Rolling to Remember will move ahead without dedicated staging area

The Rolling to Remember event in D.C. planned for Memorial Day weekend may attract 50,000 bikers, but for now it’s moving ahead without a dedicated staging area.

Organizers first asked to use a Pentagon parking lot as a staging area, but were denied due to COVID-19 concerns. The event’s predecessor, Rolling Thunder, stopped hosting the annual event because they said securing the necessary permits was becoming too difficult.

The next idea was to use RFK stadium, but Joe Chenelly, national executive director of AMVETS, which is organizing the ride, said time has run out to wait on a waiver to use the…