I witnessed a Critical Mass bike ride last night

[chrisinhouston]

We were sitting around in our hotel room on the 20th floor of the Sir Francis Drake last night waiting for one of my kids to come into town for dinner and suddenly we could hear a lot of noise from down on the street. We proceed to watch over 2000 on bicycles riding down the road (Sutter perhaps). They were wall to wall and most had bike tail lights which flashed red and made a great visual. We saw one group of about 300 do a Cyclone where they just start circling in a busy intersection and bring all traffic to a halt, even the street cars. I went on for what seemed like 5-6 minutes and when it all passed we could see them as they went west and the trail of bikes covered at least 7 blocks.

I'm all for promoting bike riding and less use of cars but I don't know if I like their method