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I've moved this image around my desktop for 2 years. I'm not sure why I never filed it, nor why I hadn't posted it, but yesterday's weather had me dreaming of riding again so today's the day. It's one of my favorite places from my bike rides around Brooklyn. The ride that takes me up Myrtle to Marcy and a quick right, there they are. Always busy. Always smiling. Along with all of their signs hangs many photographs by other photographers, let's just say it's a well photographed tire shop. For me it's security, the roads of Brooklyn are torture on a bike tire and it's nice to know I can get a quick fix and be on my way.

This must be the place.

tiresome.









Trips to Detroit are always heavy with disbelief. How did this happen - how does it continue to happen? It was absolutely too cold to get out and wander so I drove the empty roads looking for something new but found nothing but old tires. As a kid I loved driving down I-94 watching the big tire cross the road. Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels on the radio. There was a football and a soccer team called The Wheels. It's not surprising in the Motor City but the vast amount of discarded tires on almost every block was disgusting. Come on Detroit! Let's make 2010 the year they stop talking about how bad the city is.