Critical Mass - April '09

nice one, thanks

Just got back, me and Emmeff were there. Left early when we were near Liverpool street riding round that massive roundabout tunnel thing (though I did a couple of laps).

If the guy is on here. Thanks for Olly and his friend for pointing me in the right direction.

Set out late and missed the mass completely, but had a smashing ride round town on my own, a sort of "Minimal Mass" if you will. If you're the chap on the white geared steel De Rosa carrying the bag with bikes on it: very nice frame and enviable trackstanding (at least by spazzy ol' non-trackstanding me).

Oh, so this is no longer a general CM thread--are you planning to keep updating the thread title, Velocio?

I'll be there with a ginger guy who'll be on an awesome blue Mercian. I'll be on my slightly tattier silver fixed gear with a postman bag on my back, say hello...

Do you have sort of long-ish hair ?

Well that was my first CM.... interesting... can I be brutally honest ???

I was wearing a white campag cap and a postman bag and I suppose my hair is long ish... What were you riding/wearing?

It was a bit shit this time, the one I went to earlier in the year was quite a bit quicker and the traffic actually got blocked, people didn't just rely on the mass... Oh well...

can I be brutally honest ???

no

I was wearing a white campag cap and a postman bag and I suppose my hair is long ish... What were you riding/wearing?

It was a bit shit this time, the one I went to earlier in the year was quite a bit quicker and the traffic actually got blocked, people didn't just rely on the mass... Oh well...

okay not sure if you are the guy im thinking of or not....... he had bob length hair... v cute ! :)

I was on a green specialized tricross, small, with windmill flower on the back.... had a white top and karkai shorts and spds.... might have noticed me getting hit by a silver astra, then me punching his bonnet, and then him getting out to me screaming.... luckily my so called crappy wheels seemed to have held up and my back wheel doesnt look like its off atall.... :)

anyway, apart from getting hit, witnessing two other wheels buckled by taxis, being squirted in the face by what I thought was water, but was probably sprite ( white van wankers ) after my hair was sticky.... getting a hideous migraine on the way home......

no

then there was... all the guys that were with me when i was hit, the girl who gave me her number as a witness, all the guys that were brilliant... Khor :)
A taxi driver who asked if I was ok, and meant it. Fixie dancing to ' up town top ranking ' :)

Little chap on the back of his young grandads bike... awwww ickle cutey !

All the guys we chatted too....... :))))

sorry, my first time.

seemed a bit moody last night, few things marked it out from other ones. Hardly any police there, partly due to the Sri Lanka protest in Parliament square -- which could have led to the amount of incidents going on all over the shop, and mass riders doing all the blocking, drivers are less likely to chance it when plod is blocking them.
Always makes me smile when there are police there, police on bikes, policing a bike ride....something ironic about that, feel sorry for them on their regulation treks anyway-bit limp compared to most bikes there..

I got my rear wheel dinged by a taxi, and he called me a twat too, which was nice.

Good mass this month, partly because of the amount of alcohol i consumed.

I was on the gold Alan staggering about outside the foundry

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I got my rear wheel dinged by a taxi, and he called me a twat too, which was nice.

Good mass this month, partly because of the amount of alcohol i consumed.

I was on the gold Alan staggering about outside the foundry

Was that out the front of Gordon Brown's house?

Was that out the front of Gordon Brown's house?

nope, mine was earlier near Trafalgar square. Nowhere near as bad as the guy outside Mr Browns, his wheel was proper taco'd

at least there was a copper on hand to give the taxi driver what for

nope, mine was earlier near Trafalgar square. Nowhere near as bad as the guy outside Mr Browns, his wheel was proper taco'd

at least there was a copper on hand to give the taxi driver what for

I saw some guy flagging down a red copper car ...