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Buenos Aires Critical Mass !!

I was walking in Buenos Aires today and I stumbled upon the monthly Buenos Aires Critical mass event (Massa Critical Buenos Aires) - where many bicyclists gather together as a critical mass and cycle the city as a group. I used to that every month in San Francisco. I so wish I had a bicycle here to be able to join the Critical Mass. It would have been a perfect way to see the city.

     

 

Critical Mass San Francisco - August 2009

Every last Friday of the month, there's a critical mass event in San Francisco. Many cyclists gather by and we just mass cycle throughout the city.  Lots of fun and good exercise (but many angry motorists) at the blocked traffic and all.

     

San Francisco Critical Mass Bike Ride - July 2008

Every last Friday of the month, there is the Critical Mass Bike Ride in San Francisco - (http://critical-mass.info/ - the defintion of Critical mass as per the website is "Critical Mass is a monthly bicycle ride to celebrate cycling and to assert cyclists' right to the road.")

I did last month and really enjoyed it and wanted to do it again this month. We all met at the Justin Herman Plaza in the embarcadero and left from there. I think there should have been some 200 - 300 cyclists gathered for the event. I rode with them for a couple of hours and then had to split, as I had to go somewhere. We did sme 16 miles or so in these 2 hours.

I tracked the course with my garmin. Check out the route we took and other stats from my watch at this link

http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/player/6370883

It has the map and it you click on play, it'll replay the ride.

         

Critical Mass Bike Ride - 17.8 miles in 2 1/2 hours

Last week, I did the critical mass bike ride (http://critical-mass.info/) for the first time. It is a mass bike ride where many cyclists just get together and take over the streets. They do it every last Friday of the month in San Francisco. It starts about 6p.m and goes on for however many miles you can ride :) There were about maybe some 200 cyclists or so that gathered at the Ferry Plaza on the Embarcadero and it was fun ride. I tracked the course with my garmin watch. Check out the route we took.

Press the play to re-run the entire route.

http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/player/6100924

more dashboard info : http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/6100924

The hardest part of the entire ride, was when I had to ride back home on my own. The adrenaline rush from the group setting was finished and my legs were like jello, but I still managed to get drag the bike back home. I plan to do it every month now.