Ben Zanin<p>Attended the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RideOfSilence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RideOfSilence</span></a> in Toronto today, with my sister, in heavy rain. Jun was there to document it, of course¹, as is his wont. We rode to city hall, took shelter under an overhang, and read aloud the names and ages of our neighbours killed on two wheels². Then we broke the group and rode home in the rain.</p><p>Every time I go to one of these I hope it is the last one.</p><p>I will keep going until it is.</p><p>¹: <a href="https://jnyyz.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/ride-of-silence-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jnyyz.wordpress.com/2025/05/21</span><span class="invisible">/ride-of-silence-2025/</span></a></p><p>²: <a href="https://jnyyz.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ride-of-silence-list-2024.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jnyyz.wordpress.com/wp-content</span><span class="invisible">/uploads/2025/05/ride-of-silence-list-2024.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dlws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dlws</span></a></p>