Free Bike Valet at Fireworks

BEST and the City of Vancouver have teamed up this year to offer free and secure Bike Valet services at the Cigarette Banking Fireworks (the HSBC Celebration of Light). It's a convenient and safe way for cyclists to enjoy the fireworks without risking bike theft or having to fight with the crowds for space for bikes and gear.This year's fireworks are also a trial for whether the City will

Strange CM Province Rag

Mark, just read your article on Critical Mass, sure sounds like you have a big hate on for cyclists, or just the drug using, violent fringe, lunatics, you spoke of. I have been going to critical mass rides for 15 years and your observations are bs. Fist fights? Deliberate scratching of cars? Drug use? Riding naked? Give me a break, if these are your insightful views maybe you should pop on

NY Rookie cop in hot water after video shows him slamming biker

A rookie NYPD cop was stripped of his badge and gun Monday after a stunning video caught him slamming a bicyclist to the ground in an apparent unprovoked attack. Officer Patrick Pogan, 22, of the Midtown South Precinct, was bounced to desk duty soon after the video of Friday's incident in Times Square appeared on YouTube. "The video is bad - what can you say?" a police source said. The damning

Girl head on a plate illusion

Is the Girl head really on a plate? or it's just an illusion.

Important - Please vote for UBC Farm! Deadline Today!

Hey friends, sorry to spam you with this, but I wanted to send this announcement out far and wide - please please please click on the link below and vote for the UBC Farm! It will only take you a few seconds. We are at 927 votes and are hoping to reach 1000 by the deadline tomorrow. Some of you may know that the future of the farm is in serious danger, and we hope that by getting 1000 votes in

big gay bike ride!

It's July again. The lazy days of summer and great weather!That means, as per tradition, the Pride ride for everyone! Because biking makes you gay! (joyous) And Critical Mass is about embracing and protecting diversity (that is why we cork the cars - making it safe for the wild pedestrian use of the street). One out of the 12 monthly rides being dedicated to celebrating different sexualities is

sit or sleep in road or sidewalk

hip bike hop

'cept for the motorbikes at the very end I like it.Pedal down the foot hillsWheelies on the frontP-p-pedal down the foot hillsWheelies on the front

Critical Mass, CKNW, guilty! Guilty!

By Kevin Potvin When cars are involved, the arguments take on other-worldly tones. The three biggest, most profound issues of our time, climate change, oil prices, and resource wars, strangely all involve in intimate ways the private car. And so it is that that relatively unassuming and hitherto background prop, the car, has emerged as the one object that lies at the very

The Car of the Future

The future of the car is the past. It's over. All this nonsense is desperation. Cars are a trap - environmentally and socially.In the future there will still be people marketing garbage you don't need that will only do what you don't want... But it won't be cars anymore.What are cars for anyway? We need transportation - not public masturbation. Cars don't move people around, they move steel, oil,

Spiral Optical Illusion

Here is another spiral illusion - this time in Snail-o-vision! Interesting fact about this optical illusion, is that when people encounter it for the first time, based on their previous experience with illusions, they presume it has something to do with perpetual motion. At least that is what I presumed. I thought the only illusion happening here is “seemingly moving” spiral painted on our little snail’s shell, and not the best example of that type at all! If that was it, I wouldn’t be much excited, and would probably forward this photo directly to my recycle bin. But then I read the email that was companion to this submission. It said something like: “Is the snail shell really a spiral”? I looked at the shell more closely, The spiral is actually composed of many concentric circles. Very good!

streetfilm of vancouver carfree day

A really nice video summarising it - especially for those of us who missed it because we were out of town! Streetfilms is a really neat bike propaganda enterprise. They were down in Portland at Towards Carfree Cities but I didn't get to see their presentation because it was such a busy conference and I had to babysit too! Apparently they grew out of the old NY BikeTV thing which was a sort of

3d cube colour illusion

As you focus our eyes the cubes will focus together and actually look 3d. You will see some of the cubes will pop out more then others.

Big City Illusion

In this picture there are two pictures of a city by night, put in an animation. It looks like it's 3D

Coal Eco-Carz of the Future!

Yesterday I took a Bike Ride with 2011 friends

brianonthemove.vox.comThank You Corkers! Vancouver Critical Mass, June 2008...blog post by Chris Carlsson, one of the original instigators of SF Critical Masslipmagazine.org/ccarlssonA Call to Bikes...Also check out the flickr/vancriticalmass