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Lime-green bike lanes crisscross the city’s roads, barriers discourage drivers from entering bike lanes, and designated routes and slow streets let riders get away from cars more easily. In 2021, San Franciscans made 4.7 million trips on bicycles, and the city boasts more than 463 miles of bike lanes, paths and trails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just 30 years ago, none of this existed. There were just a few bike lanes, no slow streets and not nearly as many people on bikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was literally no place where the bicycle was accepted to be on the road. Every square inch of the width of Market Street was full with motorized vehicles, buses or streetcars,” said Chris Carlsson, author and historian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late ’80s and early ’90s, Carlsson would commute down Market Street to an office on Rincon Hill, right by the Bay Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a lot of abuse hurled at you, verbally mostly. But there would also occasionally be the aggressive motorist who would actually try to cut you off or bump you off the road,” said Carlsson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cyclists who rode during that time remember the situation similarly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You weren’t allowed to bicycle in San Francisco in the early ’90s,” said Hugh D’Andrade, a friend and collaborator of Carlsson’s. “I mean, you certainly could do it, it was legal, but you were taking your life into your own hands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One night, on the last Friday of the month in September of 1992, Carlsson and a group of friends decided to take action. They planned to gather at Embarcadero Plaza, right by the Ferry Building in downtown San Francisco, and ride home together. They called the ride “The Commute Clot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were asserting our right to the streets, essentially. One of the slogans that came out that period was that we’re not blocking traffic, we are traffic. So if you’re sick of being treated like crap on the streets of the city, show up for this thing and ride home in a group. About 50 people showed up,” said Carlsson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They ended up riding southwest along Market Street to Zeitgeist, a bar in the mission. Carlsson said the experience was euphoric. The group made plans to do another Commute Clot the next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the beginning of what became known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcriticalmass.org/\">Critical Mass\u003c/a> — a group bicycling event that is often referred to as an “organized coincidence” or a “leaderless phenomenon.” That’s because for the last 30 years the ride has met at Embarcadero Plaza on the last Friday of every month and flooded the city with hundreds, sometimes thousands, of cyclists riding together in one or sometimes multiple dense packs, despite the fact that it has no leadership, no formal organization and no planned route. It’s also spread outside of San Francisco. Chris Carlsson estimates more than 350 cities across the world hold Critical Mass rides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ride also played a pivotal role in the evolution of the city’s robust bicycle network. But Critical Mass didn’t do it alone. In the early ’90s, right when Critical Mass was getting its start, the \u003ca href=\"https://sfbike.org/\">San Francisco Bicycle Coalition\u003c/a> also was forming.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Working together, separately\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Today the bicycle coalition is a political organizing powerhouse that advocates for safer cycling and alternative transportation policy in San Francisco. But back then, it was a nascent nonprofit meeting in the back of a Chinese restaurant called The Pot and Pan in the Inner Sunset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people who made decisions were whoever showed up,” said Dave Snyder, who was elected as the coalition’s first executive director in 1991. “They elected me executive director with a salary of $0 to help get the organization started.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critical Mass and the bicycle coalition have similar goals: raising awareness and making the streets safer for people on bicycles. But they couldn’t be more different in how they work toward that. While Critical Mass is simply an event — a raw, unmediated expression of the frustration cyclists feel at being second-class citizens on the city’s streets — the bicycle coalition is a more policy-focused group with its eyes set on changing things from within City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the bicycle coalition has always been a mainstream group representing the average person who would like to ride a bike on the streets but can’t because they’re not safe enough,” said Snyder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Carlsson went to one of the early bicycle coalition meetings in August 1992, and tried to get them to endorse his idea for the Commute Clot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We decided that we would not endorse it, but we would tell people about it. That it wasn’t something that we [could] control, but that it was an important cultural event. So we would make sure everybody knew about it, but that would be the extent of our involvement,” said Snyder. “When you’re a nonprofit that has a legal responsibility, you don’t want to take any responsibility for a ride that you can’t control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941590\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1321312454.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11941590\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1321312454-800x479.jpg\" alt=\"A group of cyclists happily riding through San Francisco streets together. \" width=\"800\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1321312454-800x479.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1321312454-1020x610.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1321312454-160x96.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1321312454-1536x919.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1321312454-2048x1225.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1321312454-1920x1149.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Critical Mass participants bike from Justin Herman Plaza to Candlestick Park in one of the earliest bicycle rides on the city’s streets, May 27, 1994. \u003ccite>(Photo By Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even though the coalition said no, Critical Mass began picking up steam. By the mid-’90s, thousands of people would participate in Critical Mass rides every month. Carlsson says one reason for the growth of the ride was that anyone could make the ride what they wanted it to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So you didn’t have to adopt a dogma, either political or religious. You could just come and you really only needed to be interested in riding your bike,” said Carlsson. “Then you have the actual euphoric experience of riding through the streets in a group of bicycles. It changes the auditory environment, it changes the olfactory environment, everything is different. It’s really a surprise the first time you do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tension grows\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But the cold reality of being stopped by those bikes in Friday rush-hour traffic as Critical Mass passed by was not as serene an experience for people in cars and buses. Imagine trying to drive home on a Friday night, and in addition to the normal traffic, thousands of bicyclists are streaming in front of you. You’re stopped at an intersection and watching as the traffic light goes from green to red to green again, and you don’t go anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critical Mass rides sometimes involve a practice called “corking,” where a group of riders stand at an intersection and block traffic while the rest of the ride passes. Depending on the size of the ride, drivers can be held up for around 15 or 20 minutes. In the early days of Critical Mass, the San Francisco Police Department would actually assist the ride in blocking traffic while the bicyclists passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Critical Mass grew in size through the years, so did the amount of time drivers were obligated to wait for the mass. People got frustrated. Drivers would try to push through the mass, screaming at cyclists while they attempted to inch their car through the intersections. Cyclists would respond by yelling back, or pounding on a car hood. Sometimes these interactions became physically violent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critical Mass soon gained a reputation for being aggressive and antagonistic. Carlsson says he thinks the ride was often portrayed unfairly in the media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea that we went out attacking cars … that never happens in Critical Mass. People might respond to a car that is trying to run them over by hitting them, or smashing windows on some occasions. That’s happened. But not unprovoked. It’s always been because a motorist loses it and decides they can just ram through the bikes with their car,” said Carlsson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cyclists thought of themselves as part of traffic, not causing it. The thinking: When traffic is caused by cars, it’s normal. When it’s caused by bicycles, it’s treated as something to be stopped. “I’m sorry for the inconvenience, but what about all the other times you’re inconvenienced and you just think that’s normal?” said Carlsson. [baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlsson pushes back against the idea that Critical Mass was about a sort of class war between people on bikes and people in cars. Rather, he says, it was intended to be celebratory and invitational. They wanted people in the cars to join them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People in their cars are just like us. We’re just like them. We’re in a car on another day, we just don’t want to admit it,” said Carlsson.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cutting a deal\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Things took a turn when Willie Brown was elected mayor of San Francisco in 1996.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I became mayor, and I said, ‘That is not subject to acceptance, period. You violate the law by running red lights, disrupting the streets. You are subject to be prosecuted,'” said Brown in an interview with KQED in January 2023. “So I went to war with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown wanted Critical Mass to leave at a later time and follow a police-approved route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They disrupted the whole goddamn town,” Brown recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tasked City Supervisor Michael Yaki with trying to bring Critical Mass to heel. The bicycle coalition took notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Snyder, then executive director of the bicycle coalition, got a call from a friend who worked in public relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘Hey, Dave, they’re talking about Critical Mass and bicyclists in the paper every day, and they never mentioned the Bicycle Coalition.’ And I said, ‘Yeah, isn’t that great?’ And there was silence on the other end. He goes, ‘No, no, that’s not great. You need help.’ And he worked with us to talk about how we could take advantage of all this attention to promote our agenda,” recalled Snyder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Critical Mass didn’t have any formal leadership, Supervisor Yaki reached out to the next logical choice: the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the coalition had been pressing for bike lanes on some of the city’s biggest thoroughfares, but Snyder said the plan was just gathering dust. All of a sudden, they had leverage, and hearings on those bike lanes were on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In exchange for holding hearings on building some of the first bike lanes in the city, Supervisor Yaki asked the bicycle coalition to make sure Critical Mass would leave later and follow a police-approved route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bicycle coalition people said, ‘Well, yeah, we can tell them that, but they’re not gonna listen,’” said Snyder. “And I think they thought we were being coy, that we were telling him that because we wanted to keep an official arm’s-length distance. But we weren’t being coy. They did not listen to us, and we knew that would be the case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.21.46-PM.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11941591\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.21.46-PM-800x514.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.21.46-PM-800x514.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.21.46-PM-160x103.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.21.46-PM.png 987w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cyclists ride through the streets as part of a Critical Mass event on July 25, 1997. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ted White)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city didn’t realize that nobody, not even the bike coalition, had power over the mass. But the coalition did get their meetings, and those bike lanes eventually did get built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snyder was surprised. “One of the aides to Willie Brown was talking with me about the hearings that they were holding, and I asked her, ‘So what’s changed? Two years ago, I couldn’t get a hearing on any of this stuff,’” said Snyder. “And she just laughed and she said, ‘5,000 people in the streets, Dave. That’s what changed.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlsson remembers when Yaki announced that the city had reached a deal with the Bicycle Coalition. “It just meant nothing to us. We knew you’re gonna have no effect on anything other than potentially producing some serious chaos. And there was major chaos that night,” said Carlsson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It set the stage for the most chaotic and violent night in San Francisco Critical Mass history.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>July ’97\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On July 25, 1997, it’s estimated that 5,000 cyclists showed up at Embarcadero Plaza for the ride. Besides the unusually large number of riders, something else was different that night: The police had set up a public-address system. Police Capt. Dennis Martel spoke to the crowd, trying to project his voice above a chorus of boos from the cyclists, imploring them to follow the police-approved route, which was published in newspapers days before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-Mayor Willie Brown also addressed the crowd. He, too, was met with jeers. Suffice to say, nobody followed the police-approved route that night. The cyclists felt indignant that the police were trying to co-opt their ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941594\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.20.23-PM.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11941594 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.20.23-PM-800x510.png\" alt=\"An African American man wearing a suit and black fedora makes an announcement into a microphone. \" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.20.23-PM-800x510.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.20.23-PM-160x102.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.20.23-PM.png 985w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco’s then-mayor, Willie Brown, addresses a a crowd of thousands of cyclists on July 25, 1997. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ted White)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“All the bicyclists are booing [Brown] and he is really pissed. You could tell he’s really pissed. And he walks off the little stage they have and apparently he tells the cops, ‘Shut it down.’ And so they tried and they couldn’t because there was just too many cyclists and everybody just went in every direction,” remembered Carlsson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Snyder recalls the night as being utterly wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Five thousand people divided into 10 groups of 500 on average. Massive clogs of bicycles were all over downtown. It completely messed with traffic in downtown San Francisco for a couple of hours on that Friday,” recalled Snyder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Footage of the night from the bicycle documentary \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpsdy24xbLY&t=2394s\">We Are Traffic\u003c/a>\u003c/em> shows police mounted on motorcycles declaring the event an unlawful assembly and threatening to ticket and arrest cyclists and impound their bikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> article describing the night of July 25, 1997, reads sort of like a war report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cem>At 8:35 p.m. at Sacramento and Montgomery streets, police formed a skirmish line of a dozen officers with a backup of several dozen more. As the first of the cyclists were put into arrest wagons, a crowd of more than 150 bikers chanted, ‘Let them go.’\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>At Fifth and Howard, a rider said that a motorist deliberately swerved into him, flattening the rear wheel of his bike. At the same corner, police said a cyclist reached into the driver’s side of a stopped vehicle and socked the man behind the wheel.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Near Civic Center, an officer ticketed cyclist John Bruno for running a red light — and then warned him, ‘If I were you, I’d get out of here. It’s out of control.’\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941595\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.25.40-PM.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11941595 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.25.40-PM-800x533.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.25.40-PM-800x533.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.25.40-PM-160x107.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.25.40-PM.png 983w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Francisco police officer kneels on the neck of a cyclist while making an arrest during a Critical Mass event on July 25, 1997. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ted White)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One scene from that night includes a police officer kneeling on the neck of a woman, as the crowd shouts for them to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At another intersection, the police encircled about 100 cyclists and conducted a mass arrest. People were booked on charges of failure to disperse, unlawful assembly and blocking traffic, but none of them were convicted. One cyclist who was arrested that night later sued and won against the city for illegally declaring an unlawful assembly and arbitrarily arresting the cyclists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the dust settled, it was clear that San Francisco’s cycling community was demanding change — and they would not be ignored or suppressed any longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Reimagining San Francisco’s streets\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even though the bicycle coalition worked hard to distance itself from Critical Mass, it ended up being one of the greatest beneficiaries from the chaos of July 1997.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A few months after the July 1997 ride, I was in the elevator with Willie Brown in City Hall and I said, ‘Mr. Mayor, our membership has grown 50% since you cracked down on Critical Mass. I haven’t had a chance to thank you for that! Thank you, Mr. Mayor.’ And he laughed and said, ‘You’re welcome.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The events of July 25, 1997, drew attention to the issues the coalition had been fighting for for years, and showed there was a large, passionate electorate that wanted safer streets in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just drew attention to the issue like nothing else could,” said Snyder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the start of the reimagining of San Francisco’s streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58943_R0005712-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11941586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58943_R0005712-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Bicyclists zoom by in bikes lanes going both directions along San Francisco's Embarcadero at sunset.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58943_R0005712-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58943_R0005712-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58943_R0005712-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58943_R0005712-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58943_R0005712-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco’s Critical Mass, a mass bicycle ride that takes place on the last Friday of each month, celebrates its 30th anniversary on Sept. 30, 2022, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Valencia Street was the first example where the city traffic engineers took out a traffic lane to put in a bike lane and traffic wasn’t completely messed up. They called it the ‘Valencia epiphany.’ Truly, within the [San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency], that’s what they called it. With the support of the bicycle coalition and some key members of the Board of Supervisors, they started doing it all over the city,” said Snyder.[aside postID=news_11927460 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58902_DSC07979-qut-1020x680.jpg']Paradoxically, the decentralized, brash and confrontational Critical Mass gave rise to the political organizing machine that is the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition we know today, and the maze of bike lanes that snake their way around the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That wouldn’t have been possible if you hadn’t had a mass seizure in the streets by bicyclists for years and years on end every last Friday of the month. And it started in San Francisco and it’s grown throughout the world,” said Carlsson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Critical Mass in San Francisco is far less well-attended, even for the 30th anniversary ride, where hundreds, not thousands, of people showed up. It still has no leaders, and many of the original riders stopped going years ago. Carlsson calls it a zombie ride — it just exists on its own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941596\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58897_DSC07955-qut-1.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11941596\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58897_DSC07955-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man with a wide-brimmed hat, sunglasses, and a suit sits astride his custom bicycle constructed of a playground-style spring horse mounted to a BMX bike.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58897_DSC07955-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58897_DSC07955-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58897_DSC07955-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58897_DSC07955-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58897_DSC07955-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cyclist Slim Buick sits astride his custom bike on the 30th anniversary of Critical Mass on Sept. 30, 2022, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Group rides today\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since Carlsson and his friends rode home together in 1992, there has been an explosion of group rides in the Bay Area. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ebbikeparty\">East Bay Bike Party\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sjbikeparty.org/\">San José Bike Party\u003c/a> are similar to Critical Mass, only with more rules. The bike party stops at red lights, posts their route beforehand, and have designated stopping and regrouping areas so people can meet back up with the ride if they get separated. These regrouping areas are also often sites for dance parties among the thumping sound systems and flashing lights people adorn their bikes with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Richmond, \u003ca href=\"https://www.richcityrides.org/\">Rich City Rides\u003c/a> is focused on promoting healthy and active lifestyles in the city through cycling. They’re also working to bring everyone to an activity that is often seen as being overwhelmingly white and male.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2152-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11941600\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2152-800x722.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people pose with their bicycles, one person holds theirs aloft. \" width=\"800\" height=\"722\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2152-800x722.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2152-1020x920.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2152-160x144.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2152-1536x1386.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2152-2048x1848.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2152-1920x1732.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riders gather at the Richmond BART Plaza for a ride commemorating the third anniversary of a bike lane pilot on the Richmond-San Rafael bridge, organized by Rich City Rides. \u003ccite>(Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We focus intentionally on making sure that minorities are welcome and feel comfortable when they are at our space or at our activities in general,” said Dani Lanis, project manager with Rich City Rides. “There’s no aggression whatsoever. In fact, it’s all about inclusion, inclusivity and making sure that everybody feels comfortable, including kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rich City Rides also hosts a Black wellness hub, which has talking circles for the community, like Black Men Tea Talk Tuesday and Black Women Wellness Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lanis says that Rich City Rides will tailor their route according to the needs of the slowest or least experienced person on the ride. “We have little ones with us often, and so we could have a whole plan for where to ride on a day, and five minutes before we take off, if a bunch of 7-year-olds show up, we will totally change the route because all of our routes are dictated on who is the slowest person in the ride.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent ride celebrating the third anniversary of a bike-lane pilot program on the Richmond-San Rafael bridge, Candace Peters of Oakland said it’s exactly that type of atmosphere that brought her out for her first ride across the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This group doing it brought me out and motivated me to do it, so I probably wouldn’t do it by myself. I feel like I won’t get lost, I feel like I won’t get confused, I feel like if anything goes wrong, I can have help. I can kind of see what it’s like, and so when I want to do it by myself, I’m already aware of what I’m getting into and what I need to do and how to get there and how to get back,” said Peters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gesturing toward a bubble machine mounted onto the rack of a nearby bicycle, she added, “Bubbles make bike rides more fun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cycling in the Bay Area today\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Recent events thrust the issues Critical Mass originally organized around back into the spotlight. Earlier this month, people in cars intentionally attacked cyclists in a string of incidents over a single weekend. People in cars would open their doors into cyclists while they were riding, causing them to crash. Two people were seriously injured. Many of these people were on their way to or leaving the East Bay Bike Party. The \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/02/22/bay-area-cyclists-attacked-solidarity-ride-roll-out-crew/\">Oaklandside\u003c/a> reported there were 16 incidents of people being attacked that weekend, and that over 800 people turned out for a solidarity ride the following weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This has led people in the Bay Area cycling community to renew calls for more protections for cyclists — like protected bike lanes — continuing the work that Critical Mass and the bicycle coalition started 30 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"San Francisco wasn't always such a bike-friendly city. At least, not until the '90s, when two groups working without coordination made cyclists hard for the city to ignore. 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","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"The Night That Changed San Francisco Cycling Forever","datePublished":"2023-02-23T11:00:16.000Z","dateModified":"2023-11-21T01:54:39.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"Bay Curious","sourceUrl":"https://baycurious.org/","audioUrl":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/chrt.fm/track/EBCBFA/traffic.megaphone.fm/KQINC5398337761.mp3?updated=1677106958","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11941576/the-night-that-changed-san-francisco-cycling-forever","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/3xMsmE9\">\u003cem>Read a transcript of this episode.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Look around San Francisco’s streets today, and you’ll see all sorts of infrastructure designed to make bicycling in the city safer. Lime-green bike lanes crisscross the city’s roads, barriers discourage drivers from entering bike lanes, and designated routes and slow streets let riders get away from cars more easily. In 2021, San Franciscans made 4.7 million trips on bicycles, and the city boasts more than 463 miles of bike lanes, paths and trails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just 30 years ago, none of this existed. There were just a few bike lanes, no slow streets and not nearly as many people on bikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was literally no place where the bicycle was accepted to be on the road. Every square inch of the width of Market Street was full with motorized vehicles, buses or streetcars,” said Chris Carlsson, author and historian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late ’80s and early ’90s, Carlsson would commute down Market Street to an office on Rincon Hill, right by the Bay Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a lot of abuse hurled at you, verbally mostly. But there would also occasionally be the aggressive motorist who would actually try to cut you off or bump you off the road,” said Carlsson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cyclists who rode during that time remember the situation similarly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You weren’t allowed to bicycle in San Francisco in the early ’90s,” said Hugh D’Andrade, a friend and collaborator of Carlsson’s. “I mean, you certainly could do it, it was legal, but you were taking your life into your own hands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One night, on the last Friday of the month in September of 1992, Carlsson and a group of friends decided to take action. They planned to gather at Embarcadero Plaza, right by the Ferry Building in downtown San Francisco, and ride home together. They called the ride “The Commute Clot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were asserting our right to the streets, essentially. One of the slogans that came out that period was that we’re not blocking traffic, we are traffic. So if you’re sick of being treated like crap on the streets of the city, show up for this thing and ride home in a group. About 50 people showed up,” said Carlsson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They ended up riding southwest along Market Street to Zeitgeist, a bar in the mission. Carlsson said the experience was euphoric. The group made plans to do another Commute Clot the next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the beginning of what became known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcriticalmass.org/\">Critical Mass\u003c/a> — a group bicycling event that is often referred to as an “organized coincidence” or a “leaderless phenomenon.” That’s because for the last 30 years the ride has met at Embarcadero Plaza on the last Friday of every month and flooded the city with hundreds, sometimes thousands, of cyclists riding together in one or sometimes multiple dense packs, despite the fact that it has no leadership, no formal organization and no planned route. It’s also spread outside of San Francisco. Chris Carlsson estimates more than 350 cities across the world hold Critical Mass rides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ride also played a pivotal role in the evolution of the city’s robust bicycle network. But Critical Mass didn’t do it alone. In the early ’90s, right when Critical Mass was getting its start, the \u003ca href=\"https://sfbike.org/\">San Francisco Bicycle Coalition\u003c/a> also was forming.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Working together, separately\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Today the bicycle coalition is a political organizing powerhouse that advocates for safer cycling and alternative transportation policy in San Francisco. But back then, it was a nascent nonprofit meeting in the back of a Chinese restaurant called The Pot and Pan in the Inner Sunset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people who made decisions were whoever showed up,” said Dave Snyder, who was elected as the coalition’s first executive director in 1991. “They elected me executive director with a salary of $0 to help get the organization started.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critical Mass and the bicycle coalition have similar goals: raising awareness and making the streets safer for people on bicycles. But they couldn’t be more different in how they work toward that. While Critical Mass is simply an event — a raw, unmediated expression of the frustration cyclists feel at being second-class citizens on the city’s streets — the bicycle coalition is a more policy-focused group with its eyes set on changing things from within City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the bicycle coalition has always been a mainstream group representing the average person who would like to ride a bike on the streets but can’t because they’re not safe enough,” said Snyder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Carlsson went to one of the early bicycle coalition meetings in August 1992, and tried to get them to endorse his idea for the Commute Clot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We decided that we would not endorse it, but we would tell people about it. That it wasn’t something that we [could] control, but that it was an important cultural event. So we would make sure everybody knew about it, but that would be the extent of our involvement,” said Snyder. “When you’re a nonprofit that has a legal responsibility, you don’t want to take any responsibility for a ride that you can’t control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941590\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1321312454.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11941590\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1321312454-800x479.jpg\" alt=\"A group of cyclists happily riding through San Francisco streets together. \" width=\"800\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1321312454-800x479.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1321312454-1020x610.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1321312454-160x96.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1321312454-1536x919.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1321312454-2048x1225.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1321312454-1920x1149.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Critical Mass participants bike from Justin Herman Plaza to Candlestick Park in one of the earliest bicycle rides on the city’s streets, May 27, 1994. \u003ccite>(Photo By Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even though the coalition said no, Critical Mass began picking up steam. By the mid-’90s, thousands of people would participate in Critical Mass rides every month. Carlsson says one reason for the growth of the ride was that anyone could make the ride what they wanted it to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So you didn’t have to adopt a dogma, either political or religious. You could just come and you really only needed to be interested in riding your bike,” said Carlsson. “Then you have the actual euphoric experience of riding through the streets in a group of bicycles. It changes the auditory environment, it changes the olfactory environment, everything is different. It’s really a surprise the first time you do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tension grows\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But the cold reality of being stopped by those bikes in Friday rush-hour traffic as Critical Mass passed by was not as serene an experience for people in cars and buses. Imagine trying to drive home on a Friday night, and in addition to the normal traffic, thousands of bicyclists are streaming in front of you. You’re stopped at an intersection and watching as the traffic light goes from green to red to green again, and you don’t go anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critical Mass rides sometimes involve a practice called “corking,” where a group of riders stand at an intersection and block traffic while the rest of the ride passes. Depending on the size of the ride, drivers can be held up for around 15 or 20 minutes. In the early days of Critical Mass, the San Francisco Police Department would actually assist the ride in blocking traffic while the bicyclists passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Critical Mass grew in size through the years, so did the amount of time drivers were obligated to wait for the mass. People got frustrated. Drivers would try to push through the mass, screaming at cyclists while they attempted to inch their car through the intersections. Cyclists would respond by yelling back, or pounding on a car hood. Sometimes these interactions became physically violent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critical Mass soon gained a reputation for being aggressive and antagonistic. Carlsson says he thinks the ride was often portrayed unfairly in the media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea that we went out attacking cars … that never happens in Critical Mass. People might respond to a car that is trying to run them over by hitting them, or smashing windows on some occasions. That’s happened. But not unprovoked. It’s always been because a motorist loses it and decides they can just ram through the bikes with their car,” said Carlsson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cyclists thought of themselves as part of traffic, not causing it. The thinking: When traffic is caused by cars, it’s normal. When it’s caused by bicycles, it’s treated as something to be stopped. “I’m sorry for the inconvenience, but what about all the other times you’re inconvenienced and you just think that’s normal?” said Carlsson. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlsson pushes back against the idea that Critical Mass was about a sort of class war between people on bikes and people in cars. Rather, he says, it was intended to be celebratory and invitational. They wanted people in the cars to join them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People in their cars are just like us. We’re just like them. We’re in a car on another day, we just don’t want to admit it,” said Carlsson.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cutting a deal\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Things took a turn when Willie Brown was elected mayor of San Francisco in 1996.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I became mayor, and I said, ‘That is not subject to acceptance, period. You violate the law by running red lights, disrupting the streets. You are subject to be prosecuted,'” said Brown in an interview with KQED in January 2023. “So I went to war with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown wanted Critical Mass to leave at a later time and follow a police-approved route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They disrupted the whole goddamn town,” Brown recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tasked City Supervisor Michael Yaki with trying to bring Critical Mass to heel. The bicycle coalition took notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Snyder, then executive director of the bicycle coalition, got a call from a friend who worked in public relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘Hey, Dave, they’re talking about Critical Mass and bicyclists in the paper every day, and they never mentioned the Bicycle Coalition.’ And I said, ‘Yeah, isn’t that great?’ And there was silence on the other end. He goes, ‘No, no, that’s not great. You need help.’ And he worked with us to talk about how we could take advantage of all this attention to promote our agenda,” recalled Snyder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Critical Mass didn’t have any formal leadership, Supervisor Yaki reached out to the next logical choice: the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the coalition had been pressing for bike lanes on some of the city’s biggest thoroughfares, but Snyder said the plan was just gathering dust. All of a sudden, they had leverage, and hearings on those bike lanes were on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In exchange for holding hearings on building some of the first bike lanes in the city, Supervisor Yaki asked the bicycle coalition to make sure Critical Mass would leave later and follow a police-approved route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bicycle coalition people said, ‘Well, yeah, we can tell them that, but they’re not gonna listen,’” said Snyder. “And I think they thought we were being coy, that we were telling him that because we wanted to keep an official arm’s-length distance. But we weren’t being coy. They did not listen to us, and we knew that would be the case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.21.46-PM.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11941591\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.21.46-PM-800x514.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.21.46-PM-800x514.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.21.46-PM-160x103.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.21.46-PM.png 987w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cyclists ride through the streets as part of a Critical Mass event on July 25, 1997. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ted White)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city didn’t realize that nobody, not even the bike coalition, had power over the mass. But the coalition did get their meetings, and those bike lanes eventually did get built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snyder was surprised. “One of the aides to Willie Brown was talking with me about the hearings that they were holding, and I asked her, ‘So what’s changed? Two years ago, I couldn’t get a hearing on any of this stuff,’” said Snyder. “And she just laughed and she said, ‘5,000 people in the streets, Dave. That’s what changed.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlsson remembers when Yaki announced that the city had reached a deal with the Bicycle Coalition. “It just meant nothing to us. We knew you’re gonna have no effect on anything other than potentially producing some serious chaos. And there was major chaos that night,” said Carlsson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It set the stage for the most chaotic and violent night in San Francisco Critical Mass history.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>July ’97\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On July 25, 1997, it’s estimated that 5,000 cyclists showed up at Embarcadero Plaza for the ride. Besides the unusually large number of riders, something else was different that night: The police had set up a public-address system. Police Capt. Dennis Martel spoke to the crowd, trying to project his voice above a chorus of boos from the cyclists, imploring them to follow the police-approved route, which was published in newspapers days before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-Mayor Willie Brown also addressed the crowd. He, too, was met with jeers. Suffice to say, nobody followed the police-approved route that night. The cyclists felt indignant that the police were trying to co-opt their ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941594\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.20.23-PM.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11941594 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.20.23-PM-800x510.png\" alt=\"An African American man wearing a suit and black fedora makes an announcement into a microphone. \" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.20.23-PM-800x510.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.20.23-PM-160x102.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.20.23-PM.png 985w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco’s then-mayor, Willie Brown, addresses a a crowd of thousands of cyclists on July 25, 1997. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ted White)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“All the bicyclists are booing [Brown] and he is really pissed. You could tell he’s really pissed. And he walks off the little stage they have and apparently he tells the cops, ‘Shut it down.’ And so they tried and they couldn’t because there was just too many cyclists and everybody just went in every direction,” remembered Carlsson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Snyder recalls the night as being utterly wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Five thousand people divided into 10 groups of 500 on average. Massive clogs of bicycles were all over downtown. It completely messed with traffic in downtown San Francisco for a couple of hours on that Friday,” recalled Snyder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Footage of the night from the bicycle documentary \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpsdy24xbLY&t=2394s\">We Are Traffic\u003c/a>\u003c/em> shows police mounted on motorcycles declaring the event an unlawful assembly and threatening to ticket and arrest cyclists and impound their bikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> article describing the night of July 25, 1997, reads sort of like a war report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cem>At 8:35 p.m. at Sacramento and Montgomery streets, police formed a skirmish line of a dozen officers with a backup of several dozen more. As the first of the cyclists were put into arrest wagons, a crowd of more than 150 bikers chanted, ‘Let them go.’\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>At Fifth and Howard, a rider said that a motorist deliberately swerved into him, flattening the rear wheel of his bike. At the same corner, police said a cyclist reached into the driver’s side of a stopped vehicle and socked the man behind the wheel.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Near Civic Center, an officer ticketed cyclist John Bruno for running a red light — and then warned him, ‘If I were you, I’d get out of here. It’s out of control.’\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941595\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.25.40-PM.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11941595 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.25.40-PM-800x533.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.25.40-PM-800x533.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.25.40-PM-160x107.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-1.25.40-PM.png 983w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Francisco police officer kneels on the neck of a cyclist while making an arrest during a Critical Mass event on July 25, 1997. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ted White)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One scene from that night includes a police officer kneeling on the neck of a woman, as the crowd shouts for them to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At another intersection, the police encircled about 100 cyclists and conducted a mass arrest. People were booked on charges of failure to disperse, unlawful assembly and blocking traffic, but none of them were convicted. One cyclist who was arrested that night later sued and won against the city for illegally declaring an unlawful assembly and arbitrarily arresting the cyclists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the dust settled, it was clear that San Francisco’s cycling community was demanding change — and they would not be ignored or suppressed any longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Reimagining San Francisco’s streets\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even though the bicycle coalition worked hard to distance itself from Critical Mass, it ended up being one of the greatest beneficiaries from the chaos of July 1997.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A few months after the July 1997 ride, I was in the elevator with Willie Brown in City Hall and I said, ‘Mr. Mayor, our membership has grown 50% since you cracked down on Critical Mass. I haven’t had a chance to thank you for that! Thank you, Mr. Mayor.’ And he laughed and said, ‘You’re welcome.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The events of July 25, 1997, drew attention to the issues the coalition had been fighting for for years, and showed there was a large, passionate electorate that wanted safer streets in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just drew attention to the issue like nothing else could,” said Snyder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the start of the reimagining of San Francisco’s streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58943_R0005712-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11941586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58943_R0005712-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Bicyclists zoom by in bikes lanes going both directions along San Francisco's Embarcadero at sunset.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58943_R0005712-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58943_R0005712-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58943_R0005712-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58943_R0005712-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58943_R0005712-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco’s Critical Mass, a mass bicycle ride that takes place on the last Friday of each month, celebrates its 30th anniversary on Sept. 30, 2022, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Valencia Street was the first example where the city traffic engineers took out a traffic lane to put in a bike lane and traffic wasn’t completely messed up. They called it the ‘Valencia epiphany.’ Truly, within the [San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency], that’s what they called it. With the support of the bicycle coalition and some key members of the Board of Supervisors, they started doing it all over the city,” said Snyder.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11927460","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58902_DSC07979-qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Paradoxically, the decentralized, brash and confrontational Critical Mass gave rise to the political organizing machine that is the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition we know today, and the maze of bike lanes that snake their way around the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That wouldn’t have been possible if you hadn’t had a mass seizure in the streets by bicyclists for years and years on end every last Friday of the month. And it started in San Francisco and it’s grown throughout the world,” said Carlsson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Critical Mass in San Francisco is far less well-attended, even for the 30th anniversary ride, where hundreds, not thousands, of people showed up. It still has no leaders, and many of the original riders stopped going years ago. Carlsson calls it a zombie ride — it just exists on its own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941596\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58897_DSC07955-qut-1.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11941596\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58897_DSC07955-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man with a wide-brimmed hat, sunglasses, and a suit sits astride his custom bicycle constructed of a playground-style spring horse mounted to a BMX bike.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58897_DSC07955-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58897_DSC07955-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58897_DSC07955-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58897_DSC07955-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58897_DSC07955-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cyclist Slim Buick sits astride his custom bike on the 30th anniversary of Critical Mass on Sept. 30, 2022, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Group rides today\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since Carlsson and his friends rode home together in 1992, there has been an explosion of group rides in the Bay Area. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ebbikeparty\">East Bay Bike Party\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sjbikeparty.org/\">San José Bike Party\u003c/a> are similar to Critical Mass, only with more rules. The bike party stops at red lights, posts their route beforehand, and have designated stopping and regrouping areas so people can meet back up with the ride if they get separated. These regrouping areas are also often sites for dance parties among the thumping sound systems and flashing lights people adorn their bikes with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Richmond, \u003ca href=\"https://www.richcityrides.org/\">Rich City Rides\u003c/a> is focused on promoting healthy and active lifestyles in the city through cycling. They’re also working to bring everyone to an activity that is often seen as being overwhelmingly white and male.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2152-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11941600\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2152-800x722.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people pose with their bicycles, one person holds theirs aloft. \" width=\"800\" height=\"722\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2152-800x722.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2152-1020x920.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2152-160x144.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2152-1536x1386.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2152-2048x1848.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_2152-1920x1732.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riders gather at the Richmond BART Plaza for a ride commemorating the third anniversary of a bike lane pilot on the Richmond-San Rafael bridge, organized by Rich City Rides. \u003ccite>(Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We focus intentionally on making sure that minorities are welcome and feel comfortable when they are at our space or at our activities in general,” said Dani Lanis, project manager with Rich City Rides. “There’s no aggression whatsoever. In fact, it’s all about inclusion, inclusivity and making sure that everybody feels comfortable, including kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rich City Rides also hosts a Black wellness hub, which has talking circles for the community, like Black Men Tea Talk Tuesday and Black Women Wellness Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lanis says that Rich City Rides will tailor their route according to the needs of the slowest or least experienced person on the ride. “We have little ones with us often, and so we could have a whole plan for where to ride on a day, and five minutes before we take off, if a bunch of 7-year-olds show up, we will totally change the route because all of our routes are dictated on who is the slowest person in the ride.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent ride celebrating the third anniversary of a bike-lane pilot program on the Richmond-San Rafael bridge, Candace Peters of Oakland said it’s exactly that type of atmosphere that brought her out for her first ride across the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This group doing it brought me out and motivated me to do it, so I probably wouldn’t do it by myself. I feel like I won’t get lost, I feel like I won’t get confused, I feel like if anything goes wrong, I can have help. I can kind of see what it’s like, and so when I want to do it by myself, I’m already aware of what I’m getting into and what I need to do and how to get there and how to get back,” said Peters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gesturing toward a bubble machine mounted onto the rack of a nearby bicycle, she added, “Bubbles make bike rides more fun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cycling in the Bay Area today\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Recent events thrust the issues Critical Mass originally organized around back into the spotlight. Earlier this month, people in cars intentionally attacked cyclists in a string of incidents over a single weekend. People in cars would open their doors into cyclists while they were riding, causing them to crash. Two people were seriously injured. Many of these people were on their way to or leaving the East Bay Bike Party. The \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/02/22/bay-area-cyclists-attacked-solidarity-ride-roll-out-crew/\">Oaklandside\u003c/a> reported there were 16 incidents of people being attacked that weekend, and that over 800 people turned out for a solidarity ride the following weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This has led people in the Bay Area cycling community to renew calls for more protections for cyclists — like protected bike lanes — continuing the work that Critical Mass and the bicycle coalition started 30 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"baycuriousquestion","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11941576/the-night-that-changed-san-francisco-cycling-forever","authors":["11785"],"programs":["news_33523"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_2851","news_3233","news_18555","news_27626","news_6652","news_38","news_3238"],"featImg":"news_11941587","label":"source_news_11941576"},"news_11927460":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11927460","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11927460","score":null,"sort":[1664671759000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-leaderless-phenomenon-critical-mass-celebrates-30th-anniversary","title":"'A Leaderless Phenomenon': Critical Mass Celebrates 30th Anniversary","publishDate":1664671759,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At least 400 people turned out to Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco on Friday evening to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the cycling event known as Critical Mass. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At its simplest, Critical Mass is a group bicycle ride. But it has also been called an “organized coincidence” or a “leaderless phenomenon.” That’s because for the last 30 years, on the last Friday of every month, hundreds and sometimes thousands of cyclists have participated in a ride that has no leadership, organization or planned route to speak of. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927466\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11927466\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2968-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A group of older people pose for a group photo with waving and smiling and buildings in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2968-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2968-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2968-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2968-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2968-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2968-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early Critical Mass riders. From left, Justin Fraser, Amandeep Jawa, Larry Chin, Anna Sojourner, Glenn Bachman, Will Rostov, Chris Carlsson, LisaRuth Elliot, Hugh D’Andrade, Steven Black, Russell Howze, Steve Jones, Quintin Mecke, and Nancy Botkin. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hugh D'Andrade)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Originally called the “Commute Clot,” the ride began in September 1992 when a group of about 50 friends decided to ride home together after work on a Friday. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Why don't we just get together at the end of the day and ride home together as a way of promoting our own collective experience of bicycling in extremely hostile conditions?” said Chris Carlsson, one of the cyclists who participated in the original ride.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927467\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11927467\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58935_R0005630-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Dozens of people on bicycles ride their bikes with the Ferry Building clock tower in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58935_R0005630-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58935_R0005630-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58935_R0005630-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58935_R0005630-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58935_R0005630-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ride began at 6:30 p.m. on Friday as hundreds of cyclists rode out from the Embarcadero. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cycling in San Francisco in the early 90s was a far cry from the protected bike lanes and hordes of bicycle commuters found on city streets today. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We were so angry because you weren't allowed to bicycle in San Francisco in the early 90s. I mean, you certainly could do it, it was legal, but you were taking your life into your own hands.” said Dave Snyder, another cyclist who participated in the original ride. “It was our way of collectively asserting our rights.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927468\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11927468 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/CM_visionary-800x317.jpg\" alt='A black-and-white illustration of people riding bikes with the words \"Critical Mass: Visionary Traffic Jams Since 1992\" written at the bottom' width=\"800\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/CM_visionary-800x317.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/CM_visionary-1020x404.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/CM_visionary-160x63.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/CM_visionary-1536x608.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/CM_visionary-2048x811.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/CM_visionary-1920x760.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Critical Mass Flyer from 2002 by Hugh D’Andrade, Courtesy of Hugh D'Andrade\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the years, the ride gained popularity in San Francisco. Snyder estimates that over 5,000 people attended a Critical Mass ride in 1996. The ride also spread to other cities. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“When it started to spread to other cities right away, we knew that it was something much bigger than we had initially intended,” said Hugh D’Andrade, another original Critical Mass rider. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927469\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11927469\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58916_DSC08062-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a white shirt and a woman in a red shirt with helmets and riding bikes, smile with other cyclists around them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58916_DSC08062-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58916_DSC08062-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58916_DSC08062-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58916_DSC08062-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58916_DSC08062-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Critical Mass has become an international event that has spread to hundreds of cities worldwide. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chris Carlsson estimates that Critical Mass events now take place in over 400 cities across the world.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As Critical Mass grew, so did the attention it got from local politicians. In 1997, then-Mayor Willie Brown famously \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/NEWS-ANALYSIS-Bike-Fiasco-Points-Up-S-F-2831483.php\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ordered the police\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to crack down on the event after thousands of cyclists snarled traffic in city streets.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927470\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11927470 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/CM20-poster-2-multi-flat-160x316.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/CM20-poster-2-multi-flat-160x316.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/CM20-poster-2-multi-flat.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Critical Mass Poster from 2012 by Hugh D’Andrade, Courtesy of Hugh D'Andrade\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dave Snyder, who was executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition at the time, said this moment in Critical Mass’ history produced an inflection point where membership in the Bicycle Coalition soared, and politicians realized they needed to heed calls for better bicycle infrastructure in the city. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That was when the city had to take seriously what the Bicycle Coalition had been asking it to do for a long time,” said Snyder. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It was really interesting when Willie Brown cracked down on Critical Mass. It just caused all the bicyclists to come out in support of our movement. Thanks Willie Brown,” said Hugh D’Andrade.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Critical Mass has received criticism over the years for instances where participants have acted aggressively and violently toward \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-critical-mass-bicyclist-conviction-san-francisco-assault-20160627-snap-story.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">motorists\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Cyclist Chris Carlsson says these people are a minority, and characterizes them as the “testosterone brigade.” He says it’s the same bad apples that are present at any public event, but it isn’t what the ride was intended to be, and it’s something the original riders say they fought against in the early years.[pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Chris Carlsson, original Critical Mass rider\"]'Once you're in the streets and you're filling the streets with bicycles and the sound of spinning wheels and tinkling bells and conversation, it just radically alters your imagination about what cities could be.'[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“In the early days of Critical Mass, we would put a lot of energy into circulating flyers and sort of arguing against that perspective and saying, ‘Hey, that's not really what it's about. We're all about being inclusive. We want to invite people out of their cars to join us.’” said Hugh D’Andrade. “And that took a lot of energy. And, over time, we stopped doing that as much.“\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927471\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11927471 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58933_R0005571-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in her late 30s holds her 10-year-old son and stands next to another woman in her 20s ass they smile at the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58933_R0005571-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58933_R0005571-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58933_R0005571-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58933_R0005571-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58933_R0005571-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SF residents Silver Koester, 10, and her mother Lyndsey Hawkins (center), enjoyed the ride. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">D’Andrade himself said, prior to Friday’s anniversary, he hadn’t participated in Critical Mass for a decade. He said he stopped going in 2012 because he felt that the ride had become more dominated by “very loud men yelling.” He said he didn’t feel like it was his scene anymore. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It's always been a leaderless phenomenon, and it's for everybody to shape it as they see fit. I would like to see more women, more people of color, more people with a friendly, inviting attitude coming out to join critical mass.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927472\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11927472 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58928_R0005516-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two men leaning on their bikes have a chat, one has long hair, the other is wearing a red bandana, both are in the early 20s.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58928_R0005516-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58928_R0005516-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58928_R0005516-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58928_R0005516-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58928_R0005516-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Critical Mass has been variously described as '\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">organized coincidence,' a 'leaderless phenomenon,' and a 'visionary traffic jam' over the last three decades.\u003c/span> \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The mood was celebratory on Friday as cyclists riding decorated bikes wearing costumes waited for the 30th anniversary ride to begin. Oakland resident Slim Buick, 55, has been riding with Critical Mass since the mid-90s, and arrived on a custom bicycle constructed of a playground-style spring horse mounted to a BMX bike. His favorite thing about attending? “Meeting people and just riding around.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927475\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11927475\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58904_DSC07998-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man with a wide-brimmed hat, sunglasses, and a suit stands in front of his custom bicycle constructed of a playground-style spring horse mounted to a BMX bike.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58904_DSC07998-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58904_DSC07998-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58904_DSC07998-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58904_DSC07998-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58904_DSC07998-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland resident Slim Buick, 55, arrived on a custom bicycle constructed of a playground-style spring horse mounted to a BMX bike. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elai Fresco, 30, said the first time he saw Critical Mass was in Madrid, Spain. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It was the most party vibe I've ever seen. It was just people enjoying themselves out in the streets. It was kind of a cool contrast from the way you normally think about rush hour traffic on a Friday, where you just see misery and pain and everyone hates it,” said Fresco. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryann Blackwell, 73, said she has been car-free for six years. \u003c/span>“Going to Critical Mass is just what it sounds like. A lot of people riding bikes with no particular rules. We just take over the streets. We take back the streets to the people,” said Blackwell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927476\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11927476\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58901_DSC07975-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in her seventies wearing a helmet, glasses, red long-sleeve sweater and a jean vest waves at the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58901_DSC07975-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58901_DSC07975-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58901_DSC07975-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58901_DSC07975-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58901_DSC07975-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SF resident Maryann Blackwell, 73, said she has been car-free for six years. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alena Kuczynsk, 34, said the ride is empowering. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Critical mass just feels like you're a part of a solid unbreakable mass of bikes. You feel powerful and part of community,” said Kuczynsk.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927478\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11927478 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58929_R0005550-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two women in their 30s pose for the camera in front of a blue bike, one woman is wearing a red jacket, the other a green one with patterns, both are smiling.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58929_R0005550-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58929_R0005550-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58929_R0005550-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58929_R0005550-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58929_R0005550-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alena Kuczynski, 34, of San Francisco (left) and her friend get ready to ride out. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That community has changed over the years. Original rider Chris \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carlsson acknowledges the bike scene in San Francisco isn’t what it once was when Critical Mass began. Back then, bicycling was a scrappy subculture that was fighting for its right to a place at the transportation table. These days, as the bicycle coalition has transformed into a political advocacy machine — and as commuting by bicycle has become sensible, not suicidal — Critical Mass in San Francisco feels different.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Events these days draw nowhere near the thousands of cyclists that swelled city streets and blocked intersections in years past. But Carlsson is hopeful that Critical Mass can be repurposed for the pressing issues of today. He says it's a tactic that is available to people to use for a purpose, to use for a mission, if they have one.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It's in the DNA of the culture here. Everybody knows how to do Critical Mass,” said Carlsson. “When the George Floyd moment was upon us back in 2020, there was a mass bike ride. They called it a ‘Critical Mass for George Floyd,’ and 3,000 people showed up. It did everything that Critical Mass ever could do.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927479\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11927479\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58895_DSC00060-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man in his 60s with a trimmed white beard wearing a black cap and a black hoodie smiles as he looks away from the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58895_DSC00060-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58895_DSC00060-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58895_DSC00060-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58895_DSC00060-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58895_DSC00060-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Carlsson, 65, is an original Critical Mass participant. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Around 6:30 p.m., the bikes started leaving the plaza and rolling down the Embarcadero as a pink-hued sunset flooded the sky behind the Bay Bridge. Some cyclists stood in front of cars in intersections, blocking traffic as a steady stream of cyclists rolled past. Giants fans walking to an evening baseball game stopped and stared. Drivers put their heads in their hands. But from the perspective of a bicycle seat, a San Franciscan tradition was taking place. It’s something Chris Carlsson calls “the euphoria of the experience.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Once you're in the streets and you're filling the streets with bicycles and the sound of spinning wheels and tinkling bells and conversation, it just radically alters your imagination about what cities could be.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Hundreds turned out to Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco on Friday for Critical Mass, which has been held for 30 consecutive years since 1992 and has since spread to over 400 cities.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1665679488,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1606},"headData":{"title":"'A Leaderless Phenomenon': Critical Mass Celebrates 30th Anniversary | KQED","description":"Hundreds turned out to Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco on Friday for Critical Mass, which has been held for 30 consecutive years since 1992 and has since spread to over 400 cities.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'A Leaderless Phenomenon': Critical Mass Celebrates 30th Anniversary","datePublished":"2022-10-02T00:49:19.000Z","dateModified":"2022-10-13T16:44:48.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11927460 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11927460","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/10/01/a-leaderless-phenomenon-critical-mass-celebrates-30th-anniversary/","disqusTitle":"'A Leaderless Phenomenon': Critical Mass Celebrates 30th Anniversary","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/b0202c88-844e-4a5c-bd61-af2300063d53/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11927460/a-leaderless-phenomenon-critical-mass-celebrates-30th-anniversary","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At least 400 people turned out to Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco on Friday evening to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the cycling event known as Critical Mass. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At its simplest, Critical Mass is a group bicycle ride. But it has also been called an “organized coincidence” or a “leaderless phenomenon.” That’s because for the last 30 years, on the last Friday of every month, hundreds and sometimes thousands of cyclists have participated in a ride that has no leadership, organization or planned route to speak of. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927466\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11927466\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2968-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A group of older people pose for a group photo with waving and smiling and buildings in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2968-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2968-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2968-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2968-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2968-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/IMG_2968-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early Critical Mass riders. From left, Justin Fraser, Amandeep Jawa, Larry Chin, Anna Sojourner, Glenn Bachman, Will Rostov, Chris Carlsson, LisaRuth Elliot, Hugh D’Andrade, Steven Black, Russell Howze, Steve Jones, Quintin Mecke, and Nancy Botkin. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hugh D'Andrade)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Originally called the “Commute Clot,” the ride began in September 1992 when a group of about 50 friends decided to ride home together after work on a Friday. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Why don't we just get together at the end of the day and ride home together as a way of promoting our own collective experience of bicycling in extremely hostile conditions?” said Chris Carlsson, one of the cyclists who participated in the original ride.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927467\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11927467\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58935_R0005630-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Dozens of people on bicycles ride their bikes with the Ferry Building clock tower in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58935_R0005630-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58935_R0005630-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58935_R0005630-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58935_R0005630-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58935_R0005630-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ride began at 6:30 p.m. on Friday as hundreds of cyclists rode out from the Embarcadero. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cycling in San Francisco in the early 90s was a far cry from the protected bike lanes and hordes of bicycle commuters found on city streets today. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We were so angry because you weren't allowed to bicycle in San Francisco in the early 90s. I mean, you certainly could do it, it was legal, but you were taking your life into your own hands.” said Dave Snyder, another cyclist who participated in the original ride. “It was our way of collectively asserting our rights.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927468\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11927468 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/CM_visionary-800x317.jpg\" alt='A black-and-white illustration of people riding bikes with the words \"Critical Mass: Visionary Traffic Jams Since 1992\" written at the bottom' width=\"800\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/CM_visionary-800x317.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/CM_visionary-1020x404.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/CM_visionary-160x63.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/CM_visionary-1536x608.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/CM_visionary-2048x811.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/CM_visionary-1920x760.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Critical Mass Flyer from 2002 by Hugh D’Andrade, Courtesy of Hugh D'Andrade\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the years, the ride gained popularity in San Francisco. Snyder estimates that over 5,000 people attended a Critical Mass ride in 1996. The ride also spread to other cities. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“When it started to spread to other cities right away, we knew that it was something much bigger than we had initially intended,” said Hugh D’Andrade, another original Critical Mass rider. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927469\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11927469\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58916_DSC08062-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a white shirt and a woman in a red shirt with helmets and riding bikes, smile with other cyclists around them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58916_DSC08062-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58916_DSC08062-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58916_DSC08062-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58916_DSC08062-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58916_DSC08062-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Critical Mass has become an international event that has spread to hundreds of cities worldwide. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chris Carlsson estimates that Critical Mass events now take place in over 400 cities across the world.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As Critical Mass grew, so did the attention it got from local politicians. In 1997, then-Mayor Willie Brown famously \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/NEWS-ANALYSIS-Bike-Fiasco-Points-Up-S-F-2831483.php\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ordered the police\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to crack down on the event after thousands of cyclists snarled traffic in city streets.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927470\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11927470 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/CM20-poster-2-multi-flat-160x316.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/CM20-poster-2-multi-flat-160x316.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/CM20-poster-2-multi-flat.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Critical Mass Poster from 2012 by Hugh D’Andrade, Courtesy of Hugh D'Andrade\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dave Snyder, who was executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition at the time, said this moment in Critical Mass’ history produced an inflection point where membership in the Bicycle Coalition soared, and politicians realized they needed to heed calls for better bicycle infrastructure in the city. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“That was when the city had to take seriously what the Bicycle Coalition had been asking it to do for a long time,” said Snyder. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It was really interesting when Willie Brown cracked down on Critical Mass. It just caused all the bicyclists to come out in support of our movement. Thanks Willie Brown,” said Hugh D’Andrade.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Critical Mass has received criticism over the years for instances where participants have acted aggressively and violently toward \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-critical-mass-bicyclist-conviction-san-francisco-assault-20160627-snap-story.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">motorists\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Cyclist Chris Carlsson says these people are a minority, and characterizes them as the “testosterone brigade.” He says it’s the same bad apples that are present at any public event, but it isn’t what the ride was intended to be, and it’s something the original riders say they fought against in the early years.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Once you're in the streets and you're filling the streets with bicycles and the sound of spinning wheels and tinkling bells and conversation, it just radically alters your imagination about what cities could be.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"large","align":"right","citation":"Chris Carlsson, original Critical Mass rider","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“In the early days of Critical Mass, we would put a lot of energy into circulating flyers and sort of arguing against that perspective and saying, ‘Hey, that's not really what it's about. We're all about being inclusive. We want to invite people out of their cars to join us.’” said Hugh D’Andrade. “And that took a lot of energy. And, over time, we stopped doing that as much.“\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927471\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11927471 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58933_R0005571-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in her late 30s holds her 10-year-old son and stands next to another woman in her 20s ass they smile at the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58933_R0005571-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58933_R0005571-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58933_R0005571-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58933_R0005571-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58933_R0005571-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SF residents Silver Koester, 10, and her mother Lyndsey Hawkins (center), enjoyed the ride. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">D’Andrade himself said, prior to Friday’s anniversary, he hadn’t participated in Critical Mass for a decade. He said he stopped going in 2012 because he felt that the ride had become more dominated by “very loud men yelling.” He said he didn’t feel like it was his scene anymore. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It's always been a leaderless phenomenon, and it's for everybody to shape it as they see fit. I would like to see more women, more people of color, more people with a friendly, inviting attitude coming out to join critical mass.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927472\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11927472 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58928_R0005516-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two men leaning on their bikes have a chat, one has long hair, the other is wearing a red bandana, both are in the early 20s.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58928_R0005516-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58928_R0005516-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58928_R0005516-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58928_R0005516-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58928_R0005516-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Critical Mass has been variously described as '\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">organized coincidence,' a 'leaderless phenomenon,' and a 'visionary traffic jam' over the last three decades.\u003c/span> \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The mood was celebratory on Friday as cyclists riding decorated bikes wearing costumes waited for the 30th anniversary ride to begin. Oakland resident Slim Buick, 55, has been riding with Critical Mass since the mid-90s, and arrived on a custom bicycle constructed of a playground-style spring horse mounted to a BMX bike. His favorite thing about attending? “Meeting people and just riding around.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927475\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11927475\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58904_DSC07998-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man with a wide-brimmed hat, sunglasses, and a suit stands in front of his custom bicycle constructed of a playground-style spring horse mounted to a BMX bike.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58904_DSC07998-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58904_DSC07998-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58904_DSC07998-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58904_DSC07998-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58904_DSC07998-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland resident Slim Buick, 55, arrived on a custom bicycle constructed of a playground-style spring horse mounted to a BMX bike. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elai Fresco, 30, said the first time he saw Critical Mass was in Madrid, Spain. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It was the most party vibe I've ever seen. It was just people enjoying themselves out in the streets. It was kind of a cool contrast from the way you normally think about rush hour traffic on a Friday, where you just see misery and pain and everyone hates it,” said Fresco. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryann Blackwell, 73, said she has been car-free for six years. \u003c/span>“Going to Critical Mass is just what it sounds like. A lot of people riding bikes with no particular rules. We just take over the streets. We take back the streets to the people,” said Blackwell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927476\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11927476\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58901_DSC07975-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in her seventies wearing a helmet, glasses, red long-sleeve sweater and a jean vest waves at the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58901_DSC07975-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58901_DSC07975-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58901_DSC07975-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58901_DSC07975-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58901_DSC07975-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SF resident Maryann Blackwell, 73, said she has been car-free for six years. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alena Kuczynsk, 34, said the ride is empowering. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Critical mass just feels like you're a part of a solid unbreakable mass of bikes. You feel powerful and part of community,” said Kuczynsk.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927478\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11927478 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58929_R0005550-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two women in their 30s pose for the camera in front of a blue bike, one woman is wearing a red jacket, the other a green one with patterns, both are smiling.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58929_R0005550-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58929_R0005550-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58929_R0005550-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58929_R0005550-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58929_R0005550-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alena Kuczynski, 34, of San Francisco (left) and her friend get ready to ride out. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That community has changed over the years. Original rider Chris \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carlsson acknowledges the bike scene in San Francisco isn’t what it once was when Critical Mass began. Back then, bicycling was a scrappy subculture that was fighting for its right to a place at the transportation table. These days, as the bicycle coalition has transformed into a political advocacy machine — and as commuting by bicycle has become sensible, not suicidal — Critical Mass in San Francisco feels different.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Events these days draw nowhere near the thousands of cyclists that swelled city streets and blocked intersections in years past. But Carlsson is hopeful that Critical Mass can be repurposed for the pressing issues of today. He says it's a tactic that is available to people to use for a purpose, to use for a mission, if they have one.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It's in the DNA of the culture here. Everybody knows how to do Critical Mass,” said Carlsson. “When the George Floyd moment was upon us back in 2020, there was a mass bike ride. They called it a ‘Critical Mass for George Floyd,’ and 3,000 people showed up. It did everything that Critical Mass ever could do.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927479\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11927479\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58895_DSC00060-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man in his 60s with a trimmed white beard wearing a black cap and a black hoodie smiles as he looks away from the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58895_DSC00060-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58895_DSC00060-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58895_DSC00060-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58895_DSC00060-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS58895_DSC00060-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Carlsson, 65, is an original Critical Mass participant. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Around 6:30 p.m., the bikes started leaving the plaza and rolling down the Embarcadero as a pink-hued sunset flooded the sky behind the Bay Bridge. Some cyclists stood in front of cars in intersections, blocking traffic as a steady stream of cyclists rolled past. Giants fans walking to an evening baseball game stopped and stared. Drivers put their heads in their hands. But from the perspective of a bicycle seat, a San Franciscan tradition was taking place. It’s something Chris Carlsson calls “the euphoria of the experience.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Once you're in the streets and you're filling the streets with bicycles and the sound of spinning wheels and tinkling bells and conversation, it just radically alters your imagination about what cities could be.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11927460/a-leaderless-phenomenon-critical-mass-celebrates-30th-anniversary","authors":["11785"],"categories":["news_223","news_8"],"tags":["news_31727","news_31729","news_31728","news_31730","news_2851","news_3233"],"featImg":"news_11927482","label":"news"},"news_77104":{"type":"posts","id":"news_77104","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"77104","score":null,"sort":[1349134943000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"men-in-drag-uppity-women-an-sf-bike-protest-cycles-around","title":"Men in Drag, Uppity Women: A 116-Year-Old SF Bike Protest History Cycles Around ","publishDate":1349134943,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>When thousands of bicyclists took to the streets of San Francisco Friday night, they had more history to celebrate than most of them knew. The mood remained mostly festive throughout the evening, but organizers said they wanted to make a statement -- much as they did 20 years ago, in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2012/09/27/108432/a_city_cycling_ritual_critical_mass_turns_20?category=bay+area\">Critical Mass ride of 1992\u003c/a>, and 96 years before that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77248\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/critical-mass-20122.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-77248\" title=\"critical mass 2012\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/critical-mass-20122-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sample of the color in the Critical Mass ride of 2012 (Cristiano Valli)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That's right, bicycle protests have been going on in San Francisco approximately since the origin of the bicycle. And as Hank Chapot recalled in \u003ca href=\"http://processedworld.com/Issues/issue2001/pw2001_64-68_Great_Bicycle_Protest_of_1896.pdf\">Processed World\u003c/a> magazine, the barely remembered protest of July 25, 1896 may be been the most important. So we thought it would be helpful to draw a brief comparison of last weekend's event, and the one that started it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reasons for Protesting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1896:\u003c/strong> Bicyclists (wheelmen as they were called then) wanted improvements to city streets. The biggest concern then was that Market Street was poorly paved, and most other streets had no pavement at all. Bicyclists also complained about getting their wheels caught in streetcar tracks and cable car slots.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nThe San Francisco Call newspaper reported on the great bicycle rally of 1896.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca title=\"View Sf.call.Jul26.1896a on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/98670890/Sf-call-Jul26-1896a\">Sf.call.Jul26.1896a\u003c/a>\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.scribd.com/embeds/98670890/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-1gfo5e7io0i8c3btu5aw\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2012:\u003c/strong> Bicyclists still want improvements to city streets, particularly Market Street. Pavement is taken for granted, but bicyclists are still \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/03/06/bicyclist-seriously-injured-after-crash-with-sf-muni-bus/\">getting their wheels caught\u003c/a> in streetcar tracks, sometimes with deadly results. The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition advocates a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbike.org/?market\">separate path for bicycles\u003c/a>, physically separated from motor vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Participants\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1896\u003c/strong>: Wheelmen and wheelwomen came from all over the Bay Area, many of them members of bicycle clubs, such as The Bay City Wheelmen and the YMCA Cyclers. The umbrella organization nationwide was the well-organized League of American Wheelmen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2012:\u003c/strong> Bicyclists came from all over the Bay Area. Though Critical Mass has no official leader, it does have a\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcriticalmass.org/\"> website\u003c/a>. Organizations like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbike.org/\">San Francisco Bicycle Coalition \u003c/a>have helped represent concerns of cyclists to the city government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Atmosphere\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>1896\u003c/strong>: Drawing on archival newspaper reports, Chapot described the crowd this way:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A few men rode in drag, one “in the togs of a Midway Plaisance maiden,” another as an old maid. Uncle Sam rode in bloomers next to a down-home hayseed.There were meaner\u003cbr>\nstereotypes: Sitting Bull and Pocahontas; a man in bloomers mocking “the new women;” one in blackface; one “imitating a Chinese in silks and slippers.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>There were also a good number of women, in bloomers, defying the dress code of the day. The parade ended in rallies with bonfires and political speeches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2012\u003c/strong>: Friday night's ride included at least one naked man, masks, face paint, trailers, double bikes welded on top of each other and many other colorful costumes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Conflict\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1896:\u003c/strong> The big enemy in those days were the streetcars. The crowd threw blocks of wood at streetcars trapped in the mass of riders, smashing their windows, and rocked the vehicles back and forth trying to overturn them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2012:\u003c/strong> Riders gleefully snarled traffic downtown for several hours. Still, the atmosphere remained calm compared to some of the monthly Critical Mass rides of the 1990s, particularly \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflicts_involving_Critical_Mass\">1997 \u003c/a>when cyclists were accused of denting, scratching and smashing the windows of various motorized vehicles, and motorists were accused of intentionally running into riders.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Impact\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1896\u003c/strong>: Market Street, and the rest of San Francisco, eventually got asphalt, literally paving the way for the motor vehicles that have since become bicyclists primary competitors for space on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2012:\u003c/strong> Bicycle activists are still arguing about the role that Critical Mass has played in getting more bike lanes and other bike-friendly additions to San Francisco streets. The ride on Friday was mostly commemorative, but it generated a lot of enthusiasm for renewed activism.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1349153118,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":637},"headData":{"title":"Men in Drag, Uppity Women: A 116-Year-Old SF Bike Protest History Cycles Around | KQED","description":"When thousands of bicyclists took to the streets of San Francisco Friday night, they had more history to celebrate than most of them knew. 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The mood remained mostly festive throughout the evening, but organizers said they wanted to make a statement -- much as they did 20 years ago, in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2012/09/27/108432/a_city_cycling_ritual_critical_mass_turns_20?category=bay+area\">Critical Mass ride of 1992\u003c/a>, and 96 years before that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77248\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/critical-mass-20122.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-77248\" title=\"critical mass 2012\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/critical-mass-20122-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sample of the color in the Critical Mass ride of 2012 (Cristiano Valli)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That's right, bicycle protests have been going on in San Francisco approximately since the origin of the bicycle. And as Hank Chapot recalled in \u003ca href=\"http://processedworld.com/Issues/issue2001/pw2001_64-68_Great_Bicycle_Protest_of_1896.pdf\">Processed World\u003c/a> magazine, the barely remembered protest of July 25, 1896 may be been the most important. So we thought it would be helpful to draw a brief comparison of last weekend's event, and the one that started it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reasons for Protesting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1896:\u003c/strong> Bicyclists (wheelmen as they were called then) wanted improvements to city streets. The biggest concern then was that Market Street was poorly paved, and most other streets had no pavement at all. Bicyclists also complained about getting their wheels caught in streetcar tracks and cable car slots.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nThe San Francisco Call newspaper reported on the great bicycle rally of 1896.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca title=\"View Sf.call.Jul26.1896a on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/98670890/Sf-call-Jul26-1896a\">Sf.call.Jul26.1896a\u003c/a>\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.scribd.com/embeds/98670890/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-1gfo5e7io0i8c3btu5aw\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2012:\u003c/strong> Bicyclists still want improvements to city streets, particularly Market Street. Pavement is taken for granted, but bicyclists are still \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/03/06/bicyclist-seriously-injured-after-crash-with-sf-muni-bus/\">getting their wheels caught\u003c/a> in streetcar tracks, sometimes with deadly results. The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition advocates a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbike.org/?market\">separate path for bicycles\u003c/a>, physically separated from motor vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Participants\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1896\u003c/strong>: Wheelmen and wheelwomen came from all over the Bay Area, many of them members of bicycle clubs, such as The Bay City Wheelmen and the YMCA Cyclers. The umbrella organization nationwide was the well-organized League of American Wheelmen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2012:\u003c/strong> Bicyclists came from all over the Bay Area. Though Critical Mass has no official leader, it does have a\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcriticalmass.org/\"> website\u003c/a>. Organizations like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbike.org/\">San Francisco Bicycle Coalition \u003c/a>have helped represent concerns of cyclists to the city government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Atmosphere\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>1896\u003c/strong>: Drawing on archival newspaper reports, Chapot described the crowd this way:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A few men rode in drag, one “in the togs of a Midway Plaisance maiden,” another as an old maid. Uncle Sam rode in bloomers next to a down-home hayseed.There were meaner\u003cbr>\nstereotypes: Sitting Bull and Pocahontas; a man in bloomers mocking “the new women;” one in blackface; one “imitating a Chinese in silks and slippers.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>There were also a good number of women, in bloomers, defying the dress code of the day. The parade ended in rallies with bonfires and political speeches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2012\u003c/strong>: Friday night's ride included at least one naked man, masks, face paint, trailers, double bikes welded on top of each other and many other colorful costumes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Conflict\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1896:\u003c/strong> The big enemy in those days were the streetcars. The crowd threw blocks of wood at streetcars trapped in the mass of riders, smashing their windows, and rocked the vehicles back and forth trying to overturn them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2012:\u003c/strong> Riders gleefully snarled traffic downtown for several hours. 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