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2012-05-29 till Sept Critical Mass ride Mexico to San Francisco
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To mark the 20th anniversary of Critical Mass a group of Tall Bikers are riding the 4000km from Mexico City to San Francisco it will be an amazing trip and if you would like to join them all or part of the way their facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/events/153497318012336/
Below is an e-mail I just got from my friend Andrea who is organising the ride.
Hi there Adam!
I am not sure about my memory...Could be Raffaele? I am surely doing some confusion man...try to ask Giuso to be sure.
I did not work as a messenger since November, as I quit my job. The boss gave us bananas and waffel instead of cheque restaurant...so I decided that it was enough and I went for some months to live in Paris. I am now out of Europe until October at least. I am in Mexico city in a bike kitchen and I actually work on my tallbike trip trough Mexico and California to go to the 20th birthday of CM in San Francisco.
The Tallbike is set up in the 1.0 version since yesterday and I tested today on a 25km ride for the first time. Quite nice, I also shoot into a pothole slowly to see if anything was going to brake...well I actually was going to fall but the fact is that the bike took its first shock without problems.
So I guess I'll not be in Rome neither in Grenoble...but I really hope you guys to have a lot of fun. The movement is going up this year as never before...have you seen the bike advocate demonstration in Rome with 50k people? Wow! That was amazing!
Here too, things start to move seriously: a daily ride is what the city gives minimum, but some days 3 different groups ride bikes in the city at night.
There are different sensibilities: fixed gear, people learning how to ride in the traffic, just people, women, wolves, vicious people...all of them then go to the "Paseo de Todos" once a month the last Thursday. Indeed the city is big but there are lots of people in the bike movement, I hope that the workshops go up fast and I did what I could to complete their set of tools. Still I will buy some other ones and I wrote to the Atelier des vélo in Paris to ask for their help. The kids of the neighbourhood come every now and then to get a bike to borrow, to repair their own or just to chat and slow down my work on the bike but it's somehow my work to help improve what they have got here while I am around.
There should be definitely a certain number of other bike kitchens in this monster city but well...it's amazing anyways!
Well I see you soon, or later in Europe!
Andrea