a 30th Birthday Anniversary ride for Critical Mass London - Sunday 14/04/24

[nick]

 

[spitfire]

Videos going up on Insta now. Seems their favoured communication platform. Will be back with some Acid House Cycling Club members hopefully.

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Thanks for the heads up cm.london.30 Give us a shout next time there's a ride on.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Hope you all had a blast, CM selfishly holding this on the day I get back from the Caribbean meant was to fucked to go, looks like a great day and have always been 100% behind the ethos.

 

[jontz01]

Looked amazing. Cheers for the photos, wish I could've been there.

 

[Rebelda]

You went past my gaff and I had a lovely time reminiscing about CMs of the early 2000s explaining what it was to my daughter

 

[spitfire]

You went past my gaff and I had a lovely time reminiscing about CMs of the early 2000s explaining what it was to my daughter

Ah missed you sorry, would have waved, I chose to make a swift exit to drop off my heavy speaker back to my house and rejoin afterwards so would have been going quite fast at exactly that point.

 

[spitfire]

BTW that Critical Mass app works really well if anyone ever needs to use it.

 

[hash tag]

Patrick Field was one of the faces I remember from the early days. Also Barry Mason, rip

 

[cm.london.30]

Videos going up on Insta now. Seems their favoured communication platform. Will be back with some Acid House Cycling Club members hopefully.

Critical Mass London (@critical_mass_london) • Instagram photos and videos

9,998 Followers, 477 Following, 1,604 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Critical Mass London (@critical_mass_london)

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Thanks for the heads up cm.london.30 Give us a shout next time there's a ride on.

Friday 26th April at 7pm at the BFI !

 

[Ted Striker]

I should preface this with a bit of an admission - I'm a bit of an imposter here. I had never been to a Critical Mass before. I'm am absolutley very 'pro' it's cause, though I'm never in London on the day, or have generally deprioritised it, and/or might feel that it's a fairly tight knit community (and I am of the spandex and carbon (or vintage and steel) sub-tribes of cycling, not the laid back courier vets or wheelie kids that I assume make up most of the CM population...

...But that was an amazing day on the bike, I wish I could do it all over again. God bless the weather, too.

The togetherness and community spirit had a message beyond the promotion of cycling. Too many walks of life the (critical!) masses think they are alone, but when smart shit like this gets organised, it can unlock a powerful group that can show 'we' can be 'the many'.

Any day where you can cycle on closed roads - even from my amateur event do's like RideLondon - are a blessing, and combined with that real feeling of 'this city is ours', made it for a magical few hours on the bike. The feeling when you cycle past the first blocking (corking?), and being part of a giant (unorganised) mass of fellow cyclists, was genuinely pretty moving moment. One or two cyclists each time heroically held up 100's of cars, (all either irate at the delay or 'wtf' at what they were witnessing - 'where did you all come from'?) to ensure we all had our day. No fucks given. Today, there are more of us then you.

(And shouting "beep if you like Critical Mass' at said irate honking car drivers is still making me chuckle tbh )

 

[cm.london.30]

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