Slow Roll Week 5: Pride in the CLE

What is Pride? Pride in a place, like living in the patchwork quilt of communities that is Cleveland? Pride in yourself, your achievements, your faith or your convictions? Pride in your community, and its ability to come together to create a stronger, brighter flag out of many colors? These are all valid reasons to be proud in our eyes.

It's not a political position we're staking out. It's just a description of who and what we are. At Slow Roll Cleveland it's right there in our mission statement: "Bridging communities through inclusive social bike rides." It changes a little from time to time, sometimes we emphasize that the rides are free, sometimes we emphasize the the rides are casual, or that they are comprised of large groups, of which you be a part, but we never forget the "bridging communities" or "inclusive" clauses, because that's the bottom line here at…