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Comment by Erin on August 29, 2009 at 3:23am

Sorry to be so ignorant, but what's a "fixie"?

Comment by Doug Haynes on August 29, 2009 at 2:51am

I'll agree mass was way to fast, I had to do double time the entire thing and was hardly keeping up where as normally, even on my tall bike, I can go from back to front and front to back at least twice over even the longest mass.

Because of the high speed of the front of the mass there where huge gaps which only got worse when cars would charge the empty spots because no one was corking. In my opinion I think no one was corking because they didn't want to stop for fear they would end up left behind by the fast mass. Plus the insanely long mass only serves to make the hot headed motorists twice as pissed and twice as hostile to corkers and I am not sure if I can really blame them; it has to be very annoying to be stopped and instead of a dense wall of bikes with a definable end see a loose bunch of stragglers go on forever with huge gaps. This made the entire mass more dangerous, less enjoyable and caused people to drop off early.

This was, for me, the least enjoyable mass I have been a part of and that includes one where I was caught by mass as a motorist.

I am rarely in the very front of the mass but I can't imagine that if the few regulars who 'lead' the mass went slow and just let the fixie pixies run off and realize they where alone after a while they would slow it down; I know fixies are getting popular but I can not believe that in the last month they have increased in number enough to steal the mass.

On a side note: I find it interesting that the mass that kept getting planned 'short' so it would be easy for beginners was the one that moved so fast it was hard to keep up...

Comment by Aaron Bussey on August 28, 2009 at 7:25pm

I tried getting a big mass up while going on Iron...did it help at all?

Comment by Andrew Bedno on August 25, 2009 at 5:13am

PRE-RIDE planned Wednesday 7:30pm from D'Agostinos River West, 752 N Ogden (Chicago/Elston)
Hydrate+chow, then ride route remainder south to 31st beach, under 12 miles.
South of UIC is least familiar to me (never seen bubbly creek), so what I most want to confirm.
Then north past NavyPier home to Foster for me. Chance of rain. PLEASE for safety I don't want to pre-ride this alone.

http://thechainlink.org/events/water-mass-preride

Comment by Aaron Bussey on August 14, 2009 at 8:00am

Davo - you crazy man hahaha I was referring to the Drive.

Comment by Davo on August 14, 2009 at 7:49am

"Comment by Aaron Bussey on August 4, 2009 at 11:06pm @ Julie I totally thought the same - I was like "Ok Who wants to go on LSD?" "

Did you mean ACID or Lake Shore Drive either way I've done them both on mass

Comment by Aaron Bussey on August 4, 2009 at 5:06pm

@ Julie I totally thought the same - I was like "Ok Who wants to go on LSD?"

Comment by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on August 3, 2009 at 10:01am

thanks h3. i remember turning around a wacker cause everyone thought the police weren't letting us on LSD.

Comment by NO, Bernie NO!!! on August 3, 2009 at 7:03am

A few Pix from CM

Comment by Erin on August 2, 2009 at 2:57pm

Okay, why didn't my link show up? I used the infinity sign, like h3 said. Anyway, if this doesn't work, check out the Trib's home page. Critical Mass photos

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