Gates Mills

21st FIREFIGHTERS' MOTORCYCLE MEMORIAL RIDE
Traveling on Chagrin River Road
THROUGH GATES MILLS
SUNDAY, MAY 25
Sometime between 11:30 a.m. - Noon
For the past twenty years, the Firefighters Memorial Ride has been honoring and remembering the three hundred and forty-three (343) fallen firefighters from the collapse of the World Trade Center Towers on September 11, 2001 with a Ceremony at the Cleveland Firefighters Memorial on the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend. This year the Ceremony and Processional Ride will take place on Sunday May 25th honoring the following Ohio Fallen Firefighters from calendar year 2024:
Cleveland Fire Firefighter Shawn P Calvey- Last Alarm July 30, 2024
Painesville Fire Lt Amanda Karduck- Last Alarm June 26, 2024
Madison Fire Lt Alan Van Kramer- Last Alarm January 3, 2024
The estimated 500 motorcycles will stage from 8:00 AM to 10:15 AM on Alfred Lerner Way (south of Browns Stadium); Ceremony at 10:30 AM at the Cleveland Firefighters Memorial across from the Browns Stadium and followed by a police escorted processional ride beginning at 11:00 AM and ending at South East Harley Davidson Dealership at 12:15.
FIREFIGHTERS MEMORIAL RIDE ROUTE MAY 25, 2025 AND ESTIMATED TIMES (assuming average speed of 25/30 miles an hour)
11:00 AM ERIESIDE TO E.9TH
11:02 AM CROSS TO N. MARGINAL
11:07 AM RIGHT E.55TH
11:08 AM LEFT I-90/OH-2 EAST
11:13 AM LEFT MLK NORTH
11:15 AM CONTINUE LAKESHORE
11:28 AM RIGHT E 185
11:38 AM LEFT ST CLAIR
11:39 AM RIGHT CHARDON
11:49 RIGHT RIVER RD
12:05 RIGHT MILES RD
12:10 PM LEFT HARPER RD
12:11 PM RIGHT CANNON
12:12 PM RIGHT AURORA
12:15 PM RIGHT SEHD
For more information go to www.firefightersmemorialride.com or contact John “KIKS” Kikol Founder and President of the FFMR at 440-263-8121