Ride of Silence...

A couple riders (Oren and Anne) in the E. Lansing, MI/USA event (2009) sharing the silence (photo by Tim Potter, E. Lansing organizer). Many more photos & videos from the 2009 events can be viewed by using our Event Report tool.

• Drawing on experience: A graphic artist, wilomis, draws the events around his bicycle accident & highlights Philadelphia's Ride of Silence event - see part 1 & part 2; 6/15/10.
• Road bicycling: Too dangerous?  Excellent video report on CNN Living site, May 27, 2010.
• Yehuda Moon comic strip features Ride of Silence theme, May 19th, 2010.  A bunch of intriguing comments to this strip.

• Congressman Blumenauer Demands Attention to Bike Fatalities on CSPAN- highlights Ride of Silence, May 18, 2010 (YouTube video).
• News article, "Annual ride set to recognize killed biker" by RoS founder Chris Phelan in White Rock Lake Weekly, May 14, 2010 issue.
• RoS large banners with messages design - 2 different sizes with RoS inspired messages were designed to be mounted to large boards mounted to bike-trailers, adapted from a base design by Jean Gorman by Tim Potter, E. Lansing, MI organizer.
• A new banner ad (animated GIF format) has been created by our very talented volunteer graphic artist, Mark Kamenish (creator of previous year's posters) which can be used on your web sites and other web sites to help promote the event this year.
• Our Arlington Hts. IL organizer, Gary Gilbert, has an excellent blog post on May 12th that's  tracking news articles re: fatal accidents in the USA just since May 1 (18 and counting).
• Pace of Chicago (Endurance sports blog) article highlights Ride of Silence events in IL.
• Check out Brasilia- DF's event poster.
• Check out Hong Kong's promo poster for the 2010 event; great work and inspiration.
• The League of American Bicyclist's web site features a new plug for the Ride of Silence Worldwide events (4/18/10).  Thank you LAB!  Here's a direct link to the article.
• "Ghost bikes honor the fallen" article about the Ghost bike movement and Ride of Silence from "ModeShift", a monthly newsletter of the Active Transportation Alliance (Vol. 3 Issue 3, April 2010).
• Reports from the Michigan Bike Summit and our first Ride of Silence organizer dinner meeting (March 26, 27, 2010).
• We've just received a powerful endorsement by Congressman Earl Blumenauer, 3rd District, Oregon, one of the two most famous bicycling congressmen in Washington, DC.  Read his "Be Bike Partisan" page on his web site to get a better idea of what Earl has done and is continuning to do on behalf of bicyclists in the USA (Mar. 24, 2010).
  
  
• NEW!  Donate to the Ride of Silence and help support the efforts and growing expenses related to our mission. For more information on donating see this page.


• Ride of Silence Cause page on Facebook - become a member and help promote our mission.  We've exceeded 1500 members (as of 4/18/10)!
  
  
• Ride of Silence Song (mp3 file, 4.5 mb), singer and music composer Luis Gomez (España), adapted with permission from the lyrics of the official poem of the Ride of Silence by Mike Murgas (USA).  YouTube version of song here | High-quality MPEG-2 file here.
  
  
• 2010 International Promotion Brochure - easily customize this new brochure template to help promote your 2010 event.  
  
  

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