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02-19-06, 09:59 PM
Hello all,
Please condsider riding in a Ride of Silence near you in 2006, or if there isn't one, consider organizing one. As the Michigan Director I'm glad to announce we have 18 confirmed locations for 2006. Please go the R of S website or contact me for details.
On a very personal side to the Ride.....
Chris Phelan, the Ride's founder, and I have been communicating regularly He’s been including me on some emails to and from Judith Jolly, whom I assumed was a fellow board member, based on all the work she’s doing for the Ride. Judith is helping get the locations on their website (growing daily) and contacting UK clubs. I had emailed her to ask if she needed help in contacting UK clubs. After today’s email reply, well, please read the following. If you haven't made up your mind about riding in the Ride of Silence, I hope this is the final motivator..... Please ride in this year's Ride and/or organize one in your area. (chris phelan started the Ride of Silence when his friend larry schwartz was struck and killed by a passing bus outside of dallas)
To all of my fellow Michigan cyclists, if you need information on any the current 18 confirmed locations in our state, (that hopefully will reach 25) please do not hesitate to contact me.
To my home state of Massachusetts, (which is 2nd only to Mich. to the number of miles I've logged in my life) there were only a couple of Rides listed last year, and none listed currently on the Ride of Silence website. Please help make Mass. one of the top locations in the country.
Contact the Charles River Wheelmen, or the Mass. Bicycle Coalition and ask that they fully support and promote rides throughout Boston and Mass.
http://www.massbike.org/
http://www.crw.org/
markpedal
Mark Hagar
markpedal1@highstream.net
Ride of Silence, 2006 Grand Rapids Coordinator
Ride of Silence, Michigan Director
http://www.rideofsilence.org
Hi Mark,
I will follow up with the Mass Bike Coalition. We really appreciate all the work you have done in Michigan.
I have finished with contacting all the possible links for UK bike clubs, as well as NZ and Australia, and of course Canada! (I'm Canadian!) I am going to work on translating my message into French, and get the message out to French speaking countries (I'm fluent in French). I have also contacted my family in The Netherlands to try to get some contacts there.
I am not on the board, but the Ride Of Silence has personal meaning for me. Larry Schwartz was my fiancée. We had been together for almost 7 years when the bus driver hit him with the mirror of the bus, and left him to die in the ditch. I am working hard to get as many rides possible, and get the message out. I want to save lives and prevent others from going through what I went through.
Also, I have time. I married in April (to one of Larry's best friends) and we have a son, Andrew Lawrence Bengston, who is 5 months old. When he sleeps, I can work on this. My other job is very part time (15 hours a week, which I do from home most of the time). My new husband is very supportive of this event, and knows how important it is to keep Larry's memory alive, and to help save more lives.
Thanks for all you have done!
Judith
Please condsider riding in a Ride of Silence near you in 2006, or if there isn't one, consider organizing one. As the Michigan Director I'm glad to announce we have 18 confirmed locations for 2006. Please go the R of S website or contact me for details.
On a very personal side to the Ride.....
Chris Phelan, the Ride's founder, and I have been communicating regularly He’s been including me on some emails to and from Judith Jolly, whom I assumed was a fellow board member, based on all the work she’s doing for the Ride. Judith is helping get the locations on their website (growing daily) and contacting UK clubs. I had emailed her to ask if she needed help in contacting UK clubs. After today’s email reply, well, please read the following. If you haven't made up your mind about riding in the Ride of Silence, I hope this is the final motivator..... Please ride in this year's Ride and/or organize one in your area. (chris phelan started the Ride of Silence when his friend larry schwartz was struck and killed by a passing bus outside of dallas)
To all of my fellow Michigan cyclists, if you need information on any the current 18 confirmed locations in our state, (that hopefully will reach 25) please do not hesitate to contact me.
To my home state of Massachusetts, (which is 2nd only to Mich. to the number of miles I've logged in my life) there were only a couple of Rides listed last year, and none listed currently on the Ride of Silence website. Please help make Mass. one of the top locations in the country.
Contact the Charles River Wheelmen, or the Mass. Bicycle Coalition and ask that they fully support and promote rides throughout Boston and Mass.
http://www.massbike.org/
http://www.crw.org/
markpedal
Mark Hagar
markpedal1@highstream.net
Ride of Silence, 2006 Grand Rapids Coordinator
Ride of Silence, Michigan Director
http://www.rideofsilence.org
Hi Mark,
I will follow up with the Mass Bike Coalition. We really appreciate all the work you have done in Michigan.
I have finished with contacting all the possible links for UK bike clubs, as well as NZ and Australia, and of course Canada! (I'm Canadian!) I am going to work on translating my message into French, and get the message out to French speaking countries (I'm fluent in French). I have also contacted my family in The Netherlands to try to get some contacts there.
I am not on the board, but the Ride Of Silence has personal meaning for me. Larry Schwartz was my fiancée. We had been together for almost 7 years when the bus driver hit him with the mirror of the bus, and left him to die in the ditch. I am working hard to get as many rides possible, and get the message out. I want to save lives and prevent others from going through what I went through.
Also, I have time. I married in April (to one of Larry's best friends) and we have a son, Andrew Lawrence Bengston, who is 5 months old. When he sleeps, I can work on this. My other job is very part time (15 hours a week, which I do from home most of the time). My new husband is very supportive of this event, and knows how important it is to keep Larry's memory alive, and to help save more lives.
Thanks for all you have done!
Judith