriptores .
That church is a Hungarian Church (Magyar Templom), pretty cool to see that in Detroit.
Thank you!
Detroit is my home town, gotta watch yourself rolling around Detroit, be safe.
That's what I was thinking ignorance will get you into trouble
3:09 looks like an enormous grass pump track
I swear when you were by Zug Island, I could smell transmission fluid.
the ambassador bridge and the new bridge under construction will be the Gordy howe bridge
Thanks for the update!
it cool to see youre in my hometown, come by our sandwich shop to grab a bite to eat if youre still in dearborn
Hello Karam, this ride happened about two weeks ago at the time the video was posted, back in Florida. But thank you!
is there a GPX route available for what you did?
Actually, the Rotunda building that burnt in '62 was 3 miles east of that point. That is the 'new' Rotunda Center, several smaller building with various jobs. The Stacked Building is the old Rouge Steel now AK Steel but FOMOCO still produces parts and the F150 on site.
The area with the old church is Old Delray. Mainly Hungarian and some Romanian enclaves. It is being bought out piecemeal to make way fo the new international Gordy Howe bridge to Canada.
I gotta say you covered a lot of territory for one video! Bike on.
Thanks for clarifying the Rotunda, and the F150 production info. I planned the route the day before, not a lot of research, just a ramble about town. Thanks again for the great feedback!
@@GravelCyclist following now as your adventures look more fun than my own! Be safe out there!
Jom, is the old velodrome in your video lead-in in Detroit area?
Hi there, yes, Dorais Park. I will be publishing a complete video of me playing around on the velodrome soon.
Thought I recognized it, but the name eluded my memory bank. There are many great gravel roads throughout mi. Lots of great tree lined roads amongst the many lakes in Washtenaw and Livingston counties.
I have a ride video coming soon from the town of Hastings, MI. The Barry Roubaix race is hosted there, I rode the mac daddy 105-mile course... it was quite a day, even at a relaxed pace. There is so much good riding in Michigan!
Just wondering, how would a FORD gravelbike ride and look?
Dude, if you're up this way, stop by Pittsburgh! We have great gravel riding. Just message me here or our FB group, Adventure Biking.
That’s our Ambassador Bridge to Canada
That I would loved to have ridden across, but no US Residents / Citizens allowed into Canada at this time :( Thanks Covid.
Stay in Dearborn if you do anywhere else you better have a 44 Magnum
Yikes.
Water tower spotted @33:33.
I should have included the zoom in shot of that water tower... oh well.
If you want to hit some beautiful gravel roads head north about an hour by car.
I rode the Barry Roubaix 105 mile course out of Hastings but know I've only skimmed the surface of killer gravel roads in Michigan. Hope I can return sooner rather than later.
Eerie to see such a lack of population, great place to shoot an apocalypse movie!!
I didn't understand why Ford World HQ was empty? I visited during a weekday, it was not a public holiday and so on. Maybe everyone is working remote?
Gravel bike works well on gravel and on beat up pavement. Looks like there's plenty of that in Detroit.
Perfect bike for that ride!
Ambassador Bridge
Nice ride,I got hit by a car on Jefferson Ave on my way back from Belle isle earlier this summer. Detroit can be very unforgiving to cyclists
Thanks Tom, hopefully your injuries weren't too bad. I rode as many bike paths and segregated lanes as possible, but I had to think ride defensive / be on alert the entire day.
Awesome video...but depressing city, looks like "City Planning Commission" skipped town, and left the city to rot...WTF???????
About seven years ago, the City of Detroit declared bankruptcy, but things have turned around considerably since then. Take a Google, there is plenty of info.
Detroit was the Silicon Valley of the industrial age. The prosperity is evidenced by the miles upon miles of beautiful custom homes throughout the city. Many now are in ruins but others survived and are now being restored. Some areas like Indian Village and the Boston Edison district were well maintained all along and are still beautiful today. I ride my bike through Detroit often and it is refreshing to see the steady progress. Such great history at every turn. Nicest people I have ever encountered on a bike ride. It is a great cycling city.
Too many adverts to Wade through Jom
It's a goodbye from me.
Chris, I don't make the rules about advertising on UA-cam, that is entirely their call.
If you think GMs headquarters is nice you also have to remember they are very bankrupt
That wasn't the point of the video.
"Over the wall....", was the current Ford Test Track, former site of the Ford Airport where Ford Trimotors used to fly......welcome to Dearborn, mate.
Appreciate the information Thomas, thank you.