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GREENSBORO – Bicyclists around the world took to the roads Wednesday for the annual Ride of Silence to honor cyclists killed or injured while biking.

Greensboro’s ride took on a special meaning this year in the wake of a cycling accident that killed an Elon University professor Eugene Gooch.

Resident Mark Schulz said he knows all too well the dangers of cycling. It was just last year the UNCG Professor was hit while biking home from work.

"I was riding home in the evening with lights and reflectors and everything and was hit by a motorist who was text messaging while she was driving and wound up in the hospital two weeks, had a broken knee cap, five compressed discs," he said.

The accident kept Schulz from participating in last's years Ride of Silence. But Wednesday he joined hundreds of other cyclists for the annual memorial ride in Greensboro.

"The Ride of Silence is a national and now world-wide phenomenon where riders across the country ride in a very slow procession in order to preserve the memories of those people who have been killed or injured while bicycling," Michelle Horvath, with Bicycling in Greensboro, said.

During the ride, the cyclists can not go any faster than 12 miles an hour and they must wear a helmet.

"I think all of us really feel for both his family and for those people who actually knew Dr. Gooch. It also brings to us our own vulnerability on the road," Horvath said.

Cyclists hope the Ride of Silence will help motorists remember to share the road.

"There could be their doctor, their kid’s teacher, their neighbor, somebody that they know, and I want them to remember that when they are actually not paying attention or passing us too fast or doing things that might injure us that they might wind up hurting somebody that they know," Horvath said.

Cyclists say the best way for motorists to make them feel safe on the road is to pass slowly and carefully.