I say we have two ppl walking on the crosswalk with an uncorcked oil can...

"accidentally on purpose" bump into each other and spill it!

DONE! CHOP CHOP!

We need to organize this thing to counter these assholes, time for a new thread?

Anyone have roman candles or some firework we can shoot at them?

This is outrageous! There are always cars lining up whenever the critical mass' going on. And they take FOREVER to finish passing one street!

^that is the best idea so far

All talks I bet none of you will actually go and anything about it.

Gregor Robertson, the chairman of the Vancouver Police Board, is a fucking hippy.

People are talking about it in a negative way, though. They're bringing up negative publicity. I was listening to the radio earlier today on my way home and 80% of the people voting on TEAM1040 thought they should be arrested. I don't know if he said it on the radio but I was talking on Twitter to Buzz Bishop and we agreed that they're a bunch of moronic fucks. The vast majority of the 604 is not behind their idiotic way of doing things.

People are not going to bike in this city. Shit is too far away and biking is inconvenient, especially if you have a family or a job that is any more than throwing distance from where you live.

Actually, anyone ever consider going along for the whole ride.. on a motorcycle? :D

LF: BEATER CAR WITH REPULSIVE EMISSION ODOR TO DRIVE IN FRONT OF THE CYCLISTS

or time to get rid of ur cat, and let them smell your stinky exhaust

fuck them



already saw a bunch of riding this morning


fucking hell

Jesus... Reading the quotes and comments in the articles related to Critical Mass makes me think all that fresh air the cyclists are breathing is damaging their brain... or it could be from breathing in all the exhaust fumes? Source of these quotes from: http://www.theprovince.com/news/vanc...181/story.html

YOU'RE NOT FUCKING RIDING TO WORK IN CRITICAL MASS!!! DON'T YOU FUCKING USE 'FEELING SAFE' AS AN EXCUSE TO JOIN CRITICAL MASS. YOU ARE A DOUCHEBAG AND YOU KNOW IT, SO DON'T MAKE IDIOT EXCUSES. IF YOU TRULY WANT TO BIKE SAFELY, GO TO THE FUCKING SEAWALL YOU DUMB BITCH.

BECAUSE THE ROADWAYS ARE FOR FUCKING CARS YOU GODDAMN IMBECILE!!! HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU MAKING ANY SENSE?!?!?! WOULD YOU LIKE IT IF EVERYBODY DROVE ON THE FUCKING BIKE LANES?!?! AND SECONDLY, HOW THE FUCK DOES PISSING EVERYBODY OFF PROMOTE LESS HATE TOWARDS CYCLISTS YOU FUCKING PRETENTIOUS HIPPIE MOUTH-BREATHER?!?!

FUCK VANCOUVER CITY COUNCIL, FUCK HIPPIES, FUCK GREGOR ROBERTSON, FUCK. YOU. ALL.

Good i like your anger ^






i know what i will be doing today, revving the fuck out of my car blowing past them and let them smell my rotten stinky exhaust fumes so they can choke themself and fell over to the road. Hitting their head against the sidewalk and crack it wide open than die motherfucker. :thumbsup: for not wearing helmet

QFT, the only ones who can bike to work are the douche hippies living in kits. us commoners are forced to drive...biking isnt an option.

Ok lets get this straight, cyclists aren't all fucking hippies. I commute by bike, it's a great way to get excersize and keep the car at home on these fucking awesome days!

While most of you are stuck in traffic, a biker is still peddling away. Driving in Vancouver doesn't save you all that much time unless you're hitting the highway. During high peak traffic times, I bet a good rider can make it from richmond to downtown at about the same time if not maybe 15minutes late.

I don't upright think having this once a month is such a great idea because once I coudln't even get downtown because of these guys, but don't hate on all bikers. You won't know unless you grab a bike and ride it in and out of downtown but most of the biking routes are kept off any major streets.

Vancouver isn't the most ideal place to ride because of all the hills, but if your work has showers and you hate sitting in traffic, pick up a bike and try riding to work. You'll find it a pretty rewarding experiance!

This is true and I agree that I am unfairly overgeneralizing; but it's mainly for effect and not something I really believe to be true. Hope it doesn't strike a nerve for anybody who does bike, but are smart enough to not be a sheep in this Critical Mass bullshit.

Hippy! :p

Theres a way to get a msg across about biking in Vancouver and the Critical Mass isn't one of those ways. You have to admit though, it's kind of cool take over the streets;D

:D

Take over streets, disobey law and build up traffic seem cool to you?
God.. I thought Gay parade was bothering... you cyclists are even worse. In theory, crtical mass supposed to be a protest, not because it is cool to break the law and take over the streets. It's the people like you screwd up our society.

Mananetwork has summed it up perfectly. Several people at my office bike to work and they don't exactly live within a throwing stone of the downtown core either. People in my office aren't exactly hippies - unless you think that people who consume Starbucks, are white, drink beer, wear brand name clothing, and have families are somehow hippies. :confused:

Every time a thread comes up about Critical Mass, we have a bunch of people who think that cycling is somehow part of the counter-culture, or akin to being a "hippie." Most of you throw around the term "hippie" without even knowing what it means. Most cyclists aren't hippies who live on the Drive, eat vegan, have their own gardens, etc. I suppose if being a 'hippie' means getting some exercise on the way to work/running errands and enjoying the outdoors, well I don't know what to say...

I think cyclists who disobey the rules of the road should be fined just like drivers. However, for every cyclist who disobeys the rules, there are 5 law-abiding cyclists who wear reflective gear, helmets, use hand signals, and stay in bike lanes. Just as cyclists should be taught the rules of the road, drivers should watch for cylists.

^you're not even talking about critical mass anymore. nobody here has a problem with cyclists, we have a problem with critical mass. every time they ride it ends up in violence and disrespect between drivers and riders... it really accomplishes nothing.

I know I'm taking this thread off-topic, but judging from the responses in this thread and other threads, we still have a long way to go before people become open about cycling. When I see people throw around the term hippie without substantiating it, it touches a raw nerve I guess.

I don't agree with the methods Critical Mass employs, but I can understand the message.

you know why we pissed off? Because most of them does not get FINED ! If they are insured and have plate on their bike maybe I wont be so pissed ? At least I can track him down with an enforcer if a cyclist breaks the rule of riding on road.
That is why cylists should not be on the streets with its own lanes in the first place. You gave them one, they will want more.

are you sure you understand the message Critial mass trying to deliver? They called it celebration now because finally they have their own lanes, great.. BUT Why the fuck are these people celerate once every month ?
You dont see 4/20 celebrate on the 20th of every months? You dont see celebration of light shooting firework once every month..
It was a protest before, now they have the lanes, they want 1 step further to do something stupid. Most of the people have mentality in their head that it is fun when you were told not to do something, in this situation "breaking the rules".. I bet majority of them not riding for the protest sake, they ride their bike because they can break the rule and make a scene of it. The good part is "THEY WONT BE FINED NOR THORWN IN JAIL"...... This is also the impression Mananetwork is giving me by stating taking the whole road seems cool !!!

Go back to China.
Like, srsly.

:Popcorn

I think CM's methods are wrong on a day like today - to do the whole every-month-last-friday-after-rush-hour thing is probably annoying but ... isn't that bad in the grand scheme of things. To deliberately, passive-aggressively block rush hour traffic on a long weekend Friday is just asking for confrontation and trouble.