Critical Mass is a bicycling event typically held on the last Friday of every month in over 300 cities around the world (including Orlando!) While the ride was originally founded in 1992 in San Francisco with the idea of drawing attention to how unfriendly the city was to cyclists, the leaderless structure of Critical Mass makes it impossible to assign it any one specific goal. In fact, the purpose of Critical Mass is not formalized beyond the direct action of meeting at a set location and time and traveling as a group through city or town streets on bikes.
I caught the Orlando group by chance on the last Friday of June after they'd completed a 6 mile ride. In the parking lot of Stardust, they did tricks, played games and made everyone watching with they had a bike. Or maybe it was just me?
I caught the Orlando group by chance on the last Friday of June after they'd completed a 6 mile ride. In the parking lot of Stardust, they did tricks, played games and made everyone watching with they had a bike. Or maybe it was just me?