[van-announce] Critical Mass Ride and Roll "With Pride!"

[Press Release Media Service]

For Immediate Release

Critical Mass Ride and Roll "With Pride!"
Friday, July 28, 2006

Join fellow bicyclists, skaters, and bladers for this leisurely and spirited ride and roll through the streets of Vancouver. Straight or Bent, celebrating our public space, meet at the Vancouver Art Gallery on the Georgia Street side between 5:00 and 5:30 p.m. -- and roll and ride at 6:00 p.m. The ride is on rain or shine. Decorated bicycles, trailers, costumes, signs, noisemakers, sound systems, drums, trailers, and wildly modified bicycles are all highly encouraged.

July Mass especially invites the Queer Community already among us for an inclusive street party on wheels. We WILL ride down Davie.

Pre-rides to Critical Mass:

UBC riders meet at the UBC Bike Hub, on the north east end of the Student Union Building, at 4:30 p.m. for a group ride to the Vancouver Art Gallery. Phone 604-822-BIKE for details.

East Van riders meet 4:00 p.m., leaving 4:30 p.m., from Grandview Park, 1200-block Commercial Drive, for a group ride to the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Celebrated around the world, Critical Mass is a grassroots reclamation of public space -- on the last Friday of the month -- which allows cyclists and other self-propelled people to move safely and comfortably through city streets in a car-free space. Non-polluting forms of transportation are promoted.

For more information: 
http://www.velolove.bc.ca
http://vancouvercm.blogspot.com
velolove at velolove.bc.ca

Worldwide details may be found at:
http://criticalmassrides.info or http://www.critical-mass.org

Video of last month's ride:
http://www.margonaut.com/2006/07/critical-mass-vancouver-june-2006.html