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From The Guardian: Police attempts to outlaw the monthly Critical Mass cycle ride through the streets of London unless its route was notified in advance were blocked by the law lords today. The House of Lords allowed a challenge by cyclist Des Kay to a court of appeal ruling that the Metropolitan police...

You can find more photos from Albany’s Critical Masquerade here and

More Halloween cycling madness! Here are photos from the Critical Masquerade in Rochester.

Perry Woodin, unicyclist extraordinaire, sent along these photos of last night’s Critical Mass riders and their arrival at his house.

So last night I biked out to the Sanctuary For Independent Media to hear Chris Carlsson’s talk. I met up with Lorenz at the boat launch. We split at 6:10, and made it there at 6:51. Important things to remember for the future. The valet bike parking was awesome. Scott Kellogg’s brief talk...

From Bob at Liberty On Bikes!: ok, looks like we’ll be leaving the downtube @ madison around 6 then the next meet up will be 6-615 at the boat launch then we’ll be taking the trail over to troy. if we don’t meet up before, there will be a large group going back to albany - [...]

Bob from Liberty On Bikes! is organizing a ride to go see Critical Mass founder Chris Carlsson in Troy. Here are the details: There’s several people wanting to ride over to troy for the chris carlson event. Anyone interested in meeting at the downtube between 6-615 to ride over? There will be myself...

While I’m here, I’ll post this bit: How do the Open Source software movement, bicycle sub-culture, guerilla gardening, and the Burning Man Festival fit together? Author and Critical Mass co-founder Chris Carlsson connects these dots as he profiles the social networks that are cooperating...

This officer was subsequently stripped of his badge and gun. The rest of story is at the New York Post site. (Thanks to Karen for the tip!)

Dozens of friendly people, all on bikes. What’s not to like? Since I moved to Albany, I’ve been working a lot and socializing very little. Tonight, I met a huge gang of fun folks all at once at Critical Mass. Much like Rochester, this CM is a very laid-back affair. All different [...]