CAMBRIDGE CRITICAL MASS

Tom | 14.06.2005 14:05 | Cambridge | London

Cambridge has a long heritage of bikes on the car clogged streets so why does it not have a critical mass?

This question has been puzzling me for a while now and as i got off the train back from the big smoke i saw all those bikes parked by the station..... and i thought that even if half those bikes turned up for a a critical mass in cambridge, we'd be a force to be reckoned with. I spend most of my time in London now but is there anyone out there that would like to get the non polluting wheels into motion. Come on, it would be great to see on the streets of cambridge. the mass chooses its route and anyone can have there say. It just needs a kind fellow to start the ball rolling and a couple of bikes and a sound system later CAMBRIDGE CRITICAL MASS..... just maybe.....

if anyone has any ideas then post a comment and lets get those clean machines on the road!

Tom

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Cambridge Critical Mass

14.06.2005 14:38

Clean machines!

www.camcycle.org.uk

Email the kind people at the Cambridge Cycling Campaign and lets get there support for a mass. Lets raise the profile of bikes throughout our fine city.

Other Sites:
www.criticalmasslondon.org.uk

Check it out for ideas, pics etc etc.

Tom

Bring it on...

14.06.2005 21:04

Sounds great...I'd be up for it. Maybe see if the Cambridge Action Network folks are up for it too?

https://cambridgeaction.net

a bike rider

Rumours

15.06.2005 10:53

Could somebody please confirm what i heard and that is that there is a mass every friday in cambridge. is this true? If so why is there no info about it?

Anyway, i will get i touch with the cambridge action network.

Cambridge Critical Mass....... it could happen....

Tom
mail e-mail: clean_machines@hotmail.co.uk

re:

15.06.2005 21:31

Does anyone remember Anti-Capitalist-Action?

We had a go at Critical Mass about 3 years ago. It worked quite nicely :-)

ex- Anti-Capitalist-Action activist

Re:

15.06.2005 23:14

how did you get it going and what was it like. It would be great to see it on the streets again and i reckon theres more than enough support.

And im liking the idea of a pre G8 toot around town.

IMCer

re:

16.06.2005 20:09

I was more involved in the street party we had at the same time, which got pretty much busted by the police. We should have known that holding the street party on the same day as that year's biggest animal rights demo would have meant LOTS of copper about town. So the street party didn't really go according to plan.

But the CRITICAL MASS was a success, from what I heard. It wasn't enormous, but they had enough people to make the mass critical.

It was promoted through leafletting, including leaving leaflets in a bicycle shop.

We had LOTS of fly posters and stickers as well.

Talk to the people at CAMBRIDGE INDYMEDIA (if reading this from the uk indymedia site then (obviously) follow the link from this indymedia site to the cambridge one and there'll probably be contact info somewhere).

Anyway, as I was saying, the cambridge indymedia crew might be worth talking to, I'm sure some of them remember the Critical Mass.

ex-aca