bike advoiLast night May 21 at 7 pm was the International Ride Of Silence in which I had the privilege of being able to ride with out of Rehoboth Delaware. The Ride of Silence is a ride but on every year to remember those who were killed or injured last year by motorists. The website is rideofsilence.org.
Last night out of Rehoboth we had 45 cyclists comeout for the ride. We rode in a double paceline at 12mph down route 1 with 2 state troopers as escorts. It was strange riding in such a large group without anyone talking. We also wore armbands most wore black in remembrance of those who have been killed. While others wore red to show that they have been in accidents and injured by motorists. The people from the Milford cycling group had me wear a red arm band because of a road bike accident I was involved in with a pickup a bout a month ago.[hope to write about that later.
I was very pleased by the turnout of cyclists in our area as well as the large turnouts from around the world. I know locally we had a large amount of media coverage. The local tv station even had a live feed of our roll out.
It is my hope that some motorists learn that we have a legal right to be on the road and to look out for cyclists and pedestrians
I was hoping that you would write about the accident…glad the ride was a good experience.