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Wait.. Last nights ride occurred cause of the net? Hasn't WPCM been going on for sometime now, if not a couple of years?
If it has been an ongoing ride, then I would say Fridays ride was not because of the net, no matter how people found out about it..
While I appreciated your original post, where is this going exactly?
Rik, I never appointed myself leader in the first place, and actively tried for many months to try and identify "a new leader." Someone else posted the event with my name on it -- not I.
Rik, I never appointed myself leader in the first place, and actively tried for many months to try and identify "a new leader." Someone else posted the event with my name on it -- not I.
And thanks to this site, I ride way more than I would otherwise, in large part because it's helped me immensely to feel like a useful part of an active and welcoming (even to hipsters!) cycling community. So I'm gonna stay plugged in.
Michelle Green said:And thanks to this site, I ride way more than I would otherwise, in large part because it's helped me immensely to feel like a useful part of an active and welcoming (even to hipsters!) cycling community. So I'm gonna stay plugged in.
Oh come on... what else should we call them? Look, hipster is often a term of derision, but it doesn't have to be... we ride bikes, we're all a little hipster sometimes. ;-) (really not looking to start a new fight here).
And I'll concede that my comment about unplugging was unfair and didn't do much to further my argument. Sorry. But I still think Friday's right highlighted some real problems.
On that note, I'm going to celebrate Critical Mass today by going to a homemade brunch at a friend's. See y'all the last Friday, flyers in hand.
I'm really not trying to nitpick or drag this out way past its logical(?) conclusion, it just rubs me the wrong way when people use social classifications that, in their context, do seem to be genuinely derisive and not like a self-deprecating joke, especially when it's about something like biking, and even more then when it's about a ride like CM. I just think exclusionary parameters aren't helpful to the cause and are one (of many) things we just don't need when trying to imagine "the world as it could be"...
But that's it! I should say I really do understand your frustration with the whole thing as I've felt similarly on (non-WPCM) rides in the past, but I just usually shake it off and enjoy being on my bike with other people who enjoy being on their bikes, or I make up my own ride (which I hope wasn't the one Laura was referencing before! If so, we'll do better in April, darlin'!) :)
Pete Fein said:Michelle Green said:And thanks to this site, I ride way more than I would otherwise, in large part because it's helped me immensely to feel like a useful part of an active and welcoming (even to hipsters!) cycling community. So I'm gonna stay plugged in.
Oh come on... what else should we call them? Look, hipster is often a term of derision, but it doesn't have to be... we ride bikes, we're all a little hipster sometimes. ;-) (really not looking to start a new fight here).
And I'll concede that my comment about unplugging was unfair and didn't do much to further my argument. Sorry. But I still think Friday's right highlighted some real problems.
On that note, I'm going to celebrate Critical Mass today by going to a homemade brunch at a friend's. See y'all the last Friday, flyers in hand.
Laura said: "And this said man who tried to molest Gabe, well I paid him to do it, and want my money back because he obviously failed." ;-)
Damnit! I knew soemthing was up! ;-)
Pete has a stick stuck somewhere. ;-)
love,
gabe
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