Long Island NY Ride of Silence

This was our second ROS, however, I am not sure whether to count it as our first since last year we got rained out.

I organized this ride for our bike club as no one heard of it before. I am happy to report considering the threatening rain I consider it a huge success. We were 20 riders. Half were club members and the others joined us from our listing on the ROS site. A few of them were family members who had lost their nephew in NM and road for him. They were very appreciative that we were holding such a ride.

We had a few drops of rain and I thought that those might be tears from those above especially one of our own members who our club rode in memory of.

The route was just under 9 miles which I thought was short, but was the best I could do without going on real busy hwys, but it was perfect because any longer it would have been dark. The route took us through developements and semi hwy roads and a bit of a bike path that I needed to use as a connection. So I feel we covered all roads where awareness was needed.

Of course on the bike path there was a guy on a mtn bike coming in the opposite direction that swirved in our path to get around a couple of walkers and one of our members fell, but did not get injured. I will end their before I rant on my feelings about that guy.

Now I will hope for even better skies for next years ride. I am sure the turn out will be even bigger.

~ JoAnn

Jo, that's the same kind of weather we had. but here, we're pretty much used to that kind of stuff.