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Bike Film Festival started today.
'Bumped' into a lovely person on monday while attending the Avaaz.org climate change wake up call in parliament square. She enquired of me the meaning behind bikespotters.com printed on my t-shirt as she was interested in meeting up with other people in the bike world. Only recently arrived from Madrid she was still finding her way around and I was able to help her with information and a conversation developed that was really wide reaching in content and depth. The basis of which was our collective concern for the planet and our people on it.
We spoke of many events and places where bike people gathered and shared their common interest, one being this months Critical Mass meeting on friday.
With the promise of accompanying her to the event we exchanged details. Since then ,what with dealing with other matters it would appear the better choice of event for her and others would be to follow the BFF activities this week. Much to do and see. Very likely that is where bikespotters.com will be. Check it out.

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Kritikus tömeg, nagy szellemekkel

Sokak szerint kevesebben voltunk a téren ma, mint a korábbi Critical Mass-felvonulásokon, de szerintem valami érzékcsalódásról lehet szó, mert a bringás-görkoris felvonulók létszáma most is annyi volt, mint korábban. Más kérdés, hogy míg a fővárosi felvonulásokon többszörösére duzzadt az induló évben megszámlált tömeg, addig mi lényegében nem tudtuk elérni ezt a megsokszorozást.

Aztán fura volt Orosházáról hazajönni, el is érzékenyültem egy kicsit, nem szép dolog, de nem a város miatt, hanem csináltam egy számvetést, hogy vajon ez a város kapott-e tőlem igazán valamit az elmúlt húsz évben. Arra jutottam, hogy lényegében nem sokat, de ha másra nem is, de talán ezekre a bringás napokra - ami már a kilencedik volt - talán egy kicsit büszke lehetek...

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Critical Mass San Francisco - August 2009

Every last Friday of the month, there's a critical mass event in San Francisco. Many cyclists gather by and we just mass cycle throughout the city.  Lots of fun and good exercise (but many angry motorists) at the blocked traffic and all.

     

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A weekend of magic

via flickr.com

I think it's safe to say that the 16th Street Station in San Francisco is one of the fugliest BART stations in the network; however, one of the highlights of my FABULOUS weekend was snapping this shot during our wait for the train to Berkeley in said station.

→ The full photo set

Also this weekend I came across this wonderful troupe of street performers in front of Cliff's Variety in the Castro District. Here is one of their songs.

Finally, I highly recommend scoping out the margaritas at Velvet Cantina. The bartenders alone are worth the visit.

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Critical Mass January

Yeah - one less car. Come and join the ride.

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Critical Mass December

The next Critical Mass is happening on the 26th of Dec. A lot many riders will be out on the TFN, but there are probably enough in Bangalore to get the point across :)

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Critical Mass July 2008 Video... Cycling Band..

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San Francisco Critical Mass Bike Ride - July 2008

         

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Critical Mass Bike Ride - 17.8 miles in 2 1/2 hours

Last week, I did the critical mass bike ride (http://critical-mass.info/) for the first time. It is a mass bike ride where many cyclists just get together and take over the streets. They do it every last Friday of the month in San Francisco. It starts about 6p.m and goes on for however many miles you can ride :) There were about maybe some 200 cyclists or so that gathered at the Ferry Plaza on the Embarcadero and it was fun ride. I tracked the course with my garmin watch. Check out the route we took.

Press the play to re-run the entire route.

http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/player/6100924

more dashboard info : http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/6100924

The hardest part of the entire ride, was when I had to ride back home on my own. The adrenaline rush from the group setting was finished and my legs were like jello, but I still managed to get drag the bike back home. I plan to do it every month now.

   

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