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/