Velolove Announcements!. Midnight Mass Bike Ride. Solstice Critical Mass Ride and Roll. Velofusion Critical Mass Partyo=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=oCheck these out [Santa Mass]:youtube.com/watch?v=KmsOIjzQ1V8specialized.com/bc/microsite/holiday/lists.velolove.bc.ca/.../20061221/3d34cb3d/attachment.jpgo=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=oMidnight Mass

X Mass? Dec29

Critical X-Mass:picture of the pumpkin chariot/santa sled march 2001, not dressedup. The chariot is pulled by 8 pedalling 'reindeer.'So once again December Mass is upon us. December 29th, last friday of the month. This is the one ride of the year that is always going to be smaller, because of the time of year and people's holidays. It is important to make it fun, especially if the weather is

BikeCraftFairSale

BikeCraftSunday December 1712 - 5pmS.G. Sahulka & C.G.N. Fisherpresent a craft event celebrating the art of bikes and bike ridersthe event will be held at Spartacus Books at 319 W. Hastings St.bikecraft.blogspot.comWhile you are thinking of the biking art then why not checkout redsara's art show online and at The Foundation

Harmonizer! Saturday December 16

MOMENTUM MAGAZINE PARTYBoogie down with your bike-riding homies as we celebrate the 25th issue ofMomentum, the Magazine for Self-propelled People.Witness the premiere of CLANCY'S ANGELS ­ a postmodern rock gospelsuper-group with power choir ­ performing both spirituals and monumentalsongs by Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, George Harrison and others.The REVOLUTIONISTS will rock the dance floor at

China Creek Needs You!

The fabulous Pedal Revolutionary Radio blog has some great information and the picture on this issue.from The Nerve magazine:If you cycle the 10th ave bike route past Clark, chances are you've been to China Creek and already know what's been going on. It's a classic example of us not being taken seriously and it's complete horseshit. Maybe you've been going to the meetings for the last... what..

Church of Pointless Consumerism

Hallo, No holiday season is complete without the righteous word!Apologies if it's old news; please circulate otherwise!~ CHristine :-)The Church of Pointless Consumerism has rolled into town! The much anticipated hilarious, satirical, musical theatre extravaganza produced by the movers and shakers of the Work Less Party has set a date. The gospel and fervor will be spreading through December 15th

Velolove Announcements!

. Ontario Street at 2nd Avenue Median Open House. Pedal Revolutionary Bike Radio!. Basic Bike Repair Workshop. BEST Open House. Free Black-tie Bicycle Tuneups. Intro to Bike Mechanics for Women. Pedal Galactic. Midnight Mass Bike Ride. Harmonizer Momentum Party!o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=oOntario Street at 2nd Avenue Median Open HouseFriday, December 1The city is

You Never Bike Alone Movie Premiere!

Feature-length Documentary Glimpses Future VancouverYou Never Bike Alone is a feature length documentary by ICYCLE.CA Film Productions, looking at the ways in which cyclists are building critical mass in Vancouver.Venue - Rio Theatre, 1660 E. Broadway (at Commercial), next to the Skytrain station, B-line and other bus routes.Doors - 1:30pm, film starts 2:00pm, Sunday 26th NovemberTickets - $8 at

Nov24 Massycle Criticism

Let's gather for critical mass this month. Even in the dark drizzle. Wecycle all year and not only on nice days. Because cycling makes every day nice.But we also have to fight for the right to bike. Because cars do killpeople. And they choke our blue skies. And they are so very expensive tolive besides.FRIDAY JUNE 24THIN THE STREETS OF VANCOUVERGATHER STARTING AT 5PMLEAVE AT 6PMFROM THE VANCOUVER

A highway-busting PARTY

[please post this and pass it on]ATTN: www.gatewaysucks.org is now live! Please visit the site and subscribe to get in the loop about highway-busting parties, events and actions to come.Celebrate the beginning of the end of the highway by shakin' your ass to the pavement-poppin' beats at the firstSTOP THE HIGHWAYDance PartyPresented by Velofusion and the Work Less Party :: a benefit for

Pedal Revolutionary Radio Show needs your $upport

Until the end of this Friday, CiTR is having its first-ever funding drive (er, ride?).Please support your hardworking neighbourhood radio bikers. Your donations will mean new equipment for the station, socks for the orphans, & will send a clear message to CiTR that our show has actual real humans listening out there who love bikes.Our show has been around for 6 years now. It's time to give us

Tim Harvey, zero-emissions world traveller

Homecoming Ride - Sunday, November 12, 200610 am - Science Worldfinishing at 12 noon - Planetarium at Vanier ParkOn Sunday, November 12th, join zero-emissions traveller Tim Harvey when he completes a round-the-world endurance expedition, cycling into Vancouver after 893 days away from home.Friends, supporters and the public are invited to meet Harvey at 10 a.m. outside Vancouver's Science World

Fwd: Port Mann/Highway 1 Project Draft Terms of Reference

As usual, this is simply a formality. It would be good to write letters and generally make a big public fuss about this, however you think best. Note the funny disclaimer at the end, as if getting on the Online Gateway Survey email list is private or something. Can we please have George Bush and these highway building monsters in jail please already. Ever notice the weather? ~rusl From: "

Halloween Critical Mass Ride and Roll!

Friday, October 27, 2006Join fellow scarry bicyclists, skaters, and bladers for a costumed ride and roll through the streets of Vancouver. The Halloween ride is one of the most fun Critical Mass rides of the year! Meet at the Vancouver Art Gallery on the Georgia Street side between 5:00 and 5:30 p.m., and roll and ride at 6:00 p.m. The ride is on rain or shine!And of course, decorated bicycles,

HaloVeloWe'en

Muah hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!1. Halloween Critical Mass Ride and Roll!2. VeloWeen!3. Pedal Revolutionary Bike Radio!4. Midnight Mass Bike Ride5. Canadian Troops Out of Afghanistan Rally and March6. Car-Free Parade of the Lost Souls7. Our Community Bikes (OCB) Halloween Party!8. Call for Submissions -- Momentum 25o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=oFriday, October 27,

BC Ferries misses the boat...again!

From: dave olsen British Columbia Ferry Services Inc. (a.k.a. BC Ferries) recently announced a $28 million dollar "upgrade" to four loading bays at Horseshoe Bay (near West Vancouver) and Departure Bay (near Nanaimo).  This followed an announcement that they were having three new giant car- and truck-carrying ferries made in Germany (which will NOT create work for the very

Bicycle Bee kicks off Tomorrow!

Hey kids - the time has finally come: we're kicking off the bicycle bee tomorrow.If you haven't heard, the bike bee is a community created set of bike related workshops, coupled with a weekend long bike buildathon (don't have a bike, but need one? come on down and build one up) and custom/chopper buildathon (who doesn't want to build a chopper..?!). All workshops and bike building are by donation

URGENT: GWAC neighbourhood elections, THIS Weds Oct 11

I was forwarded this by people who put on the Carfree Commercial Drive Fest. I know and trust them, though I don't know much about this GWAC thing. I know of a lot of people on this list. I obviously agree with organising to protect us from motorway expansion. Of course, you should always make up your own mind, and not be blindly partisan. ~ruslPlease forward to all neighbours!NOTICE of

video June 2003 ride?

Does anybody have video of the big June 2003 ride, the 1000 wheels ride[where we had 1600 wheels!]. Then Mayor Larry Campbell was at this ride.Surely someone captured some images of this. Even photos?If you do have any leads on this please contact Bob atwww.youneverbikealone.comThis is for the film history of VancouverCM

Protect the Ontario Bikeway from Car Traffic, Salisbury Cob House

"the developer has won the right once more to develop and at this point the rest of us have very little other options as he is still refusing to sell the garden to allow it to become a PArk. maByE IF WE GARNER ENOUGH ATTENTION WE STILL MIGHT have a chance....to have this garden for all of us, once and for all. If this DOes not happen you might want to consider visiting the garden one last time

now mass sept 29

Do you believe in Global Warming?Do you really have to?Breath the air, walk the street, try to talk in the street.There are plenty of angles towards carfree cities.........................................Critical Mass is but one approach. We need more and many. We need to have mass rapid transit that is affordable, focused on moving people, and mayors that ride their bikes, as in Bogotà. Toronto

Bike lanes prevent over-correction by drivers...

This is an interesting study. Actually looking at bike lanes in use!? It is interesting to see the goals of the project: more lawful compliance, less disruptions to the path of the car, seem to be the primary goals of the project. The aspect of safety - not riding on the sidewalk - is not really studied but previous ideas are reinforced about it. I think a norrow lane for cars at the side of the

LEESIDE 360: A GATHERING OF THE ELEMENTS

Darn it, I missed this when I was out of town. Anybody go? Stay tuned forfuture events I'm sure.Anti-violence hip-hop showcase in honour of Lee Matasi, featuring CurtisClearsky, In:Stead, Brigee K, Tameem Barakat, Influents Crew, and 49thPeril, with graffiti artists, DJs, and breakdancers. Sept. 24, 1-6 pm,Leeside Tunnel (east of PNE in Hastings Park, underneath Hastings St.).Free admission, info

free animation workshop @ PT!

with animation, one can actualize an imagined utopia, inspiring new worlds:we need more bicycle/car-free animation!(It is an intense but satisfying process, these are good teachers)THE PURPLE THISTLE WILL BE HOSTING YET ANOTHER !!**FREE**!! ANIMATION COURSE!this is the third of a series of free workshops organized by rickie leaowens and stephen wichuk which promote and facilitate the makin

Conference done

Still the problems with the 0000s and 1111s does anyone know of a good file recovery solution for mac OSX [like undelete style, but not manually reconstructing unix inodes], or for that matter, a linux or even wine compatible utilify to undel a vfat flash drive?I'll put up my stories here soon. Bogota is amazing!ciclovia total des días(meaning car-free-cycling-sundays every day!)<<

a wonderful long first day

I`m too pooped to write much. But I figgured out how to post photos!I didn`t get much sleep as we went to bed at 2 and got up at 6am because the time zone confused us and we thought it was 7am. Also, no luggage! Continental is a bad airline for just dropping you with nothing! Other than that, things are awesome. I think fear of Columbia is overstated. Also much has improved since 1995 when they

Safe in Bogota

Well, here I am. The journey was fine except that my bags didn´t make it! I`m glad that I didn`t bring my bike and have them lose that. I have to phone the airport tommorrow and then go back there tommorrow night and hopefully they will have my stuff.I got there extra early because of all the toothpaste paranoia at the airport. But it turns out the check in gate wasn`t open until 6am anyways. The

towards world car free day

September 22nd is World Carfree Day. In Vancouver, it means almost nothing. Because nothing has been organised to make it happen. Again. I thought things were going in the right direction when the city project OneDay took up the cause. But they dropped the ball. People really should complain!As a cyclist however, there is lots of fun to be had with the Bike Love Weekend climaxing in the

The First International Alley Kitten challenge!

Hello bike loving friends.I'm here to bring you word of much wonder and excitement soon to be taking place. Thursday the 21st of september to Sunday the 24th will be four days of bikelove as vancouver bikers come together for the Velomutation weekend. We're even throwing an extra midnight mass that weekend to keep the love flowing! (that's right kids, 3 midnight masses in september! plan on

Early September Bike Events

Back to school and work for cycling commuters.If you are new to this and want tips or support with your cycle commute try calling BEST 604-->669-2860. They do have a program of supporting workplaces becoming more bike friendly. Though it's not the most sociable organisation.If you are a UBC student: check out the nonprofit Bikecoop Bike Kitchen in the basement of the SUB, ph 604*827=7333At SFU:

Call To Worship--Saturday Bike Church Worship Service--sponsored by Ted and Kyle. Come for Cider Floats, wheel truing contests, and backwards riding

This is from Ted Buehler in Davis California, but it is so funny I had to put it here... Lest ye worry that the jokes are only for ex-Xians, notice the "Rabbi Tai" leading the group too.Tomorrow's worship service might be a bit sleepy with so many people out of town. So here's the deal. In addition to the usual Blessing Of The Bicycles we'll have some other activities to entice any homebodies

Next Meeting to Plan October Bike Building Bee

invitation:WHAT IS IT?The vision so far includes chopper building, regular bike building, and other bike-related workshops, storytelling, social space, a satellite party, food. Satellite Workshops? We have defined some ideas already. It will not be the bee all end all - everything to everybody; it will bee a lot of things. We aren't going to get burnt out by an overly huge event. We hope this

Mass Days of Summer

This FridayAugust 25thLast Mass of the Hot SeasonBike Skate 'Blade Trot Tumble Roll Rock TalkIn the streets of VancouverTime for Bikes! I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease... observing a spear of

Plan October Bike Building Bee

iNVITE:Hello good people,Invitation.Planning is just beginning for aBike Building Eventin October. (Date proposed Oct 20, 21, 22.)WHAT IS IT?The vision so far includes chopper building, regular bike building, andother bike-related workshops. Also featuring a party (at Simon's place) andrumours of food provided for the weekend. Probable location PedalPlay andDepot spaces, plus Simon's place.

the midnight mass is an underwear affair!

First ever MIDNIGHT UNDERWEAR RIDE! Thats right - this thursday come out prepared to put your pedals to the metal in your skivvies - or if you're shy, at least laugh at (with!) those who do! Tighty whiteys, fancy lace, corset, boxers, christmas undies, bras bras bras, undershirts, thongs, granny undies, stockings, the list goes on - Midnight Mass loves variety in underwear almost as much as we

august CM virgo

So a bunch of people have been planning this theme for august after party.I'm not sure how this fits with the hurrican climate change themes those americans are asking us to promote. Oh well. I don't really 'get' the whole virgo/virgin idea. Never thought much of grouping people by birthday. But I think they have put a lot of energy into it, it will be a rad party even if the concept is strange.-

august hurricane theme

From: Mike Hudema, Global Exchange itstimetoriseup@=at=@gmail,comDear fellow critical masser:I am writing to you in hopes that you will help us with an internationalcritical mass call out. This August on the last Friday of the month(traditional critical mass time) is the 1 year anniversary of whenKatrina hit New Orleans. We are hoping that you will join with us inmaking your mass a mass for

Socialist CM June06 Video

From, Percy who also made a video last year I think, [though I've lost that link]. Nice soundtrack [I especially like the Chumbawamba]. And an interesting perspective. Why does it say every June at 6pm instead of EVERY MONTH at 5:30pm?youtube.com/watch?v=MMwFS3OvvyASome text Percy also sent with the link.I have no idea what it is supposed to mean:I AM, commonly known as Percy of the von Lipinski

Carfree Day Vancouver 2006

Hey!What is the plan?Last year onedayvancouver did a very elaborate expensive kind of thing which was fun, if under attended. [actually it was all popular except for some of the stage shows]This year the the Towards Carfree Cities VI conference in Bogota, Columbia is coinciding [the 20th-24th]. I'm going! Do you want to come? Or contribute to the cause?What about Vancouver. Is oneday having a

Tonight Animated Bike-In Movies

Animated Bike-In MoviesThursday August 17th, 2006 at 10:00pm300 Block W. Hastings, Vancouver, CSTAdmission by donationOn August 17th the Hungry Ghost and allies present a one night international festival of short animation in a sentimentally important vacant lot. The night will feature nearly two hours of experimental animation from Canada, the U.S. and Germany, with a number of local artists in

Mass Critical the... Abbotsford?!?!

Abbotsford Critical MassWednesday, August 16Abbotsford's critical mass ride is growing -- 26 last time and hoping for 50 this time -- on Wednesday, August 16, 7:00 p.m. at the Bike Shop on Ware Street.The more people that come out the better for cycling awareness. Spread the word! Pass on this email!For the August 16 ride we invite the Abbotsford Police Bike Squad and local dignitaries to ride

[Fwd: skytrain party]

Did you hear about this?---RISE OF THE ROBOTS! SKYTRAIN PARTYFRIDAY, AUGUST 18th 2006Meet @ VCC/Clark station @ 9:09 PM$free + all ages!For more info, e-mail love @ newmindspace.com please leave no tracelisten to translink workers no smoking :)You may join the party at any Millennium station, but the fun starts at VCC/Clark :)newmindspace.com/

Carlane

Wouldn't this be great?

Car-Free Art Crawl – more FUN, FOR FREE!

Art About the DriveA Car-Free Art Crawl featuring images of the Commercial Drive FestivalThursday August 10th, 5 pm onwardsOn Sunday June 18th, the second annual Car-Free Commercial DriveFestival brought 50,000 people out to play in the street – East Vanstyle. The Commercial Drive Festival was a glorious party representing all thecultures and subcultures that make up our kaleidoscopic

nice comix

right click and view image to see the comic undistorted:

Bikes, Skytrain and Celebration of Lights

It has come to my attention that on the evenings of fireworks, cyclists are not permitted on skytrains until all the foot passengers has been transported. This means a 90 minute delay for cyclists! How unfair is this!!!! It is the cyclists that are making efforts to reduce traffic congestion on the streets! and we get treated like second class citizens on skytrain! Grrrrr... Wheelman.

antiprowarpaper

Funny thing, the Vancouver Scum printed a little plug for Critical Mass:Great picture and a nice inclusive caption. Kudos for picking up the story one of these decades. I think it is actually a picture of the bike the purple pirate and smiling yogi used to cycle across canada.However, I can't help feel a little torn about being advertised in a publication that is so openly pro-war, especially in

Pride Mass Ride Friday

Well, July sure sweltered by quickly, is it already time for another last friday of every month mass?This FridayJuly 28meet at vancouver art gallery5:30pm leave 6pmall self propelled peoples welcomedbike, skate, blade, uni, trike...reclaim the streets for fun, peaceful, social debate.this months ride is the pride ride queer theme. so dress up and be fabulous.more details will be posted soon.

Central Valley Greenway Ride Description: Trout Lake Park, East of 14th Ave and Victoria St.BEST invites you to join an enjoyable guided ride of the Central Valley Greenway. Come early to learn more about the Greenway and to meet other riders. All are welcomed.'Registration' is at 9am.Please wear a helmet. Bring a picnic lunch. Info: 669-->2860 or www.best.bc.ca Date: Saturday, July 22,

Bikesexual BENT July 18

East Van's non-profit queer dance party presents an event for all you glamorous queers with gears: Bikesexual BENT! You know we couldn't just do a regular party on two wheels, so we've cheesed it up for you a bit:Imagine flashdance, the solid gold dancers or maybe even footloose and then turn it into a fixie. A party with glitz, glam, lots of gold lame and more hott homo bike geeks rocking out on

New Pedal Revolutionary Radio Blog

There has been created a new blog of the Pedal Revolutionary Radio Show on CiTR 101.9fm (also streaming internet).The blog features frequent updates including from the last show coverage of the June Critical Mass in Vancouver, Seattle, Winnipeg, Victoria, Portland and Calgary!Event Details:Pedal Revolutionary Radio5-6pm alternating ThursdaysCiTR 101.9 fm radio UBCAlso Cable 102 and CiTR

BC superweek

Tour de Gastown, Tour de White Rock and Tour de Delta. A full week of bicycle races July 15th-23rd!I'm not much of a roadie. These are sure to be corporate events. However, proceeds to BC-Cancer foundation [who have a spiffy cyclist on the webpage]. I'm a little jaded about such charity fundraising, I went on Ride for a Reason in 1997 and back then the 'proceeds' of the event were only about 10%

July 28 Mass

This is planned for July. I'm putting the theme out there to be non-elitist. And also because nothing is set in stone and to invite others to help plan the ride. Some want to make the Gateway project Highway opposition a theme too, which is important.---JULY MASS PRIDE RIDEFriday, July 28th, 2006gather 5:30pm, leave 6pmVancouver Art Gallery, Downtown[Fountain side]All proud pedallers and

2006 CM video + pictures

a video by margonaut (with some pretty dry narration)more pictures:tony-cliff.livejournal.com new!solkauffman.blogspot.com already on this blog with commentaryflickr.com/...sets/72157594183589057anarchocyclistkashetskygroups/vancriticalmass I don't know why all the flickr photos aren't showing up hereflickr.com/search/?q=vancouver+critical+mass so you might have to use thisPlease Feel Free to

Cyclist Killed by Auto, Come to the Funeral

Hello,A Surrey Cyclist was killed by an automobile in a very preventable accident!!!The memorial service for the cyclist, Ben Farrent is at7:00 JULY 11th, 2006Cedar Grove Babtist Church10330 144 Street Surrey BC604 >>>581.8933Directions: Take Expo line to Surrey Center and then take a 10 minute bus ride on the 320 bus to 144 street.Summary: Ben Farrent was computer programer who volunteered his

Drive Fest Reunion & AFTERBASH!

Come play in the street - East Van style!Car-Free Commercial Drive Festival REUNION & AFTERBASHThursday July 13, 9 pm to 1 am The WISE Hall, Adanac at VictoriaSexy techno tagteam GRANNY'ARC and SEALEGS (9-11pm), hot performances by LITTLE WOO and velovixens THE B:C:CLETTES (11-11:30 pm), bootie- shaking beats by TIMOTHY WISDOM (11:30-1am), plus whacked out bicycle stuff, potential nudity,

Sol's July '06 CM Pictures + Thoughts

This year's July CM apparently had a turnout of over 1800 people!Beginning (courtesy David Kauffman 06/30/06)I participated last year but, this year I took a much more active role, bungee-cording a guitar amp on the back of my bike and plugging it into an iPod, thereby providing tunes for the ride.Faithful Steed (courtesy David Kauffman 06/30/06)This year's mass was a huge turnout. I got great

Over 3600 Wheels!

Yesterday's Critical Mass was phenomenal!It was sooo big. I could never tell if I was at the front or the back of the ride.Here is a heads up on a few sites where Mass pictures are often posted in the past - links to pictures from this month's ride, june 3000 wheels, are in the comments of this article:flickr.com/groups/vancriticalmassianpaterson.orgclubtread.ca/sforumgeocities.com/

30 June 3000 Wheels!

end june bike month righton the last friday june 30thWITH A 3000 WHEELED CRITICAL MASS!big giant bike ride for 2000+6that is, 1500 bikers, 3000 unicyclists375 rollerskaters, 750 longboards, 1000 tricycles, or...friendly festive fun, 5pm gatherin the streets, 6pm leave the vancouver art galleryBRING A WATERGUN OR TOY, ALL WELCOMEfor the heatwear your pyjamas or bring a boom box.decorate your

Mass 30 Mass order chaos

So, there might even be 3000 wheels or even 2006 people on bikes/skates/skoots/trikes/unicycles...It will be tons of people no matter what. Normally at Critical Mass announcements are given to start off the ride and this is good for new riders to understand the general idea and feel welcomed. Critical Mass is leaderless and each month the ride is reborn again to be something new. But, it's good

An Inconvenient Truth Bittorrent Frustration

Since Yesterday, even better: a small, watchable version of this movie!Inconvenient.Truth.2006.CAM.DivX-eee.si.torrentThanks to "eee" in Slovenia [.si] who re-encoded and compressed the movie, you rock! From 2.4G down to 537mb. A quick download! This is the same thing as the previous torrent but much smaller. It is put into a .rar but thankfully this has no password and IS legit. The txtfile of

2000+5 Wheels Ride video online

Home Grown and Out of town Videos for your inspiration!----I've put a low res version of the short video of last year's CM online at:youneverbikealone.com/criticalmass/vancouver/2005/juneBobSecret: Free movie at VIFC Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour. Not a Public Screening. Doors 2pm, show 3pm. Friday before Mass. Preview the nearly finished history of Vancouver Critical Mass and Bike Culture film

3000 Wheels Ride on 30th

This is Cheryl's great colour poster! Print it out. Currently it is a high res jpg file suitable to print two, side by side on a large 11x17 poster.Bev's poster new for 2006 Classic!cmas_2006wheel_color.pdf standard letter sheetcmas_2006wheel_b+w.pdf black and white versioncmas_2006wheel_4up.pdf quarter sheetFriday, June 30th is fast approaching. We've still got lots of inviting to do if we want

Sacred Steed

Blessing of the BicyclesThe Annual Blessing is sponsored by the Environmental Unit of the localdiocese of the Anglican Church of Canada to acknowledge sustainablehuman-propelled transportation. Join your brother and sister cyclists andreceive a blessing for your bicycle - and for you. Come, bells ringing, tocelebrate creation and claim your place in using the resources of our worldwisely and well

Thursday evening

Pedal Potluck Picnic - Thursday June 29th, 20066:30 pm at the Science World GazeboBring food and drink to share!The Pedal Potluck Picnic is a weekly series of bicycle rideshosted by the Urban Adventure League that happen inPortland, Ore. But here's an extra-special one for Vancouver!If you want to participate, just show up Thursday June 29that 6:30pm at the Gazebo near Science World on the

car free drive/chopper fest photos rolling in

hey we are some hella smooth cats, did that seem easy peasy or what?potholes of doom, anarchobikathalon, tallbikes virgins down & back up, bareknees, no casualties & we made it look so simple because it was!let the images begin:flickr.com/...goddess_spiral/171002441/and more from unicycle fixie red peteflickr.com/...doviende/~ifny

June is bike month!

June 2nd, Friday night, around 6pmis a planning meeting for any interested in promoting/organising forthe JUNE 2000+6 Wheels Massive![where we hope to gather 2000 cyclists, skaters, bladers, runners, bouncers, funsters...]Sadly, nobody remembered to announce that at last night's CM announcement time [that's what happens when no one is in charge]. But every CMasser [you] is definately invited.

disappear the cars

o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=oWalk for Peace, Justice and SustainabilitySaturday, June 24Riot! Flip Hummers! Youth in France burn 1000s of cars! People who are notyet Zombies gathering at 12 Noon at two starting places: Seaforth PeaceFlame Park (south end of the Burrard Bridge), or Waterfront SkytrainStation in front of Canada Place. The walk starts at 1:00 p.m. with a

PedalPride Queer

queers on bikes:: rainbow riders :::come to the east van pride event at grandview park tomorrow saturday [24th june]roger lee will sing his song "bicycle highway"lift your bikes in the air in the global atmospherefor the song for the singersongwriter"a lesbian trapped in a gay man's body"i ll be in the chorus~lee

June 18 Car Free Bike Day!

We need 300 volunteers to keep those cars at bay on Sunday June 18, so the good people of the Republic of East Van (and their guests) can PARTY IN THE STREET. We're almost there, but we still need a few good people.(and if you've already signed on, of course, please ignore this nagging)If you can spare 2 hours to marshall a barricade, you will receive bigtime karma points, a gorgeous t-shirt at

Bike Shorts: International Cycling Cinema

(aka Bike Movie night)Hi Friends and Relatives of Bicycle Films Everywhere,The glad news is that Bike Movie Night is ready to roll. Check thewebsite for film listings www.bikeshorts.blogspot.comThe deets are: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at Pacific Cinematheque (1131Howe Street -- between Davie and Helmcken). Doors at 7pm. Show at7:30. $10 gets you in.Hope to see you all there.Tannis

MC3 performance ride

Last night, the MC3 had their great preformance ride featuring the B:C:Clits, Trike, the fossilosopher and the all new boy dance bike team 'Brakes!'ChrisB made pictures. Also Pete took some good ones. [and of the EMB]...And Donald took some too.It was loads of fun. David Grove made noise at the start of the ride and I had a radio transmitter. I recorded a few moments as we listened to the

Naked Bike Ride, Sat, 1pm

Saturday, June 10From: wiki.worldnakedbikeride.orgLet the naked cyclists ride!!!On June 10th, 2006, cities around the world will experience the naked joyof the worlds largest naked protest against oil dependency and car culturein the history of humanity. It is time to stop indecent exposure toautomobile emissions and to celebrate the power and individuality of ourbodies! Naked Bicycle People

Fwd: [Velolove] winnipeg

Stephanie Fulford of Winnipeg was in the critical mass that the policeharrassed last month.She asked me to pass on her invitation to vancouver bike people to attendthe mass there on june 30 or otherwise show support and solidarity.An account of the events:http://www.dwdtv.org/humanrights.htmlcorporate media account:http://www.winnipegsun.com/News/Winnipeg/2006/05/28/1601648-sun.htmlhttp://

bike month sunday j11

Bike Wash!Sunday, June 11Come and get your bike washed at the Science World Gazebo between11:00am-2:00pm on Sunday, June 11. A fundraiser for the Big Fix 2006 Ride.The ride from Davis, California to Boston that's a fundraiser forhistiocytosis research.Info: jramp@@$@interchange...ubc.ca or 604-->>>255...7201or fixhistio.orgo=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=o-o=oMomentum Magazine's

festevil tuesday june 6

calling all noizicians & bikers & devil-may-caretakers...quiet giantswelcome...the site is up:vanfestevil.blogspot.comFestEVIL, Open Transnational Improvised Noize FestVancouver Public Library & everywhere elseJune 6/2006, 6:06:06 pmif you are interested in helping, participating, or just givingidears dears, email me. (if anyone has suggestions for power sourcesi'd appreciate it. not necessary

Review and Photos of May Ride

Great summary of the last ride and a couple pix:anarchocyclist.ca/.../vancouver-critical-mass/

Lantern Ride

I hope you can come to my annual bike party. Its kind of a guidedmeditation on wheels.The Bike Month Musical Lantern Ride with the Fossilosopher and Friends isa slow nighttime bicycle ride on Vancouver seawalls and Stanley parktrails. Most riders have electric light sculptures on their bikes and somehave other decorations or costumes. The ride stops several times for songperformances and

--Tuesday May 30th party reminder --

Here is the final linup for the May 30th party to celebrate the launch of'Workers Of The World Relax'. This book has a lot to do with what a bicyclefriendly world will look like.Oh yes, please come dressed in your work costumes.This is going to be a fun event with lots of dancing, theatre, body art,music and even more dancing.Doors open 7pm. Heritage Hall 3102 Main Street. List of

7:30pm Friday June 2nd

Green Screens presents: Taken For a Ride and Easy Rollin' Description: Video In Studios, 1965 Main St.Join Hadas Levy of ParaDocs Productions, Conrad Schmidt of the Workless Party, and some special guests, to see and hear about the American experience with freeways and some great Vancouver-bred alternatives. Films followed by discussion, music and dancing.Snacks and drinks available--bring

Pirates Mass May26

Print and Propagate! Feel free to modify,YOU are the Critical Mass organiser:^^^Click on this image to link with large 200dpiPDF format poster image [for you to print]Event Details:Critical Mass RollFriday, May 26th, 5:30 pm,Meet at the Vancouver Art Gallery,Downtown Vancouver (on the side with the lions)You are invited to join hundreds of fellow cyclists for a leisurely ride through the

ride of silence - wed may 17 2006 - 7pm

ride of silence - wed may 17 2006 - 7pmwww.rideofsilence.orgroute suggestions welcome.how about a full-on funerary procession? widow veils. bike trailer caskets.black banners & flags.my main concern here is emphasizing that biking is not dangerous in & ofitself, it's the reckless obliviatoid fukwads. e.g. statistically speaking,walking near traffic is more dangerous than riding a bike. so this

Plan June Mass Mass

Check out this beeautiful flyer by redsara:So apparently there is a gathering to begin to plan for the June 2006 Massive Critical Mass. In case you didn't know, June is Bike Month. So, in June, we make an extra special effort have a really big Critical Mass Ride. This started a few years ago with the 1000 wheels Ride which was meant to have 500 riders but broke that goal with about 800. We didn't

May 20 Ride along with Expedition Plant Earth

Julie recently biked across Europe and rowed across the Atlantic Oceanas part of Expedition Planet Earth. She and her fiance Colin will befinishing up the self-propelled, round the world expedition on May20th. They are inviting anyone and everyone to ride along with themfor the last 10 km, from UBC to Vanier Park to show support for theirmission of encouraging people to use non-motorized

Car-Free Commercial Drive Festival volunteers desired!

Come play in the street – East Van style. The Car-Free Commercial Drive Festival by the people of The Drive, for the people of The Drive and our guests. The Festival gave us a day to celebrate the  unique multi-dimensional spirit of our community, and to experience our space reclaimed from cars and given back to people. The Commercial Drive Festival was successful way beyond our imaginings.

April 28th Critical Mass

April 28th FridayThe Last Friday of this MonthCritical Mass Roll them Rocks5:30pm Gather 6pm Ride TogetherBicycle, Skate, Stroll, Push, Pull, PlayLeave from Vancouver Art Gallery, destination?Costumes, Commuter, Public Space CelebrationProtestation vs. Highway Expansion Bluff Blowing up?NO, there is alternatives:"Cars are NOT the Future!"--my engineering friend--------------------------------Ride

harper=hitler;your national emergency

canada is going police state before your eyes in that patented sneakycanadian style.NOW is the time to get OFF your 24/7 party and get ittogether.the canadian middle class needs an effective wake-up call fronCANADIAN progressives,they won't listen to americans on this particular issue.things can,and probably will,slide very quickly.you are MUCH LESS PREPAREDthan you'all may believe! talk to first

PEDALA!!

Invito per Ciemmona06Questo è un progetto strampalato direbbe qualcuno... Questa è pura utopia organizzata, una visione di insieme per niente scontata. Il luogo è sempre Roma, i ciclisti sono mondiali.La Critical mass interplanetaria vuole vuole reinventare un nuovo modo di organizzarsi e di stare nel mezzo senza per questo divenire oggetto di qualche campagnia postelettorale..un'idea sulla

plan World Naked Bike Ride

Everybody invited to this meeting.-----------------------------------Planning meeting for the World Naked Bike Ride:Tuesday 8pm. Soma coffee shop. Corner of Main and Broadway.We expect over a 100 cities to participate in this years World Naked Bike Ride. Please help make this event bigger than ever before in Vancouver by coming to a meeting this Tuesday.For more info on the event please visit

spring flower power CM

FLOWER POWER CRITICAL MASS SPRING HAS SPRUNG Friday March 31stmeet 5:30 leave 6pmfrom Vancouver Art GalleryGeorgia and Howe StDowntown Vancouver by the Lions the theme this month is spring flowers: bring and share5 bright flowers spring forth7 streets full of biking skating5 we roll

+++Rock solid weekend agenda+++

Hi All,Here's the latest agenda. The only changes were the addition of out-of-town arrivals and the Sunday brunch (It's now at Pol's)+++++Friday PM til 7am Saturday: Seamrippers dance party436 w. PenderOpportunities for Community Input onPre-Design Concepts for the Port Mann / Highway 1 Disaster PlanSaturday, March 25 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Hastings Community Centre, Auditorium,3096 East Hastings

Sat.25.March afternoon+party

Oo--------------------------afternoon----------------------------oOclick on image below to go to MC3 website withdetails of spectacular sat. evening party[and flyer you can print and share.]Oo------------------------evening-----------------------oOa polo like game, involving afganistan traditional bicycles, with a vegan meat CARcass?"this saturday we're playing bike polo with a dead SUV effigy

ride for peace

Saturday, March 18:Join with thousands in Vancouver,millions around the world,say 'War NO More',mark the third anniversaryof the USA invasion of Iraq.Gather at 11:30a.m. at Peace Flame Park[south end of Burrard Street Bridge]'Rally' at 1:00p.m. at Vancouver Art Gallery[Georgia and Howe]with music, speakers and special guests, yada yada yadaMaybe the bicyclists and others will decentralise the

cyclists are needed to move a car

Would you like to tow a car with your bicycle?We will ride with 20 or so others, so the load will be light for the individual. The car will have no engine but be growing plants; it's converted into a garden!This should be ironic and fun. It will be legal too!The Garden Car (AKA Car Park ) is an award-winning project designed and built by the 'Vancouver Design Nerds' and was first featured at Car

Fwd: Midnight ride this thursday

Well its already the second week of march (how the hell did that happen?), so its time again for midnight bike ridin'. As always, meet at grandview park at 11:45, ride at midnight. Its been beautiful out the last two rides, so (with some luck and wood knocking) maybe we'll win again. Even better, its getting warmer every day. All the better to dream about the comming summer (as if its not already

[Mcthree] more on bike war

This just in from Ratchet :E A S T V A N B I K E W A R SHowdy, So The bike War is going to be next Saturday, March 4th. The idea is to build up a sturdy bike that you don't have any emotional attachment to and in a ring you run into your opponents as hard as you can trying to destroy there bike. The last person with a bike that is still ridable wins. Minor

global warming critical mass

bicycle and skateglobal climate change street partycelebrate the beginning of winterand the end of springthis friday february 24thmeet 5pm, leave 6pmNE side of Vancouver Art Gallerywith the Lions, on Georgia ST.Rain, shine, snow or winddress in outdoor gear from your favourite seasonfree.it's fun too, bring soundboxes and musical instruments if you can all are invited. This is an inclusive event.

Fwd: midnight ride this thursday

Hey kids, just the tuesday reminder - midnight bike ride this thursday. Y'all know the drill - meet up at grandview park at 11:45, ride at midnight. Cameras, lights, boozy drinks (hot or cold), cycle lovin' friends, are all encouraged, as are suggestions as to where we ride andwhere we finish. See you thursday!-simonphotos and stuff, as always:beyondrobson.../midnight_mass_anyoneflickr.../

Recall David Emerson

A letter written to The Province---Dear Sirs,I find the editorial supporting David Emerson's defection to the Conservative Party offensive. This is not something that "makes sense for BC" or is just a case of crying in your beer. David Emerson has flagrantly disregarded the system of democracy in this country and should not be in Parliament! He should be recalled, even if there is no existing

Sunday Feb. 5th Spartacus Books Grand (re)Opening!where: at the new space: 319 W. Hastings, upstairs (right next door to the old space)time: 1pm-7pm in gratitude to all friends and supporters, from the spartacus books collective!

Dogs Mass Critical January New Year

most of the important thingsin the world have beenaccomplishedby peoplewho have kept ontrying when there seemedto be no help at allThis FridayJanuary 27thCritical MassBike Ride SkateRoll Push PedalStreet FestivalIn The Rain she who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of lifeMeet At TheVancouver ArtGallery OutsideBy The

midnight mass tommorrow

Its that time again kids! Midnight bike ride tomorrow (thurs, Jan. 12)Grab your beers, hot toddies, lights and other survival essentials and meet at Grandview Park (commercial drive @ charles st.) at 11:45, ride at midnight!See you there!photos available @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/midnightmass---And, MC3 ride Friday 6:30pm at the Science world Gazebo