May is National Bike Month and various events are held nationally and worldwide to help encourage people to give bike riding a try.
May is National Bike Month and various events are held nationally and worldwide to help encourage people to give bike riding a try.
In conjunction with the Run, Ride, Share Committee, The Monitor and various local cycling organizations, the city of McAllen helped commemorate National Bike Night with a Ride of Silence, an event established three years ago to honor cyclists who have been injured of lost their lives on public roadways. This year’s event was held Wednesday night. The 13-mile ride began and ended at The Monitor.
The Ride of Silence is an international, annual event that began in 2003. The event helps raise awareness of the dangers motorists pose to cyclists who have the same rights as the motoring public.
McAllen’s 2016 Ride of Silence had 185 riders, making it the event with the second-most participants in Texas. Like every other year, the event was free to the public and open to anyone with a bicycle willing to follow the marked route while remaining silent throughout the 13-mile route.
The route included two “ghost bikes,” which stand as a reminder for all in our communities of the necessity to safely share the roads between pedestrians, cyclists and motorists.
