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Tim Davis, rear pointing, gives instructions to local cyclists before they ride around the perimeter of the Village at Sandhills during a National Ride of Silence. Cyclists in Columbia and across the country rode in memory of cyclists killed by motorists. The cyclists wore signs on their back saying "To Honor those who have been injured or killed" and "Ride of Silence."
The only sounds in the parking lot Wednesday night were the clicking of dozens of cleats into bike pedals and the whir of spokes as cyclists filed out.
More than 70 riders — young and old — turned out at the Village at Sandhill for Columbia’s first Ride of Silence, an event that started in Texas in 2003 and serves the dual purpose of honoring riders who have been killed or injured and raising awareness of cyclists on the roads.
As they pedaled twice around the lot in Northeast Richland, many were thinking about their own personal run-ins with motorists or about fellow cyclists who had been killed.
They remembered people like Tom Hoskins, 49, who was killed in October during a ride in Lancaster County. Lee Anne Barry, 43, of Waxhaw, N.C., also was killed. A Greensboro, N.C., woman has been charged with two counts of reckless homicide in their deaths.
Kenny Supplee, 23, pulled down the neck of his jersey to show where his collarbone was broken when he was hit by a car in January in Myrtle Beach.
“He just kinda merged right into me. That’s the last thing I remember. I woke up in an ambulance,” he said.
He said it took two months to convince police the driver was at fault, and Supplee just received a check from the man’s insurance company to cover his medical bills, which included treatment for a concussion and a broken rib.

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