Critical Mass is a monthly bicycle ride to celebrate cycling and to assert cyclists' right to the road. It's an organized coincidence that allows cyclists, skaters, roller bladers, etc. to loudly declare our existence through our mass presence. It's a demonstration of autonomy over automobiles.

Critical Mass has a different flavor from city to city -- there's a big variety in size, respect for traffic laws (or lack thereof), interaction with motorists, and intervention by police. So if you want to know more about Critical Mass, you'll really need to find out what your local ride is like.

Critical Mass has no leaders, and no central organization licenses rides. In every city that has a CM ride, some locals simply picked a date, time, and location for the ride and publicized it, and thus the ride was born.

CM is an idea and an event, not an organization.

Critical Mass is a monthly bicycle ride to celebrate cycling and to assert cyclists' right to the road. It's an organized coincidence that allows cyclists, skaters, roller bladers, etc. to loudly declare our existence through our mass presence. It's a demonstration of autonomy over automobiles.

Critical Mass has a different flavor from city to city -- there's a big variety in size, respect for traffic laws (or lack thereof), interaction with motorists, and intervention by police. So if you want to know more about Critical Mass, you'll really need to find out what your local ride is like.

Critical Mass has no leaders, and no central organization licenses rides. In every city that has a CM ride, some locals simply picked a date, time, and location for the ride and publicized it, and thus the ride was born.

CM is an idea and an event, not an organization.