I did the Ride of Silence last year and will do it again this year. It was one of the most amazing things I've ever done.

About 15-20 of us all told, coulda been 25. We rode for about an hour, never exceeding 12 mph and no one talked - and I mean no one. You can't even imagine how humbling, awesome, awe-inspiring it is to ride with a group of riders and all you hear are the gears, the pedals clipping in and out at stops, the mechanics of riding a bike.

one woman had taken a picture of a fallen rider and pinned it to her jersey like a ride number. had me in tears when I saw it. It's an amazing and an amazingly simple tribute to fallen comrades.