Ride of Silence

As of this morning, 121 locations from around the globe have confirmed their plans for a Ride of Silence™ event, and more trickle in each week.

That leaves over 150 locations from previous years unconfirmed for 2007, with the March 1 deadline for confirmation rapidly approaching. After that time, we'll be cleaning up our database and removing those locations and contacts we haven't heard from.

We can take a hint, and we don't want to pester those of you who, for whatever reason, will not be organizing a Ride of Silence this year.

However, if you miss the deadline and get dropped from the contact database, all is not lost. You'll still be able to list your local Ride of Silence by re-submitting your information from the Add a Location page.

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We've rolled over the ride listing database and are currently in the process of confirming new and returning events. If you're the organizer of a previous year's event and have not been contacted, please contact our webmaster and let him know if you will be organizing a Ride of Silence™ again this year. Also, send along any information that needs to be updated in your listing.

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Some of you may have noticed that the Ride of Silence™ Locations page has undergone some changes since the 2006 ride. Here's why.

The number of Ride of Silence locations hosting events has grown during the past few years, and because of this and the amount of information the organizers wished to convey in their event listings, the Locations page had grown to be quite large. Recalling that not everyone has the luxury of a high speed internet connection, our webmonkey decided to speed up the loading of the locations by first splitting the Locations page into separate United States and International listings. He also added a bit more intelligence so that a visitor to the page is now able to select just the state or country of interest. No more scrolling around through hundreds of locations' listings just to get to the one you're interested in.

You can still get to the International and United States Locations pages from the left-side navigation bar, but instead being located near the top of the list of links, these have moved down a bit, under their own Locations heading.

We think it's a pretty good solution, and we hope you agree.

You also may have noticed that it has been eight months since the 2006 Ride of Silence, yet we have not yet updated the Locations listings with 2007 events. We know you're eager to learn what locations will be hosting Ride of Silence this coming year, but bear with us a little while longer. We'll be "resetting" the event listing soon after the first of the year.

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