Surprisingly, the most recent Aurora/99 trip caught the attention of alot of people here in Seattle, including SPD. They are quite cranky seeing as how they only ask that we stay the fizz-uck off Aurora/99 in exchange for free reign of downtown and the greater Seattle area.

Pinky swear, SPD? Pinky swear or it's not happening!

Let the fuckers that go on 99 get arrested

I'm looking forward to the beatings.
I've never felt comfortable riding on the Viaduct en Mass, despite its great views and forbidden-fruit goodness. Luckily, the weather should turn to shit any minute now and Mass should be much more level headed and steerable until spring.

November Mass, I want to do loops of downtown.

Critical mass is a communal, mob-driven event.

sort of.

the "mob" does not make decisions in any democratic form... a few people are always deciding where to turn or not to turn and others follow in an effort to keep the grop together. it turns out that if about 5-10 people in the front make a decision about where to go, it'll go there. the one person who goes elsewhere will be ignored. so, if you like the idea of riding in critical mass, and don't like the idea of being tear gassed or dealing with mass arrests, pepper spray and tasers it might be worth thinking about doing something constructive.

sort of.

the "mob" does not make decisions in any democratic form... a few people are always deciding where to turn or not to turn and others follow in an effort to keep the grop together.

a few people are always deciding where to turn or not to turn and others follow in an effort to keep the grop together. it turns out that if about 5-10 people in the front make a decision about where to go, it'll go there.

Pinky/pinkie swears are serious business!

fuck; Ben, Henry and Sketchy could stay in front and no one would would dare challange their directions for fear of a verbal assualt of a lifetime.

Instead of 99, critical mass should ride where cyclists are shot.

DELRIDGE WAY SW

I was up front on the ride where we went on the arora bridge and it was 15 dudes all asking each other; "Where do we go guyz?!? I dunno where do YOU want to go?" and some dude came sprinting up shouting 99! 99! over and over so they all followed.

Let's condense up front; start rallying early and we can focus the shit on switch backs through downtown, and maybe even do the loop we've been talking about. They will listen to who is loudest and who appears to know their shit.

fuck; Ben, Henry and Sketchy could stay in front and no one would would dare challange their directions for fear of a verbal assualt of a lifetime.

Don't even bother quoting me. The sorry truth is... mass loves to block yuppies during rush hour...

Don't even bother quoting me.

i ride down 99 from fremont to downtown a couple of times a week.

Why? I can understand riding across the bridge, but i can't imagine how 99 is a better route than Dexter to downtown.

like I said before, no one rides on 99 on their daily ride to and from work, bad shit happens to cyclist at bad intersections and busy streets like ferman, getting on and of the fremont bridge, ballard bridge, u bridge. crossing the new SLUT tracks, riding to the local store to get food, broadway, have ya ridden down that mother fucker lately, just crossing Denny way, stoneway. Any yuppi infested street in fremont. If you think its bad here, try riding in belview. These are alot of the places that we ride daily. NOT 99

I need spell check

Why? I can understand riding across the bridge, but i can't imagine how 99 is a better route than Dexter to downtown.