We had one in our community recently. Also windy, hilly, curvy roads - a very, very dangerous location in which to mix bikes and vehicles. The cyclists had the bald faced gall to call it a fundraising ride for a terrible disease. It's a calculated maneuver to legitimize the fact that they want to have a nice bike ride in a beautiful location and they don't give a rat's ass for the inconvenience they create for the locals. At best. In fact, I rounded a curve once to find an 18-wheeler barreling towards me ON MY LANE. Why was an 18-wheeler traveling in the wrong lane? Because the driver rounded a curve, encountered two idiots riding abreast of each other, and in an effort to avoid striking them, the driver quickly moved over to the wrong lane. I was forced to drive my car into a deep ditch to avoid a head-on crash with an 18-wheeler. Do you think the cyclists stopped and offered help? The same cyclists to earnestly state they're riding for a charity to end cancer? Not a chance.

It's time to call their bluff.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://bellringer.org/

Is it this one, OP?

Yes. And to answer the other question, when it's happened before, I could not even turn out of my neighborhood. The signs went up today but it's almost as if they are concealing what's going to happen--there's a tiny line on the sign with the group name and that's it. I am involved in community events/government and there is no effort to warn residents that there will be disruption.

Take a look at the image of the start on the website. It is a huge group and these are not the speedy cyclists who work out every weekend. This is a charity ride with lots of slow people.

The ride is raising money for cancer research. I can understand your frustration having to go slowly behind some cyclists for a few minutes leaving your neighborhood over something as silly as raising money for cancer research. It’s honestly worse than a Stalinist gulag.

It’s a vanity project so some people can get together and have fun. This is not how cancer treatments are developed.

You’re a lovely person. Do you hate babies too?

Stop being a brat. Donate to my charity.

Living in Potomac is so hard, boohoo.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe they have a permit, but it’s sucks that you were not notified. If they could put up direction signs, they could put up some warning signs a week or two in advance.

I feel like this is one of the things the local listserves were great for (letting people know there would be road closures), before they turned to Nextdoor and rants about mundane things.

I used to live in Cleveland Park and that was my all time favorite yahoo group. I wonder what happened to it.

Now I live in Oakton and there is no neighborhood listserv or Facebook group. The closest one is a very exclusive neighborhood that not only didn't let me into their group, they banned me so that I can't even SEE their group on FB anymore. I hate it here.

I feel you, OP. Hell hath no fury like mine when its Rock and Roll Marathon time.

I agree that people shouldn’t be allowed to use the roads for anything other than transportation. But then they’d need to arrest all the rioters when they step onto a street as well. I mean peaceful protesters.

We live on a similar road and it doesn’t need a race to drive me nuts. Saturday and Sundays can be awful. There is no bike lane, they will ride two abreast and with the hills and curves there is no way to pass them. There aren’t many side streets to use either. And, the road is in pretty poor condition.

In DC, the ANC is asked to weigh in on this type of event. So talk to your commissioner and share your thoughts before next year.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://bellringer.org/

Is it this one, OP?

Yes. And to answer the other question, when it's happened before, I could not even turn out of my neighborhood. The signs went up today but it's almost as if they are concealing what's going to happen--there's a tiny line on the sign with the group name and that's it. I am involved in community events/government and there is no effort to warn residents that there will be disruption.

Take a look at the image of the start on the website. It is a huge group and these are not the speedy cyclists who work out every weekend. This is a charity ride with lots of slow people.

The ride is raising money for cancer research. I can understand your frustration having to go slowly behind some cyclists for a few minutes leaving your neighborhood over something as silly as raising money for cancer research. It’s honestly worse than a Stalinist gulag.

It’s a vanity project so some people can get together and have fun. This is not how cancer treatments are developed.

You’re a lovely person. Do you hate babies too?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://bellringer.org/

Is it this one, OP?

Yes. And to answer the other question, when it's happened before, I could not even turn out of my neighborhood. The signs went up today but it's almost as if they are concealing what's going to happen--there's a tiny line on the sign with the group name and that's it. I am involved in community events/government and there is no effort to warn residents that there will be disruption.

Take a look at the image of the start on the website. It is a huge group and these are not the speedy cyclists who work out every weekend. This is a charity ride with lots of slow people.

The ride is raising money for cancer research. I can understand your frustration having to go slowly behind some cyclists for a few minutes leaving your neighborhood over something as silly as raising money for cancer research. It’s honestly worse than a Stalinist gulag.

It’s a vanity project so some people can get together and have fun. This is not how cancer treatments are developed.

If you want anything to change you will need to change the regulations in your jurisdiction to provide more notice or an earlier start or something.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://bellringer.org/

Is it this one, OP?

Yes. And to answer the other question, when it's happened before, I could not even turn out of my neighborhood. The signs went up today but it's almost as if they are concealing what's going to happen--there's a tiny line on the sign with the group name and that's it. I am involved in community events/government and there is no effort to warn residents that there will be disruption.

Take a look at the image of the start on the website. It is a huge group and these are not the speedy cyclists who work out every weekend. This is a charity ride with lots of slow people.

The ride is raising money for cancer research. I can understand your frustration having to go slowly behind some cyclists for a few minutes leaving your neighborhood over something as silly as raising money for cancer research. It’s honestly worse than a Stalinist gulag.

I’m not ordinarily a grinch but the charity rides and runs irl me a little. It’s almost always people who just like to ride or run who then guilt their friends into donating money to a charity to sponsor them for something they want to do. If you want to run a 5K, great, but why are you asking your friends to pay you to run a 5K. People should donate money because they believe in a cause, not because their friend wants to run a 5K. It’s one of tjosz weird things that has developed which, if you dropped down from outer space, you would not understand at all. I wonder how much money the race will raise, and whether the neighborhood would be willing to donate an equivalent amount to avoid having people ride through their neighborhood. That would call their bluff that they are doing this for charity!

Anonymous wrote:https://bellringer.org/

Is it this one, OP?

Yes. And to answer the other question, when it's happened before, I could not even turn out of my neighborhood. The signs went up today but it's almost as if they are concealing what's going to happen--there's a tiny line on the sign with the group name and that's it. I am involved in community events/government and there is no effort to warn residents that there will be disruption.

Take a look at the image of the start on the website. It is a huge group and these are not the speedy cyclists who work out every weekend. This is a charity ride with lots of slow people.

I would call the police non emergency number and make sure they have a permit.

This is one reason I hated working in a downtown area of a large city; every Saturday there would be some damn race and I would have to park a mile away.