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“How to Market Yourself & Your Business” Clinic Tuesday 12/10 + Team Night 12/15!

Hot Topic Clinic for Entrepreneurs: MARKETING!
Tuesday, December 10 from 6-8:30 PM

Hometown Bicycles

SIGN UP HERE TODAY!

Join us at Hometown Bicycles for a fun, engaging and informative program aimed at business owners, start-ups, and entrepreneurs who want to enter the new year with a solid marketing plan. 

Meet Our Speakers!

Susan Pominville
Susan Pominville, Abovo Visual Communications
How to tell a cohesive story that communicates the most important aspects of your business
Turtlehut
Mike Langford, Turtlehut Internet Marketing
How to navigate the ever-evolving world of online marketing
Sky Zone
Colleen Fitzgerald & Blair Bradford, Sky Zone
How to create an integrated marketing plan for your business
Lake Trust Credit Union
Nicole Dietrich, Lake Trust Credit Union
Micro Business Loans to help small business owners bring their ideas to life

There will be time for a Q&A session following the speakers, plus refreshments and time to chat with like-minded folks in our community. Can’t wait to learn alongside you!


Toys for Tots at Hometown!

Hometown is an official drop-off site for the Toys for Tots drive. Between the Marines and Salvation Army, 800 families in Livingston County have a Christmas they wouldn’t have otherwise, thanks to programs like this and the generosity of supporters like the Hometown community.

Toys are for kids up to age 14, and must be new and unwrapped. No stuffed toys, please.

We’re having a Roadies vs. Mountain Bikers competition — fill the boxes!  (Currently, the MTB-ers are beating the Roadies 37-20. Egads, Roadies! Santa is watching you!)


Team Night!

Sunday, December 15 from 5:30-7:30 PM
It’s that time of year ALREADY?! 
Time to think about joining Team Hometown Bicycles for the year 2020! 

Team Hometown Bicycles

We’re having a grand celebration to recap this year’s triumphs and contributions to the cycling community, distribute awards to our existing (and very awesome) Team members, present information to prospective members on what it means to join Team Hometown, and eat loads of Gus’s mostaccioli and breadsticks!

This event is open to ALL — you will have the opportunity to learn what Team Hometown is all about, join the 2020 Team, and sign up to be a Ride Volunteer. Come one, come all for a fun, interactive and all-around feel good evening celebrating YOU.

Sign up HERE!


Global Fat Bike Day

What better way to celebrate Global Fat Bike Daythan to join us for a ride this Saturday 12/7. We will be assembling at the shop at 9:15 AM and will leave promptly at 9:30 AM. We’ll be meeting up with plenty of other riders from all over Southeast Michigan at Island Lake Recreation Area.

Don’t have a Fat Bike? We rent them!

Happy Turkey Day, Hometownies! + Black Friday Savings

Happy Thanksgiving


Dear Hometownies,

As Thanksgiving Day approaches, we would like to wish you a very happy holiday filled with delicious food, the love of family and friends, plenty of football, maybe some bicycle riding, and hopefully a nap! 

We are so appreciative of our Team, our crew, our customers and our community. We couldn’t ask for a better group of supporters or a more perfect place to build community. Truly thankful.

We will be closed on Thanksgiving Day and open 12-7 PM on Black Friday.


Happy Thanksgiving!


Hometown Bicycles

Black Friday Savings!

Avoid the malls and come spend Black Friday with us — we have an awesome deal for the bike lovers in your lives!

Browse our inventory for bikes, parts and accessories and take advantage of 15% OFF  your entire purchase by printing out the coupon above!


Entrepreneurship Event: MARKETING!

Hometown Bicycles

Tuesday, December 10 from 6-8:30 PM


Attention all Go-Getters! This one is for you!

Men and women of all ages, join us at Hometown Bicycles for a fun, engaging and informative program aimed at business owners, start-ups, and entrepreneurs who want to enter the new year with a solid marketing plan. 

A panel of experts will present information on print marketinggraphic design and how to truly capture the spirit of your businessweb/online presence, and general promotion and marketing must-knows! There will be time for a Q&A session following the speakers, plus refreshments, takeaways, and time to chat with like-minded folks in our community.

So that we can fully focus on YOU, we will be closing the shop early for this event.

Stay tuned as we introduce our guest speakers NEXT WEEK!
 

SIGN UP HERE!


Toys for Tots Competition!

We’re having a Roadies vs. Mountain Bikers competition — fill the boxes! 

Hometown is an official drop-off site for the Toys for Tots drive. Between the Marines and Salvation Army, 800 families in Livingston County have a Christmas they wouldn’t have otherwise, thanks to programs like this and the generosity of supporters like the Hometown community.

Closing for Inventory on 11/19 + Chili Champions + Marketing for Entrepreneurs

We will be closed for inventory on TUESDAY 11/19. 
 

Fitness classes will still be running at the shop:
6 PM: HIIT
7 PM: Pound


Entrepreneurship Event: MARKETING!

Hometown Bicycles

Tuesday, December 10 from 6-8:30 PM


Attention all Go-Getters! This one is for you!

Men and women of all ages, join us at Hometown Bicycles for a fun, engaging and informative program aimed at business owners, start-ups, and entrepreneurs who want to enter the new year with a solid marketing plan. 

A panel of experts will present information on print marketinggraphic design and how to truly capture the spirit of your businessweb/online presence, and general promotion and marketing must-knows! There will be time for a Q&A session following the speakers, plus refreshments, takeaways, and time to chat with like-minded folks in our community.

So that we can fully focus on YOU, we will be closing the shop early for this event.
 

SIGN UP HERE!


Our 4th Annual Chili Cookoff was a saucy, spicy, succulent good time!

Hometown Bicycles Chili Cookoff

What a terrific turnout on Saturday 11/9 — thank you all for coming out to join our kickoff fat bike friendly ride, share your fantastic chili recipes with us, provide an inquisitive audience for Guinness World Records contender Bill St. Onge, and for choosing our Chili Cookoff winners!

Hometown Bicycles Chili Cookoff

DRUM ROLL PLEASE…

OVERALL WINNER: Ann & Miles Janicki’s Chili Cornbread Casserole

MILD WINNER: Ann & Miles Janicki’s Chili Cornbread Casserole 

MEDIUM WINNER: Gary Kulhanek’s Happy Tongue Gourmet Chili

SPICY WINNER: Mike Dyer’s Dirty Brat Chili

Many thanks to Miles Janicki for capturing some of these fun images!

Save the date for next year’s Chili Cookoff: 
Saturday, November 14, 2020, one week post-Iceman!


THIS SUNDAY 11/17 at 2 PM

Our Fat Bike Friendly Ride is back for another season of fun. This week, we will be riding the Blue Loop of Island Lake and taking a side adventure into the Badlands. Fat tire or plus tire bikes are highly recommended if you want to play in the Badlands.

Helmets are required, as is a signed 2019 waiver.
All skill levels welcome. 

Chili Cook-Off THIS SATURDAY (11/9) + Meet a Guinness World Records Contender

Hometown Bicycles Chili Cook-Off

Hey, all you competitive peeps!

Are you REALLY gonna let someone else win? Or are you gonna BRING IT!?

Your chili isn’t going to cook itself, you know…

Welcome to…

Saturday, November 9th from 4-7 PM

Hometown Bicycles Chili Cookoff


We know — and you know — a lot of competitive people. A LOT. On the roads and trails AND in the kitchen. Our event this Saturday combines the best of both worlds! 


KICK OFF OUR FAMOUS WINTER FAT BIKE FRIENDLY SHOP RIDE:

Team Hometown Co-Captain Mike Dyer is leading this one! Leaving from the shop at 1:30 PM, the posse will ride over to Island Lake and cover the blue loop and the badlands. Yellow loop too, if time permits! Bring your mountain bike or fat bike. Don’t have one? We rent them!

Hometown Bicycles Chili Cookoff

CHILI COOKOFF: 
Stir up your favorite recipe and drop it off at the shop by 4 PM. People’s Choice judging will begin at 5 PM, and the winners will be announced by 7 PM. We have THREE categories to enter this year: Mild, Medium and Spicy. A winner will be selected from each category PLUS some lucky soul will take on the title of OVERALL BEST CHILIOur very own Shaun has handcrafted some truly awe-inspiring trophies. 
 

Enter your chili HERE!

Bill St. Onge


MEET GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS CONTENDER BILL ST. ONGE! 

Bill will be at the shop with his bike and gear to talk about distance riding, and specifically his upcoming quest to take on the official Guinness World Records title of “Oldest person to circumnavigate the planet by bicycle”. 

Bring your curiosity and questions! Check out his blog HERE!

Team Hometown Bicycles at Iceman
Team Hometown Bicycles at Iceman

SHARE YOUR HARROWING ICEMAN STORIES!
We’ve seen the pics, we’ve serviced some of the surviving bikes, we’ve heard the tales of sinking into inches upon inches of mud… now’s your chance to come talk about it with other cyclists who were there, not to mention everyone who wasn’t there but WANTS to try this epic ride!

Team Hometown Bicycles represented at Iceman in droves. 

Congratulations to Scott Simpson (above, top right) for his 4th place single speed podium. Great job, Scott!

 

Super proud of everyone who conquered this race in whole or in part.

AMAZING ACCOMPLISHMENT.


(So… who’s in for Iceman 2020?)


Starting Monday, November 11th…

Monday-Friday
10 AM – 7 PM

Saturday-Sunday
9 AM – 5 PM