Yes, the bikes are real. Here's a link, http://www.cincinnaticycleclub.org/, click on "forum" then go to the topic "In Loving Memory"

Members of the club, including me, donated money for the memorial. The blond woman (flanked by 2 other women) giving the speech in one picture and holding a bouquet of flowers in the other is a longtime friend and the fiancee of Terry Walker.

The only Cincy TEer I know of is TrekJeni and I don't know if she was there.

Unfortunately, I couldn't be there and I agree the CCC did a wonderful job of putting together this memorial.