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Rollin' into the 313!

Submitted by hurler18
on July 14, 2011 - 1:42pm

Well, we've made it, 350 miles across the state, arriving in Detroit around 5:30 PM yesterday. We were followed by channel 7's Stephen Clark, who interviewed us, taped us playing a tune or two, and put cameras on our bikes as we rolled out of Livonia towards Grand River on 6 mile Rd. The urban ride is fascinating, seeing things at a pace you don't feel in a car, slowly watching the center of the city bloom before your eyes.

We're in the home stretch!

Submitted by hurler18
on July 13, 2011 - 1:24pm

We're in Metro Detroit now, having rolled through Canton, Plymouth, and into Livonia yesterday. We were joined by our friend and supporter, Phillis Engelbert, it was great to have her positive presence in our camp again.

We spent some time with MI Radio's Jennifer Guerra before and during the ride. She caught up with us in a park in Plymouth where we presented ourselves to a dozen or so 16 year olds. This can be a tough audience, lots of bravado and wry wit on display... We broke through with a blazin' boogie woogie, played just inches from them.

Nearing the end of the tour

Submitted by hurler18
on July 12, 2011 - 1:30pm

Yesterday we rode from Ann Arbor to Canton, where the piano/bike spent the night prior to today's ride to Livonia for our 8 PM gig at the Trinity House Theater. We were pulled over by the Sheriff and given a stern lecture regarding cycling and sharing the road. Luckily, we're very pleased to share the roads with any vehicles other than piano/bikes, or even other piano/bikes, so we saw no problem and proceeded at a maniacal pace in front of a looming storm. We found shelter (barely) in a barn on Plymouth Rd., before making the last 3 miles in gentle rain.

Home Turf

Submitted by hurler18
on July 11, 2011 - 1:07pm

Yesterday was a glorious day for the JBE. Every premise of our project was tested, and the results were fantastic. We started in Chelsea , the winter home of the JBE, where Aberdeen Bike and Outdoors shelters and maintains the piano/bike. Our everlasting gratitude to Mike Casey and his staff, we depend on them mightily, and they always take care of us.

We played a concert on the lawn of the Chelsea Library, a hundred people or more gathered in the shade to hear us play, it felt like a time gone by, with folks getting close to hear us play without amplification.

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