I agree, I am so over ridin in the rain. I am a *****, I hate mudd, rain, snow, and anything else that gets me dirty.

they were actually chucking the firecrackers? i thought everybody knew.. hhmm that's not cool..
i left at geary and polk though, so nothing fixed unfriendly for me tonight. its my first time riding CM so yeah it was still an experience!

me and my right arm give a big meh to cm too.

Nah.. SF critical mass was great. The ride sucked, but it usually sucks. You take off at 3mph down market while the activist types yell slogans and the agro types mix it up with drivers. There is always some naked guy, some kids doing a documentary, and Gino pumping the 80s hit. Invariably some yuppie lays down his USPS trek on the tracks and some out of towner eats it on the slotted grates. Later on you get to watch kids on $2k brakeless track bikes walk up and down russian hill. I think some brakeless rider actually lost it last night and nailed and trashed someone else's bike. CM always delivers spectacle/drama. Go at it like NASCAR: get drunk, heckle, and keep an eye out for the crashes.

yea last time i rode it i was one of the crashes. hence the comment about my right arm.. stupid stoned ass hippie on a mountain bike cut me off going down haight, snapped my arm in half. never riding cm again.

****... sorry to hear about the arm.

How do you find out about these critical mass things?

heh, no worries. its better now. now if only my leg would hurry up and get back to normal... helvetica - its always the lats friday of the month, meets at the same place same time. (embarcadero, infront of the ferry terminal, 5 i think)

its always on the last friday of the month.

where do they meet?

the plaza by the Hyatt hotel.

I still like the nice chill Berkeley mass and the Halloween mass in SF, but other fridays I'm going with the Montano Velo crew...actual riding, great folks, etc.

that would be my dumb ass After being successful with Lombard turns, I thought for sure I could tackle the next hill. Guess that hill had chuck norris on its side. Luckily, neither of us got hurt I ****ed up his back tire (not trashed the bike) and I gladly paid for a new back wheel.
So howz that for a polite crasher. eh?
as foolish as my attempt was, I am still riding the feelin of being a kid and riding down a steep hill on a bike/skateboard/roller skates/tire throwing caution to the wind. weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Good on you for being cool about the wheel. Taking 20% hills brakeless in the middle of a CM pack is not so fun. Not as much space to throw the bike sideways and no place to go if you pick up too much speed.

I don't know if CM would take em, but the neighborhood does have much worse hills. filbert is 32% grade going down from hyde. Anyone ever try a short skid contest to see who could take a hill and stop shortest? I guess there would have to be certain minimum time to cover filbert between hyde and leavenworth and whoever stops shortest after crossing leavenworth wins. I would certainly loose and possibly hurt myself, but it would be interesting to watch those who could pull it off.