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Your Week Begins: Sun-Tue Schedule

September 23rd, 2012 by Russel

Welcome to the Critical Mass 20th Anniversary Week. Hope you can make some or all of these great activities!

Welcome Center
Opens: Monday, Sept. 24 at 1pm
Closes: Friday Sept. 28 at 5pm
Hours: 1pm-5pm every day
Location: 518 Valencia St. at 16th St. (Map)
Public Transportation: BART: 16th St. Mission :: MUNI: 14, 22, 33, 49 (also J, 12, and 27)

Here are some of the upcoming events early in the week:

Sunday, Sept. 23
2 pm
Art/Freak Bike Ride. Normal bikes welcome. Waterfront to the Mission. Slow pace. Meet at Hi-Dive, Pier 28, 1:30PM. Ride leaves at 2PM 3-4 hours. Post ride BBQ to follow.

Monday, Sept. 24 
6pm
Welcome Center Opening Night with Art Exhibition Opening, 518 Valencia (at 16th), FREE

Tuesday, Sept. 25 
7pm
Critical Mass @ 20 Screening at ATA, 992 Valencia (nr. 21st), $6

DAILY BIKE RIDES (M-W)

Mon., Sept. 24
11am: San Francisco to San Mateo and back again… join an expert trail rider who will take you on a scenic tour down the bayshore and through some hills (depending on riders’ preferences), finding the nooks and crannies south of San Francisco that even most locals don’t know about! Meet at Welcome Center, 518 Valencia… bring lunch and water!

Tues., Sept. 25
1:30-3:30pm: Chris Carlsson leads a 2-hour “Transit History” tour: Discover lost freeways, ghosts of train routes, and a vivid account of how San Franciscans moved around this peninsula through time. Hear about the violent strikes that shaped public transit, the graft and corruption that conquered the Outside Lands. It’s a social, historical and critical tour through the city’s transportation past and present. Meet at Hayes and Octavia (“Patricia’s Green”), we will leave promptly!

Wed., Sept. 26
12 noon: Susanne Zago (fluent in English and Italian) will lead a ride along theeast shore of the SF Bay, from West Oakland BART to the Rosie-the-Riveter monument in Richmond, California. It’s a fantastically scenic, beautiful bayshore ride, with easy return by BART. Meet at West Oakland BART at 11:45 a.m.

12 noon: NOIZ Ride: meet at the  McKinley statue across Baker street from the Dept. of Motor Vehicles on the Panhandle Park.  Bring eatables, drinkables, extra layers to wear,  and your ears.  There will be Three Bands!!! – we will ride around town exploring and stopping very often for some tunes and merriment.  Ride will last several hours and will not be strenuous with probably no hills.  We will probably intersect with the book opening.

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Milan Night and Day!

September 9th, 2012 by ccarlsson

Hi SFO, here Milano. We are proud to tell you that we are never tired….and after the synchronical critical mass with the one in San Francisco (that as said before will be a group of about 30 to 50 people and will not gather families) we will meet in a huge critical mass (hundreds???? we hope) for everybody, Saturday afternoon at 15:00 from piazza Graziano Predielis (ex piazza Mercanti).

We will be a river and we will be able to stop the traffic, as we did for the critical mass protest for Cop9, Cop 15, the summer swimsuit critical mass, the guerrilla gardennig critical mass, every winter for San Lazzaro…

Even the usual Thursday evening mass will celebrate the 20 years! So we will have three day of celebrations….we really never have enough!

This is just to let you know that in case someone of you wants to try exotical experiences, or need to fly away from San Francisco for puzzling reasons, he will find a home here in Milano…..

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Sep 28: The Sun Will Really Never Set (Milan, IT)

September 7th, 2012 by Russel

Hallo everybody,

Here in Milan we are planning to have a special ride just while you’ll be running your Interstellar ride on Fri September 28th.

This means we will gather at about 2 AM local time (Sat September 29th) and will ride up to about 5 AM in the morning. Then we’ll have breakfast together at dawn right before going to sleep: the sun will really never set that night.

We plan to be a group of about 30 to 50 people, while our ordinary rides gather up to 500 people every Thursday (that’s right: Critical Mass rides in Milan take place weekly).

Maybe some friends of us will be in San Francisco and we’ll try to call them on the phone just before moving from our meeting point at 2:30 AM.

This is just to let you know you won’t be alone: some friends will be pushing their pedals on the other side of the world :-)))))

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Read all about it! Shift Happens: Critical Mass at 20 (excerpts)

September 7th, 2012 by LisaRuth

The 20th Anniversary Critical Mass Ride is 3 weeks away!  And that’s not all — the much-awaited 20th Anniversary book, Shift Happens!: Critical Mass at 20, will be in our hands in a couple weeks! As we count down to 28 September, we want to highlight some of the book’s contributions from the various cities worldwide where the conversation is HOT about Critical Mass.  As the editors, we wanted to know what has changed over the past 20 years, how Critical Mass has altered the landscape for bicycling, bicyclists, bike culture and the urban physical landscape. So, our book has contributions from 31 cities, and we’re gonna try to feature all of them in daily posts excerpting the essays here.

Today we focus on where it all started, here in San Francisco.  Contributors Hugh D’Andrade, Adriana Camarena, Lusi Morhayim, Mario Bruzzone, and Jason Meggs reflect on (respectively) personal transformation, our own limited perceptions of the ride, the move from counter publics to counterspaces, gendered performance within the CM culture, and the benefits and wrong turns of Critical Mass in SF. This selection of SF writers is a good indication of the diversity of style, angle, and topic of the essays in the book. Here is a taste of what you’ll read… (more…)

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