Last night, I did my last Critical Mass in Chicago. For those of you who don't know, critical mass is a big bike ride the last Friday of the month. Hundreds of people come out (more in the summer, less in the winter, the most on Halloween) and start downtown, riding wherever the people at the front take us. Last night we went to the southside and ended up on the beach. The Chicago skyline was amazing. It was a nice finale. http://chicagocriticalmass.org/
The first time I ever heard of Critical Mass, I was eating an early dinner in Amsterdam. All of the sudden everyone left the restaurant. Salmonella? Dine and dash? I decided to follow them to see a giant bike parade and people lining the streets to watch, cheer and videotape. "Vas ist das?" I asked in the worst German anyone has ever heard. "It's Critical Mass," explained the very polite Dutch passerby in perfect English, "it's a bike ride on the last Friday of the month." "Das ist megaguile!" I switched to bad Swiss. "Tot zeins!" (this is all fiction, the only other language I knew how to speak badly at the time was spanish)
Once Jen G. and I started a Critical Mass in Tahoe. We started out with about 20 riders (alot for our first ride, we thought!). We began at Stateline, rode through the Y and ended at Divided Sky, a bar named after a Pink Floyd song. (for anyone who knows South Lake Tahoe, that means no hills). It was fun. It might still be happening, in the summer of course when there are no 8-foot berms of snow in the way.
I'm looking forward to riding the Boston C.M.s.
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dsky is named after the phish song... thus all the blue turtle, etc... :)
Phish, Pink Floyd, is there really a difference?
:)
critical mass in chicago is gezellig! the best in the nation because people are tolerant of it. not so much in sf unfortunately which is kinda ironic, dont you think? i miss critical mass in chicago:(
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