This Wednesday, bikers had hoped to ride nonstop through Washington D.C.to honor those who died in the 9/11 terror attacks and the soldiers who fought al-Qaida in Afghanistan.
The ride was announced in August and bikers immediately began the trek cross country to participate in the event. Organizers set up Facebook groups to organize bikers from 49 states and photos were posted on Twitter showing bikers along the way.
However, over the weekend, the city denied their permit request for a special nonstop ride waiving red lights, stop signs and traffic signals.
"We find this regretful for the residents and businesses of that great city, and humbly offer our apologies," organizers of the ride said Friday on Facebook. "What could have been a one or two hour ride through will now likely be an all-day event."
“We did the right thing and went through the proper channels to secure a no-stop permit to ride through your great city,” the groups said Sunday. “We wanted to ride an established route, which would have taken us past the Viet Nam Memorial to the Lincoln Memorial, across the bridge into Virginia, and that's it! We would have been completely out of Washington DC, and your city would have been back to normal.”
Even still, the group still plans to ride; only now they will have to follow all relevant traffic laws and law enforcement will be watching.
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