Originally Posted by sfcrossrider
If it wasn't for CM San Francisco wouldn't have bike lanes. CM works in SF (it's birthplace) because of the nature of the city. It has it's good and bad points. Points aside, I'll be front and center for the Halloween ride. It always kicks @ss.
CM is a way of venting for me - gives some balance to my office desk job (I take BART to the City on CM Friday afternoon and it's always full of bikes). And it's a show of solidarity with other riders of all kinds of stripes. It's less interference with traffic than a baseball game. And Halloween CM in SF is the best. I love the guys who pull those Gigawatt sound system trailers.
Most drivers just sit back and accept their fate.
Some have fun with it, a few get irate.
Tourists and restaurant patrons pile into the street to watch and cheer and have their photos taken with us.