so the ride last night went really well. i was nervous when i was riding up to the meeting area and saw some bikers ride through a 4-way stop (with no cars in sight) and get immediately blasted by two motorcycle cops over their bullhorns "STOP YOUR BICYCLES AT ALL STOP SIGNS!"

luckily though they didn't ticket the riders.

there were cops there no doubt, but all on mountain bike patrol (whom weren't happy AT ALL when i rode by them at critical mass and said, "one is all you need fellas, one gear.".. why don't they ever shift out of that old man gear they always ride in?))

anyways... only had motorcycles blocking major intersections for us... which in some ways was pretty fresh. the bike cops followed us all the way to the footdown comp. at the end of the ride, but didn't stay for too long. I WISH THEY WOULD HAVE PLAYED... some people get owned during "hands off bars".. but playing footdown against legal gangsters with pistols would have sucked anyhow. jocks.

all in all, nobody was harrassed at all as far as i know. and it was a pretty good comeback ride after the nightmare of last week.

so the real ***** went down at some anti-police brutality bike ride on monday in front of the police station where a cop piņata was beaten with maglights and had donuts stuffed inside it. i guess there was some serious chalk graffitti drawn everywhere too that the chief of po-po is SERIOUSLY NOT HAPPY about... but i wasn't there for it, so i don't know the good details.