2016 Ride of Silence Thread
05-18-16, 05:31 AM
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2016 Ride of Silence Thread
Hope everyone can get out and participate this evening. ::Ride of Silence:: Home - '0 words spoken - A million powerful memories"
05-19-16, 05:41 AM
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Surely I'm not the only one who participated in an ROS event? We had 150 show last night.
05-19-16, 07:37 AM
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We had about 25 show up for our local ROS event last night (small city). We only rode about 3 miles but no one here had ever done an event like this here before.
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05-19-16, 07:49 AM
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Pouring rain last night, and most of the college riders are gone, so I doubt we'd come up with a half dozen riders anyway.
05-19-16, 08:57 PM
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About 100 cyclists participated in the Fort Worth Ride of Silence Wednesday evening, my first time with this group. One of the organizers is Chris Babb, whose daughter Megan -- a competitive cyclist and Olympic hopeful -- was killed while training in 2011.
It was pretty well organized and traffic safety was handled by a combination of volunteer cat herders and a city bicycle mounted police officer. They managed to herd us all safely through several busy intersections. I wrote most of my thoughts in this thread.
Here's a short video by one participant that demonstrates it pretty well.
It was pretty well organized and traffic safety was handled by a combination of volunteer cat herders and a city bicycle mounted police officer. They managed to herd us all safely through several busy intersections. I wrote most of my thoughts in this thread.
Here's a short video by one participant that demonstrates it pretty well.
05-20-16, 11:21 AM
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I quit going to the local one (Arlington Heights IL) after the decision was made to go down a heavily traveled road with no warning. I was told by the organizer that having a automobiles wait for a group of bicyclists to run a red light and then obstruct their travel was a way to increase positive awareness for bicycling in the community.
05-20-16, 01:03 PM
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I appreciate the sentiment and awareness raising, but I had to chuckle a bit at this line on their site:
[h=2]THE RIDE OF SILENCE WILL NOT BE QUIET[/h]
[h=2]THE RIDE OF SILENCE WILL NOT BE QUIET[/h]
05-20-16, 03:29 PM
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I quit going to the local one (Arlington Heights IL) after the decision was made to go down a heavily traveled road with no warning. I was told by the organizer that having a automobiles wait for a group of bicyclists to run a red light and then obstruct their travel was a way to increase positive awareness for bicycling in the community.
