Originally Posted by randya

People who have participated on the rides are going to tell you all kinds of different things about what CM means to them. One thing which is certain to me is that CM is an agent for change, something we desperately need in our society to break the hegemony of the personal motor vehicle, and something which no mainstream bicycle advocacy group is genuinely willing to take on.

Originally Posted by randya

you're just another know-nothing spewing a bunch of conflated hyperbole. CM is simply a monthly celebration of bikes, and a demonstration that other alternatives to SOVs are possible. It's not trying to 'win anyone over' or convince anyone of anything otherwise, it's just a bunch of normal people together on a bike ride. Despite the over-the-top police and medial responses, the vast majority of motorists respond positively. Your average motorist is much more likely to encounter and be enraged by a weekly lycra roadie club fred ride on a suburban/exurban road than by a two-hours-a-month critical mass ride in the urban center.