Rolling Thunder in DC

External Since: May 31, 2004 Posts: 2

GI Jane and I left from Battley's Harley in Rockville at 9am yesterday along
with a couple thousand riders for the 50 mile trek to the Pentagon parking
lot. We arrived at 10 and were in the middle of a pack of (my estimate)
25,000 bikes. The Washington Post had a number like 400,000 but thats too
rediculous to be true. The lot was packed. If one bike laid over, we all
would have been screwed. The ride downtown started at noon. Two hours
after the first bike left, we started up and got in line. We finished the
parade down Constitution Ave and back around 3:00. What a fricken ride!
Fantastic people riding and watching. Not much politics and a lot of
patriotism. It's what Memorial Day is all about.

Ray
BMW R1150RS

External Since: Apr 10, 2004 Posts: 100

"RayD" <raydatgisdotnet> wrote in
news:lIudnUpux6wi0ybdRVn-sA@comcast.com:

> GI Jane and I left from Battley's Harley in Rockville at 9am yesterday
> along with a couple thousand riders for the 50 mile trek to the
> Pentagon parking lot. We arrived at 10 and were in the middle of a
> pack of (my estimate) 25,000 bikes. The Washington Post had a number
> like 400,000 but thats too rediculous to be true. The lot was packed.
> If one bike laid over, we all would have been screwed. The ride
> downtown started at noon. Two hours after the first bike left, we
> started up and got in line. We finished the parade down Constitution
> Ave and back around 3:00. What a fricken ride! Fantastic people
> riding and watching. Not much politics and a lot of patriotism. It's
> what Memorial Day is all about.
>
> Ray
> BMW R1150RS
>

I was there too. Let Lancaster Count PA, 7am arrived at DC about 11:00.
Watched the parade go by. It began at 12 noon and the last bikes came
through at 3:45.

At the Pentagon there were 2 parking lots full of bikes, some from our
group were in the second parking lot. They said that parking lot filled
that they had to use an additional "drive" to park the over flow. I have
not seen an official count. There were two extimates I heard, first was
100K bikes in parade other is 300K bikes in ride. If the paper put it at
400K then I would tend to belive it to be closer to the top number.

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