A silent ride of support
Roger Bartley sustained a traumatic brain injury 16 years ago from a car accident in Colorado, yet his disability is invisible. He is remarkably fit and more than six feet tall. Bartley, a bicyclist of 40 years and a member of the Napa Valley Eagle Cycle Club, is coordinator of Wednesday evening's local version of the Ride of Silence in a show of support for those who lost their lives or were injured while sharing the road with motor vehicles. The event is intended to encourage mindfulness, road safety and awareness among both cyclists and motorists. Throughout the Ride of Silence, cyclists will wear black arm bands to represent those hurt or killed in biking accidents; those injured in an accident will wear red arm bands. Cyclists will stop halfway through the ride for a recitation of the names of Napa County bicyclists killed or injured on the road.
