So it was real nice to ride your bike without cars around. Good for you.

It would be real nice for me to drive a car without other cars around, but you dont see me turning into a self-important moron, breaking the laws and instigating anarchy.
I am biker too, but I happen to live in the real world. There are ways to affect change, and breaking laws and forcing your way through “Mob Rule” is not one of them.
I submit that Critical Mass does more harm to bikers (like me) than good.
To quote a Vancouver police officer when asked by a biker who was NOT participating in CM what was going on, “Well, these guys are using today to make the rest of the city hate you bikers the other 29 days out of the month too.”

Motorcyclists have long had issues with cars as well. They formed A.B.A.T.E. to much success, working WITH officials and the public, not against them.
To make fun of Critical Manners shows that you are more interested in either:
1) breaking the law and being able to get away with it (which is what many of the drunken riders here in San Diego seem to be doing), or
2) Simply “having a fun ride” rather than participating in an action that would benefit bikers as a whole.

There is no need to argue against option one if you are a mature person who wishes to live in a peaceful society. And if option two is where you are coming from, then you should ask yourself why you think agitating others is acceptable for YOU to have your fun.

I find it amusing that so many blogs and website site the “rude behaviour of motorists”. As a biker myself, I find the exact opposite to be true.
I have never seen a car nonchalantly blow right through a red light or stop sign like I will see my fellow cyclists do on the streets of San Diego on a daily basis.
I have had motorists wave me ahead, and stop for me when clearly the car had the right of way and I was prepared to wait for them.
Yet San Diego Critical Mass has a reputation as one of the worse in terms of its treatment to the motorists that it is affecting. That is no way to win people to your cause.

I am in the process of having a bright orange shirt made that reads in large letters upon its back: “Critical Mass Sucks: If you ride with them, so do you.” So I can wear it on my daily ride to work, so that drivers to do not mistake me with the misguided fools who participate in this travesty towards cycling.

So it was real nice to ride your bike without cars around. Good for you.

It would be real nice for me to drive a car without other cars around, but you dont see me turning into a self-important moron, breaking the laws and instigating anarchy.
I am biker too, but I happen to live in the real world. There are ways to affect change, and breaking laws and forcing your way through “Mob Rule” is not one of them.
I submit that Critical Mass does more harm to bikers (like me) than good.
To quote a Vancouver police officer when asked by a biker who was NOT participating in CM what was going on, “Well, these guys are using today to make the rest of the city hate you bikers the other 29 days out of the month too.”

Motorcyclists have long had issues with cars as well. They formed A.B.A.T.E. to much success, working WITH officials and the public, not against them.
To make fun of Critical Manners shows that you are more interested in either:
1) breaking the law and being able to get away with it (which is what many of the drunken riders here in San Diego seem to be doing), or
2) Simply “having a fun ride” rather than participating in an action that would benefit bikers as a whole.

There is no need to argue against option one if you are a mature person who wishes to live in a peaceful society. And if option two is where you are coming from, then you should ask yourself why you think agitating others is acceptable for YOU to have your fun.

I find it amusing that so many blogs and website site the “rude behaviour of motorists”. As a biker myself, I find the exact opposite to be true.
I have never seen a car nonchalantly blow right through a red light or stop sign like I will see my fellow cyclists do on the streets of San Diego on a daily basis.
I have had motorists wave me ahead, and stop for me when clearly the car had the right of way and I was prepared to wait for them.
Yet San Diego Critical Mass has a reputation as one of the worse in terms of its treatment to the motorists that it is affecting. That is no way to win people to your cause.

I am in the process of having a bright orange shirt made that reads in large letters upon its back: “Critical Mass Sucks: If you ride with them, so do you.” So I can wear it on my daily ride to work, so that drivers to do not mistake me with the misguided fools who participate in this travesty towards cycling.

Off the top of my head, I can’t think of any awesome streets to take over in DC, although I used to have fun going down Massachusetts on the sidewalk. Bigelow is almost equivalent to riding around on the Beltway, maybe more like New York Ave coming into the city.