What is the point of London Critical Mass?

anyone who says that womens or mens naked bodies are ugly is telling you more about themselves than they probably realise.

Women are better put together, you can have a handsome chopper but I think the scrotum on a summers day, rubbed on an un-broken saddle.. is as ugly as it sounds.

Mike - I do fancy it but i want to have a quick pint at Bootsy Red Monsters birthday do in Fulham. does the Critical Mass go out as far as kings road?

your a bit late on that one.. i did make page 2 on both free papers for the naked bike ride ;)

best come-back ever!

Good call, let's take CM out to BRM's birthday. That would be funny as fuck.

All you have to do is ride at the front.

whats Bootsy Red Monsters birthday?

yeah the fulham thingy!

whats Bootsy Red Monsters birthday?

Fulham Tup, Harwood Terrace, parallel to New Kings Road. 6pm >. Bikes in rear garden.

Critical Mass gives us City lawyers the chance to pretend that we are young anarchists.

Jolly good fun it is too.

sorry? just because i am on a bike, does not mean that i don't want to be part of clogging and making traffic at least once a month. Evens steven now, now. And i can have a beer with a police escort.

I don't particularly like the overloading of the event with all of the political stuff, but I like just going out on a ride with a lot of people, with no real purpose, and no real destination, and just enjoy the atmosphere.

Oh, and I think we (cyclists) act like jackasses when we do that thing where we go around a roundabout 3 or 4 times and severely block critical junctions. Our mass is a good enough reminder, I don't think we need to act like arseholes to show people we exist.
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init blud.

The point of tonight's ride appears to have been to pose on some very pretty fixies and ss bikes. I even had four different people plus a policewoman ask about my bike.

Mind you my bike is very pretty and I do enjoy posing upon it.

The point of tonight's ride appears to have been to pose on some very pretty fixies and ss bikes. I even had four different people plus a policewoman ask about my bike.

Mind you my bike is very pretty and I do enjoy posing upon it.

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Is it only for tiny people then?

If only. I am a very large fat bastard and its supple steel alloy frame accommodates me very comfortably.

The point of yesterdays CM was actually to watch Shinscar nearly getting arrested (The Van was called) becuase he couldn't provide ID to the coppers who stopped him for jumping a red light and going on the wrong side of a bollard.

• CNC’d reverse track drop-outs - formed at the Serotta factory from a single billet of material. These are the prettiest, most precisely engineered and beautiful drop-outs in the world. Sometimes people stare at them all day!

hmmmm nice marketing blurb

I find it difficult to believe that anyone could spend a day staring at a drop out - billet or not. But then, my bike is 70% rust. Actually, people stare at my bike quite a lot. Normally while shaking their heads and tutting.

Of course the irony of my post is that this is just my view, and possibly the best thing about the ride is that you don['t have to agree with it, you ride for your own reasons.

Oi you! I came on here to escape from my dissertation, not to be reminded of it.

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it looks like a genesis or ridgeback what with the smiler decals.

I find it difficult to believe that anyone could spend a day staring at a drop out - billet or not. But then, my bike is 70% rust. Actually, people stare at my bike quite a lot. Normally while shaking their heads and tutting.

I watched a couple of people staring at your bike yesterday when someone rode it down to the cafe. It made me smile.

I still think it has some validity in simply reminding pedestrians and road users that cyclists exist, are out there, and are soft targets that hurt easily.

We forget too easily how quick someone in a vehicle can become blind to cyclists. Reminding them monthly is a good thing I think.

I don't particularly like the overloading of the event with all of the political stuff, but I like just going out on a ride with a lot of people, with no real purpose, and no real destination, and just enjoy the atmosphere.

Oh, and I think we (cyclists) act like jackasses when we do that thing where we go around a roundabout 3 or 4 times and severely block critical junctions. Our mass is a good enough reminder, I don't think we need to act like arseholes to show people we exist.

Of course the irony of my post is that this is just my view, and possibly the best thing about the ride is that you don['t have to agree with it, you ride for your own reasons.

+1!