Is it Critical Mass tonight? And if so is it a Hallowe'en version? And if so what time does it start?
So many questions. Can't really do the ride, but thought I might be able to swing by the start and grab some fun pictures.
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Critical Mass Tonight?
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Posted 14 years ago #
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Well, since nobody responded to my "who's attending" question on other threads I had forgotten it was tonight and probably will not do another one now as the clock change will see darker evenings.
See you next year I guess.Posted 14 years ago # -
Ah, sorry about that - I'm a bit in and out of the forum at the moment. Although as I say I couldn't hang around tonight.
Was outside at 6.30 last night thinking 'ah, this is how dark it will be for me leaving work from next Monday'.
Posted 14 years ago # -
What I've often thought would be a good alternative to these is something less Critical Mass and more sort of Unavoidable Significant Proportion. Instead of everyone collecting at a single starting point and travelling slowly around as a single bolus, for a given time period everyone could travel independently and at their own speed around a smallish but busy specified area, observing all signs, rules and regulations and so forth and being all nice and polite and visible. The extra density of cycles would ensure they would be noticeable to all but the most desperately unobservant of motorists. It would encourage cylists to watch out (take care) for other cyclists (arranging beforehand to nurse n00bs or the nervous through junctions and between lanes etc.) as well as watch out (eyes peeled) for other cyclists by not doing anything too selfish. There'd be no single mass for drivers to be trapped behind at 5mph but the volume and frequency of cycles could hopefully persuade them to stay behind the rearmost of several cyclists all doing between 12-25mph rather than attempting to pass each one immediately-just-to-get-past-the-cyclist, rather than waiting for a safe and sensible opportunity as they'd hopefully be forced to do if there were several cycles in front of them.
Posted 14 years ago # -
"Not tonight, Josephine ..." ;)
Posted 14 years ago # -
yah its tempting but quite apart from everything else its too darn slow. I think we need to repackage the whole idea like mobile social
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Posted 13 years ago #
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those tyres (girl with silver helmet and shades, centre) would look nice on Anth's Cotic.
Posted 13 years ago #
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