Critical mass this Friday 29th Dec
nes | 27.12.2006 16:29 | Climate Camp 2006 | Ecology | Free Spaces | Health | Sheffield
The next critical mass bike ride in Manchester is Friday 29th December
We suspect lots of santa's will be on bicycles!
We suspect lots of santa's will be on bicycles!
Critical Mass: last friday of the month 6pm at central library
After this one the next dates are:
jan 26 ('07), feb 23, mar 30, apr 27, may 25
We cycle round the city to celebrate the bicycle:
It's for anyone that rides a bike;
Its a celebration of getting round the city without polluting it;
Its about every journey being an adventure instead of just sitting on a boring bus or in a stressful car;
Its about cyclists riding together to demand more respect from other road users;
Its a way to meet other cyclistas;
also at that time on friday hundreds of cities around the world do the same thing...all get together for critical mass. its beautiful to know that as you ride with your mates through your own city that all around the world thousands of people are doing the same thing.
The next manchester critical mass cycling club bicycle ride will be on Sunday January 28th (the sunday after Jan CM)
There will be two parts to the ride. If you want a real long ride then meeting in Manchester to ride out to the peaks. If you want less of a long ride then catch a train with your bike to the peaks and we'll all meet for a nice ride and lunch. Details will be posted here very shortly.
Everyone welcome!
After this one the next dates are:
jan 26 ('07), feb 23, mar 30, apr 27, may 25
We cycle round the city to celebrate the bicycle:
It's for anyone that rides a bike;
Its a celebration of getting round the city without polluting it;
Its about every journey being an adventure instead of just sitting on a boring bus or in a stressful car;
Its about cyclists riding together to demand more respect from other road users;
Its a way to meet other cyclistas;
also at that time on friday hundreds of cities around the world do the same thing...all get together for critical mass. its beautiful to know that as you ride with your mates through your own city that all around the world thousands of people are doing the same thing.
The next manchester critical mass cycling club bicycle ride will be on Sunday January 28th (the sunday after Jan CM)
There will be two parts to the ride. If you want a real long ride then meeting in Manchester to ride out to the peaks. If you want less of a long ride then catch a train with your bike to the peaks and we'll all meet for a nice ride and lunch. Details will be posted here very shortly.
Everyone welcome!
nes
e-mail:
mcrcriticalmass@yahoo.co.uk
Homepage:
http://velorution.x21.org.uk
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it was great
30.12.2006 15:31
We met at the usual time and place of 6pm at central library in Manchester city centre. There were ten of us, numbers being a bit low becasue many people had gone to other towns and cities for christmas and new year, but making up the numbers we had people from Aberdeen, York and Swansea!
We rode around the roads for an hour and a half with the bicycle soundsystem playing a mixture of Slayer and Country/ folk. Some people cheered us and some drivers tried to kill us by dangerously overtaking us and driving on the wroong side of the road nearly into on-coming cars.
One woman said that we were being mean to her children becasue we were slowing her down and so I explained that we were celebrating bikes over car culture because amongst other things (and in addition to other groups of society) cars give children asthma and run them over and so maybe she should support us, also when she did overtake us slowing down an ambulance that we were making space to get through she didnt get very far, about 200 yards to the next lights! She would have been quicker on a bike (of course!) Oh well.
It was a fun ride and nice that some new people came on it. Hopefully we'll see them again. After the ride some of us went for a beer in the bar. nice.
nes