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I'm not going to disagree that there's way too much of that shit around, but after a bit of a look at the ride organisers and aims, it's not aimed at that specifically but it's certainly hard to separate some military dickheads with a reasonably good cause in mind from the cosplaying twats. Much as it's hard to separate is military haters like us from the occasionally necessary evil I'm glad other people take part in so I don't have to. I'm not sure the wall of remembrance itself is glorifying war, I'm not sure the ride aimed at raising money to maintain it is, some of the dickheads contributing money to it may well be doing so but that doesn't necessarily rule out the whole thing as bad.
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Glorifying is what it's all about, though. If people wanted to genuinely do honour to the dead, they'd be agitating to make sure the lives of the living aren't wasted the same way. What we get instead is this necrophiliac virtue signalling and cosplay, from people who aren't so much honouring the dead as co-opting them to support nostalgia-soaked conservative politics.