An international bike ride event is being held in Ridgetown to raise awareness about sharing the road with cyclists.
The Chatham-Kent 4-H Bicycle Club will be hosting the Ride of Silence at Ridgetown Campus at 6:30pm on Wednesday, May 16.
Ridgetown is one of 390 locations around the world hosting this international event.
Lynn Van Maanen, one of the organizers for Ride of Silence, says everyone is invited to join the club for the quiet 10 km ride through Ridgetown.
"The idea is to raise awareness that cyclists share the road with motorists of all kinds," says Van Maanen. "It's to raise awareness that bicyclists are on the road and do need to be safe and it's ridden in silence, because we need to remember cyclists who have been injured or killed while cycling on the road."
Van Maanen says this will be the fourth year the Ride of Silence has been held in Ridgetown.
"A lot of cyclists don't cycle on the road because they're afraid of getting hit in traffic," she says." They don't feel safe and certainly, that can prevent some people from getting out and enjoying and exercising."
Van Maanen says cyclists should meet in the parking lot beside the Rudy H. Brown Rural Development Centre before the start of the ride.