For the past week, national champion and cyclocross superstar Tim Johnson has thrown his leg over his bike for some hard training. But this time he’s not riding to improve his own cycling; he’s riding to improve bicycling for everybody else. The Tim Johnson’s Ride on Washington ended today after starting March 15. The five-day event, in its second year, is an invitational bike ride for 20 riders that covers a span of 520 miles beginning in Boston and making stops in Hartford, New York City, Philadelphia and Baltimore before ending at the National Bike Summit in Washington D.C. The ride has raised funds and awareness for the Bikes Belong Foundation.

Tim Johnson created the Ride on Washington after first attending the National Bike Summit in 2010. In 2011, he recruited seven riders to pedal from Boston to Washington, and scores of additional riders joined in along the way. New this year, Tim encouraged the general public to join the last five miles of the ride in street wear, with no spandex required, to the National Bike Summit on Capital Bikeshare bikes. The ride brings together advocates, industry leaders, and racing clubs at nightly receptions in each host city in an effort to raise local awareness about national bike initiatives. The event also aims to create discussion and attention around the social and health benefits of bicycling.

Tim Johnson created the Ride on Washington after first attending the National Bike Summit in 2010. In 2011, he recruited seven riders to pedal from Boston to Washington, and scores of additional riders joined in along the way. New this year, Tim encouraged the general public to join the last five miles of the ride in street wear, with no spandex required, to the National Bike Summit on Capital Bikeshare bikes. The ride brings together advocates, industry leaders, and racing clubs at nightly receptions in each host city in an effort to raise local awareness about national bike initiatives. The event also aims to create discussion and attention around the social and health benefits of bicycling.

SRAM is the title sponsor of the event. Other major sponsors of the event include Bicycling magazine, Cannondale, CatEye, Firefly Bicycles, Fuji Bicycles, Mad Alchemy and Red Bull.