Friday, May 26, 2006

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

Sunday, May 21, 2006

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

Friday, May 12, 2006

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

Monday, May 8, 2006

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

Sunday, May 7, 2006

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

Thursday, May 4, 2006

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.