Just a classic two-wheeled encounter with nature “I see her every now and then. I’m sure it’s a “her” because she’s vicious, like a mother protecting her young. The first time I saw her, she was 20 feet away from me. On her hind legs, shreiking (or whatever the hell they do) at me while I sped past on my bicycle.” If you ride a bike you’re going to meet critters. On a bike you cover more ground than you would walking. And the speed hits the sweet-spot of fast enough to sneak up on stuff yet slow enough to actually see it.
 

Its August, and while most of us are getting beaten down by the heat, the thought of riding a crit in wet 48 degree weather probably doesn’t sound that much better. Of course it makes for the perfect set up to hit the race hard as a lot of you competition has mentally lost before they even started.

 Which ever account is true (and I’m sure its probably somewhere in the middle), its never when activism behavior turning animalistic. Critical Mass will always stir controversey as traffic laws are rewritten for the course of the ride. But its important to remember that rides that don’t make the news are much more common than the near worst case scenarios from the link above.

 

And finaly, some things don’t need context they just need someone to do them, borrowed from Gonads N Strife.