Ghost Bike Memorial Ride - 2011 by Dmitry Gudkov on Flickr.
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LA, Sunday April 24: ghost bike tie up R.I.P Manny santizo »
link goes to Midnight Ridazz thread about a ghost bike memorial for Manny Santizo
We ride and walk with love in our hearts, with sadness for what has been lost, with rage that these crashes did not have to happen, and with hope that we never, ever have to do this again.”
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excerpt from speech given at each ghost bike during the 6th Annual Memorial Walk and Ride in NYC on March 13, 2011. Yesterday’s ride passed through the Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Staten Island, stopping at each of the ghost bikes installed during the previous year before culminating in a rally at Brooklyn Borough Hall and the dedication of a ghost bike for the unnamed and unknown whose deaths never made the news.
Press roundup:
A Tour of Ghosts on Two Wheels
Advocacy Group Honors Cyclists and Pedestrians Killed in Traffic
6th Annual Memorial Ride and Walk Honoring NYC’s Fallen Bicyclists and Pedestrians
Pause for a moment of cyclists
NYC: 6th Annual Memorial Ride and Walk
The Annual Memorial Ride and Walk brings New Yorkers together to remember pedestrians and cyclists killed in our city over the past year. This will mark the sixth year that this event has occurred. Riders will visit the site of each ghost bike, a white-painted memorial for cyclists, installed since 2010 . Four rides will begin in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island, and participants will converge at Brooklyn Borough Hall at 5 PM. Please help us show solidarity with the family and friends of those lost by joining us for this important event. Bring flowers and other items to honor those lost. Convergence: 5:00 PM, Brooklyn Borough Hall
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Queens: 12:00 PM, NW corner of Juniper Park, Juniper Blvd. N. & Lutheran Ave
Bronx: 1:15 PM, E. Fordham Rd & Webster Ave (4 to Fordham Rd, B, D to Grand Concourse or MetroNorth to Fordham Road)
Staten Island: 1:30 PM, Everything Goes Book Cafe, 208 Bay St between Victory and Hannah
Brooklyn: 1:40 PM, Linton Park (1 block north of 2/3/4/5 to Van Siclen)
Manhattan: 3:00 PM, Pelham Fritz Rec Center, Marcus Garvey Park, Mount Morris Park West (just west of 5th) at 122nd St
Day-of updates: www.twitter.com/nyc_streetmem
Detailed ride schedule: http://www.ghostbikes.org/node/754
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=126420600761363
Contact: www.ghostbikes.org/contact
More information: www.ghostbikes.org/new-york-city
Memorial ride and ghost bike dedication for Taryn Wright.
This is the first ghost bike installed in Hawaii, on the Island of Oahu.
REDLANDS: Bike club plans memorial for fallen rider »
posted by PE News on November 11, 2010 1:01 PM
A memorial bike ride and ceremony is planned on Saturday to honor of Paul “Lynn” Pletcher, 70, who was killed Nov. 4 when he was hit by a vehicle while riding his bike in Beaumont.
The Redlands Water Bottle Transit Company will lead the ride, which will depart at 8 a.m. from Stell Coffee and Tea Company on Barton Road in Redlands and travel to the accident site on Champions Drive near Cherry Valley Boulevard.
The riders will conduct a short ceremony and leave a ghost bike chained at the scene. Ghost bikes are painted white and usually have a sign with the name of the person who was killed and the date of the accident.
Members of the Redlands Water Bottle Transit Company may establish an annual Lynn Pletcher Memorial Ride starting next year. Funds raised would go to a charity or the Yucaipa High School Scholarship Fund in his honor. Pletcher, who was retired, had worked for the Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District more than 20 years.
— JAN SEARS
jsears@PE.com
September 19, 2010: Dr. Albert Varacallo Memorial Ride and Ghost Bikes Installation, DuBois, PA.
Video by Josh Karns of PA Walks and Bikes
Brooklyn, NY: Saturday memorial ride for Jasmine Herron »
There will be a vigil ride for Jasmine Herron this Saturday, the 25th, starting at 8:00 p.m. at the corner of Atlantic and Washington. The vigil organizers — including the 77th Precinct Community Council, Brooklyn Community Board 8, the 77th Precinct Clergy Council, and Council Member Tish James — are asking cyclists to come and ride in tribute to the victim.
Colorado: bike ride planned in honor of Kevin Rogers »
Saturday, Sept. 25 from 8 to 11 a.m. on the CTU campus at 3901 W. 59th St. The ride will proceed to the “Ghost Bike” at 57th Street and Galway Avenue that marks the spot where Rogers was killed.
Memorial bike ride in remembrance of Dr. Albert Varacallo of DuBois, Pennsylvania »
A group of cyclists from Western Pennsylvania are organizing a Ride of Silence and the placement of a Ghost Bike, this Sunday, September 19, 2010, in remembrance of Dr. Albert Varacallo of Dubois, PA, who was killed in July of this year by a careless driver.
Cyclists from around Pennsylvania are encouraged to attend in a show of solidarity for our fallen brother.
Participants will meet at Oklahoma Elementary School, located at 1032 Chestnut Avenue in Dubois. The group will depart from the school at 12:00 noon for a slow 4.5 mi, 30 minute “Ride of Silence” to the location of the Ghost Bike placement at the intersection of Shaffer & Maple. Individuals are encouraged to bring and wear simple black armbands in remembrance.
When the Ride of Silence arrives at the Ghost Bike location at 12:30, there will be brief memorial. Plans are in the works for a 15 to 20 mile recreational ride in the area for fellowship after the memorial.
For more information, visit the Facebook event page.
New Mexico: Bike honoring fallen cyclist to be replaced, dedicated »
NEW LAGUNA, N.M. - The roadside memorial for a Ringtown bicyclist that was removed by the New Mexico Department of Transportation will be replaced and dedicated this weekend.
Jennifer Buntz, president of a New Mexico cyclist club, Duke City Wheelmen Foundation, said Thursday that after “jumping through a lot of hoops … complete with getting insured (to hold the dedication ceremony) and permitted to put this ghost bike back up,” the bike honoring 19-year-old John Anczarski, who died after being hit by a car in June, will be replaced Saturday.
The bike, painted white, was placed by a man from the Laguna Pueblo, an Indian reservation on which the June 21 crash occurred. Anczarski died June 22 from injuries suffered in the crash.
The man who installed the bike about a month after the crash wished to remain anonymous because, he said, “It’s not about me. This is about what John was doing for the good of everyone.”
Buntz said she was in contact with the man, and with his help was able to identify the location of the crash.
She worked with NMDOT in order to determine where the bike could be placed so that it remained permanently.
“NMDOT requested that we place the ghost bike as far off the road as possible, which puts it up against the fence separating the highway right-of-way from private property on the other side,” Buntz said.
Duke City Wheelmen Club members, cyclists from other parts of New Mexico, including Albuquerque, and Anczarski’s family friends who hosted him and his teammates on The Pink Pedal charity bike ride will come together at 4:30 p.m. Saturday to dedicate the bike.
“It is part of the process of grieving and it helps people move one step closer to healing the wounds that losing a loved one causes,” Buntz said. She said the bike will be placed, flowers will be laid around it and she will ask people to say a few words.
Buntz said a spokesman for the tribe said they are in support of any memorial the family wants, although they did not specifically reference the ghost bike.
(08-25-2010; 20:58 PDT) SAN FRANCISCO [Masonic/Turk] — A vigil was held for German visitor Nils Yannick Linke, who was killed August 13 while riding his bicycle on Masonic. Neighbors, bicycle advocates, and District 5 San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi attended the tribute and Reverend Will Scott, pastor of St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Church, gave a blessing. A friend of the Linke family sang Amazing Grace.
Memorial ride honors cyclists killed in Oklahoma City »
Local cyclists are hosting a memorial ride Thursday to honor two cyclists who were killed during accidents on the roads last weekend. Cyclists will ride between the spots where the men were killed, pausing at each location. They will place memorials at each spot.
Tom Kilpatrick didn’t know the cyclists who were killed during accidents with motor vehicles last weekend, but he said he feels a sense of loss that is shared by the entire cycling community.
Although many of the cyclists who plan to participate did not know Spencer or Riggs, they shared the same roads and a connection through doing what they loved, Kilpatrick said.
“All of us lost part of us through their deaths,” Kilpatrick said. “This is something that is very close to all of us because we’re out there every day completely vulnerable to the circumstances that led to the deaths of Alan and Clyde.”
Raising awarenessA memorial ride is designed to help cyclists grieve, raise awareness in the community and show support for the men’s families.
Cyclists plan to meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday near the place where Spencer was killed, north of NE 122 on Midwest Boulevard. They will pause there for a few minutes before riding to the place where Riggs was killed near 5200 E Britton Road. They will place ghost bike memorials at each spot.
A ghost bike is a white bike that stands as a memorial along the side of the road where a cyclist was killed by an automobile. The ghost bikes will serve as a reminder for future cyclists and drivers, Kilpatrick said.
Kilpatrick cycles between 4,000 and 5,000 miles a year, primarily in the eastern part of Oklahoma County. He said cyclists are often bumped, injured or run off the road by inattentive drivers.
He managed to avoid being struck by a sport utility vehicle Monday during an evening ride through his neighborhood in northwest Oklahoma City.
Kilpatrick said he noticed fewer cyclists were on the roads Monday. Cars also gave him a wider berth than usual.
Sarah Bell, a cyclist and organizer for the memorial ride, said news about the accidents rattled the cycling community. She said the memorial ride is a way for cyclists to give their condolences and show solidarity with one another and the victims’ loved ones.
“We just want to let their families know that the rest of us out here are grieving with them,” Bell said. “Our thoughts are with them and we want to support them any way we can.”
