I caught the Orlando group by chance on the last Friday of June after they'd completed a 6 mile ride. In the parking lot of Stardust, they did tricks, played games and made everyone watching with they had a bike. Or maybe it was just me?
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Critical Mass | Orlando
Critical Mass is a bicycling event typically held on the last Friday of every month in over 300 cities around the world (including Orlando!) While the ride was originally founded in 1992 in San Francisco with the idea of drawing attention to how unfriendly the city was to cyclists, the leaderless structure of Critical Mass makes it impossible to assign it any one specific goal. In fact, the purpose of Critical Mass is not formalized beyond the direct action of meeting at a set location and time and traveling as a group through city or town streets on bikes.
I caught the Orlando group by chance on the last Friday of June after they'd completed a 6 mile ride. In the parking lot of Stardust, they did tricks, played games and made everyone watching with they had a bike. Or maybe it was just me?
I caught the Orlando group by chance on the last Friday of June after they'd completed a 6 mile ride. In the parking lot of Stardust, they did tricks, played games and made everyone watching with they had a bike. Or maybe it was just me?
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I cannot believe I never knew about this. I've seen these cyclists riding down Princeton several times and never, ever knew why. Thanks, Mark. Can't wait to catch July's ride.
Cool! If anyone gets shots of them riding down the street next month, please send them in. I bet its a cool site to see.
I ride my bike to work every day and I participated in the last orlando CM. Occasionally, when I ride my bike to work, I'm hastled by motorists who don't think I belong on the road. This annoys me so I was excited to go to the CM because it would "raise awareness of bicycling". I was very disappointed and will never go on a CM again. Breaking the traffic rules and being obnoxious to motorists isn't the way to get THEM to respect OUR right to the road! Corking the greenlit motorists is illegal and just about got a cyclist run over yesterday. It is unreasonable to expect motorists to respect our right to the road by disrespecting theirs.
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