Last Friday I went to my second Critical Mass in Chicago and it was perfect. In contrast to my last time at the end of last summer, there were no aggrovated drivers, no aggrovated bikers and no fracas with the police. Everyone was nice as pie. So imagine if you will, thousands of cyclists all meeting in Daley Plaza waiting expectantly for the pent up energy to be released. And then with no warning, the ‘organisers’ get the group mobilised and we start. And this time instead of the route through the city to Lincoln Square, we went south, meandering back and forth all the way down to 35th St and Damen. Our destination was Huck Finn’s Donuts.
One driver at Huck Finns really wanted to get her donut on but was patently blocked by several hundred bikes and cyclists. After a fifteen minute exchange with the group and a police intervention did she give up her battle for a French Crullers.
Photos from this Critical Mass are here.
