Slow Roll Week 2 - AsiaTown

After a record-smashing opening night ride from Wade Oval, we're ready to keep this thing rolling forward. Next week we'll give you a preview of the upcoming Cleveland Asian Festival, set to take place May 18-19 just a few blocks south of our starting location tonight. We'll be rolling through much of the surprisingly large and somewhat amorphous part of our city that can be called "AsiaTown," and we hope to give you a feeling for the culture and history that thrives here but is often sadly overlooked by people searching for "real Cleveland."

We're as real as it gets here at Slow Roll 216, and we're bringing next week's ride to you from the safe harbor of an abandoned parking lot, left to crumble by a local supermarket chain when it left behind its flagship store for greener and more expensive grass a couple of miles away. Neighborhoods being…