The Wheelhouse Detroit bike rental shop -- partly owned by Model D writer Kelli B. Kavanaugh -- is one of the city's thriving small businesses.
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Pedal a few miles, and the physical benefits of cycling become as obvious as the burning in your thighs.
But the owners of Wheelhouse Detroit, a year-old all-purpose biking outfit, have something else to prove -- that riding on two wheels is the best way to get to know a place, even somewhere considered unfriendly to cyclists like the Motor City.
Throughout the spring and fall, and occasionally in the summer, the store -- run by Detroiters Karen Gage and Kelli Kavanaugh -- hosts bike tours that range from about 10 miles to 30 miles or more.
"We have so much fun biking around the city, just going out and experiencing it and seeing new things," said Gage, 33. "Detroit has a lot of cool neighborhoods and interesting people and great architecture. These bike tours are allowing us to present that."
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