<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">A number of years ago, someone on the old list serve asked whether the ride would take place on a day of particularly ugly weather. Someone else of a philosophical bent replied that the ride always took place even if nobody showed up to ride.<div><br></div><div>I believe the ride still exists in that philosophical sense, but I don’t think people have been participating in it since winter last year, as riders have aged out, moved away, quit riding, or just moved on to other routes and times.</div><div><br></div><div>If you would like to actualize the virtual ride, hopefully some other riders will come out to join you.</div><div><br></div><div>Happy trails,</div><div><br></div><div>Bill Hole (no longer riding thanks to an idiot driver)<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Oct 17, 2017, at 1:34 PM, Eric Rosenberg <<a href="mailto:ericrosenberg.dc@gmail.com">ericrosenberg.dc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Does this (semi?) organized ride still exist? <div><br></div><div>Thanks, </div><div>Eric </div><div><br></div><div>(riding a recumbent trike these days...) </div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>From the WHIRL home page: </div><div><br></div><div><p align="center" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;background-color:rgb(244,244,244)"><font size="4" face="Arial"><strong>What is WHIRL?</strong></font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;background-color:rgb(244,244,244)"><font face="Arial"><font size="2">No dues, no clubs, no meeting, no organization. You might think that it must be an organization to have a Web Page! Wrong! This site is unapproved, unorganized, and unofficial!</font><br><br><font size="2" face="Arial">WHIRL (Washington's Happily Independent Recumbent Lovers) is a group of recumbent riders that meets <b>every Saturday</b> for a 24 mile ride through Rock Creek Park. This ride has been ongoing since 1991. After the ride, some of the riders usually go out for lunch afterward.</font></font></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;background-color:rgb(244,244,244)"><font size="2" face="Arial">Starting on Memorial Day Weekend 2007 the ride will begin at 8 A.M. The start time will continue to be at 8 over the summer and then the start will change to 9 A.M. on Labor Day weekend until the following Memorial Day weekend. (Previously the ride times had followed daylight savings time changes, but these new times were agreed upon in March 2007.)</font></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;background-color:rgb(244,244,244)"><font size="2" face="Arial"> The starting point is the Viers Mill Recreation Center parking lot on Garrett Park Road in Maryland. To reach this lot, you go north on Beach Drive (the main road through Rock Creek Park) until it dead- ends. Turn right, and the parking area is immediately on your left. <a href="http://www.recumbents.com/WHIRL/location.htm">Click here for a map to the starting point..</a></font></p></div></div>
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