Western Canada - Vancouver critical mass rides

just wondering if anyone here has attended or are regulars on the CM rallies. another one coming up this friday, interesting how many BF'ers are out there.

i haven't gone on any yet, but probably will go this first for me.

Skytrain ride to downtown - $5.00
loudest ringading bell, and dressing up the bike - $10.00
Dahon MuSL - $1600
Disrupting Stanley Park Causeway traffic and dancing a jig midspan on the Lions Gate Bridge - Priceless!
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Skytrain ride to downtown - $5.00
loudest ringading bell, and dressing up the bike - $10.00
Dahon MuSL - $1600
Being a nuisance on Stanley Park Causeway traffic and dancing a jig midspan on the Lions Gate Bridge - Priceless!
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Fixed it for ya.
Actually by being a tool and blocking traffic causes millions of dollars in time wasted of delivering goods and services to various parts of the affected area. ;) Way to go.

Awesome photo, looks like the cops are part of the mass.

I am in Vancouver visiting my girlfriend. We rode it last Friday and had a good time.

Awesome photo, looks like the cops are part of the mass.i think the cops had as much fun as we did. chatted with several on different parts of the ride, and they seem to enjoy the duty. they slugged through the wet parts and up the hills with all of us.


:lol: Way to go. woohoo! Way to GO!! And GO CANUCKS!

Never been on a CM ride but maybe one day I'll check it out. There are pros and cons but on the whole I think I'm in favour.

CMs are just dumb. Might be a nice social outing, but you certainly learn nothing about riding a bike, other than how to avoid running into yahoos. Join a real cycling club and learn how to ride responsibly. CM is just too irresponsible and is one of these political fronts that turns people who ride bicycles into pawns. But then I'm not into mass demonstrations. Read Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, especially the part about why Sabena doesn't attend political rallies. That's my exact take.

Luis

Might be a nice social outing

I get the sense that for most participants here that's all it is.

I'm wary of mass demos too, and of being tarred with a slate of opinions by association, but sometimes there's nothing wrong with being a pawn. You can't win without pawns.

And I do think it's cool to have one evening a month with the streets full of bikes instead of cars.

it's just plain fun. if you try read too much into it, then forget it. but for a few hours it is just magical to ride without worrying about traffic.