Slow Roll Week Three; Jefferson Park

"Clevelanders don’t cross the river, and when we do, we don’t go very far," the website Thrillist once wrote of our town. The Cleveland writer Scott Raab once offered his own example of the East/West divide that remains one of the most quintessentially Cleveland things about the 216: "East and West Siders didn’t mix, save at ball games and Cleveland State University, where I met Wife One. Her parents had never set foot on the East Side until the day of our wedding."

We tend to disagree with such stark assessments, simply based on the fact that our first two rides of 2024, both on the city's east side, have seen a lot of westsiders on two wheels having a great time east of Public Square. Has Cleveland changed since Thrillist drew a hard line down our center? Or has Slow Roll changed Cleveland? Our mission, after all, is exactly…