Comments on: Critical Mass 20th Anniversary today

By: Cycler/Driver/Walker

Cycler/Driver/Walker — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 11:33:22 +0000

Cyclists are really making a bad name for themselves in SF with their utter disrespect for the rules of the road. Motorists are licensed to drive. I think city cyclists should be as well. Hell, some pedestrians should be too. Everyday I brake for idiots in the road not paying attention. I drive, bike and walk a lot and it’s always defensively. There’s horrible drivers out there and I don’t just assume they see me. So why are there cyclists and pedestrians that do? Sadly when I hear of someone being hit I automatically assume it’s their own damn fault and I feel more sorry for the driver. I constantly see people on bike’s just jamming through red lights and stop signs completely disregarding the surrounding traffic. Critical mass now has a reputation for disrupting traffic. Most people would rather trade the comfort of their own car for a faster alternative but many have no choice. The stressed out single mom working a crap job downtown trying to get her kids from day care in time while Critical Mass jerk offs are deliberately blocking the way has my sympathy more. More power to bikes, just be smart and fair about it.

By: Alice

Alice — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 19:50:37 +0000

This was my first thought as well.

By: trapgina

trapgina — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:45:45 +0000

thats sexualized?

i fucking hate the bay area.

i was just looking at that goofy image and i was thinking to myself
how it represents some fucked up self aggrandizing san francisco liberal goddess and oh look, her racially ambiguous child is with her.

if thats sexualized then i would suggest looking at some porn.

By: GG

GG — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:24:12 +0000

Am I the only one who thinks it’s weird/misogynistic that that poster is centered around BOOBS and a sexualized woman with a “come hither” look? And not, like…. a bike? Or, god forbid, a strong, active, non-sexualized woman riding a bike? Eh, maybe I’m overreacting. I still think it’s weird.

By: Fyodor

Fyodor — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:31:08 +0000

Yeah, I love bicycling and am supportive of critical mass, but a lot of bicyclists these days seem to have a similar attitude towards pedestrians that they lament car drivers have for them. Having a moving vehicle zoom by right in front of you in a crosswalk is just as shitty when it’s a bicycle as car. And during critical mass this year I had a number of bicyclist honk (or dingle) at me because they were riding on the sidewalk.

Bicyclists (I guess over the age of 13) have absolutely no right to ride on the sidewalks, as even the SF Bicycle Coalition recognizes. http://www.sfbike.org/?sidewalks

By: wizzer

wizzer — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:36:59 +0000

CM riders are all dicks.

By: CKChew

CKChew — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 21:15:57 +0000

Critical Mass is whatever.. I live in harmony with cars and bicyclists b/c I’m usually on my scooter or walking. But I got caught right at a light right before CM rode by last night and it was irritating to know that just a SMIDGE faster and I would have been past it just fine.

Now, I’m not a tall girl, my legs are pretty short, and I’m usually holding my scoot up with my tippy toes. Trying to hold the scoot up in the freezing cold waiting for CM to pass by was not my favorite way to spend a Friday night.

Also some people were being dicks to pedestrians trying to cross the street. Pretty sure your revolt against our dependency on oil and the internal combustion engine wasn’t meant to do that.

By: SFkix

SFkix — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:08:57 +0000

There was a news reporter at Dolores Park last night talking about Critical Mass waiting for cyclist there. Was Dolores Park the end of the route?

By: P.D.Bird

P.D.Bird — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:51:22 +0000

“while I on the other hand (as someone who commutes 20 miles on my bicycle each day) usually already have to deal on a daily basis with tons of shitty, angry motorists who I would prefer to not further piss off lest they proceed to hate me so much that they try to hurt me while I’m riding.” as someone who rides a bike for EVERYTHING and and work from a bike over 80 miles a week, I would have to say that the real reason that we have ALOT of the problems that we have as cyclist comes more from everyday riders that don’t stop at signs/lights. Lets be honest with ourselves. Saying that an event that is EVERY last friday for the last 20 yrs is the reason is just weak. If you would stop and do a survey,im sure the 2 or 3 days around mass you will hear ur argument,but the rest of the month its the not stoping at signs/lights.

By: Travis

Travis — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 07:08:31 +0000

this guy’s got it figured out

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 01:18:46 +0000

Where are all the cops enforcing stop signs now that we really need them?!

By: GrupyGus

GrupyGus — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 00:02:11 +0000

You are a good person. I like your write up a lot.

By: Grego

Grego — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 23:49:16 +0000

Critical Mass is a joyful celebration of cycling and community, if that is your attitude toward it. Or an obnoxious misuse of rightful auto space, if that’s your attitude. Or a good way to earn lots of overtime pay while getting to ride your flashing, bleeping motorcycle down sidewalks scaring people, if that happens to be your situation. Many things to many people. It takes all kinds.

By: GrupyGus

GrupyGus — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 23:29:17 +0000

This whole deal is kinda obnoxious and I use my bike every day in SF.

By: Stu

Stu — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 21:17:49 +0000

Ahh so that is what “Burning Man Flavor” is there on that flyer.