3. April, 2002 - Critical Mass
- Critical mass and the Mayor also talks about bicycle registration in Minneapolis.
- The results of Critical Mass Meeting with Mayor Rybak. We'll see how Sgt. Arradondo does in getting folks their bikes back. Maybe he gets a donut. [Jim]
- Minnesota Statutes 2001, 169.222. Operation of a bicycle. [Jim]
- MN law regarding bicycling, as commented on by one masser, which also includes notes on the city of Minneapolis' registration law. [Jim]
- I know it's been a heavy concentration of stuff about Critical Mass so far this week. Sorry if that bothers you, but I get grumpy when I see the Minneapolis Police Department being clueless about bike laws (I've been told I'm required to ride on the sidewalk, as one example), and when they moved from clueless to outright hostile last Friday (it's not the first time), it got my goat. I think that bicyclists should follow the law, but some of the laws make biking more dangerous, and we need to work on fixing those.
In an email, my friend Jim said that Somehow creating a disturbance is, to me, part of the point.
I'm thinking that it's quite possible to create a disturbance and still be legal. And I think that might be a solution. It'll piss off some of the cops even more if everything's kept legal (just barely) while still being as disturbing as possible, too.
- A bit of good reading about biking is Effective Cycling ISBN:0262560704 by John Forester. I don't agree with all of his ideas, but there are things about how to ride in traffic that parallel what Critical Mass is trying to achieve, and have been helpful in my day-to-day riding around town.
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
Last updated on Wed, 03 Apr 2002 11:01:39.