Birmingham Critical Mass

The Birmingham Critical Mass ride was tonight starting from Lynn park. About 19 people showed up and we zig zagged around downtown, up to 5 points, around Highland Ave, and up into Forest Park. It's a great event and I hope it starts to grow. For anyone who doesn't know about it, you can check it out by googling critical mass. There are a bunch of different sites, I'm not sure there is actually an "official" one. The Birmingham ride has a facebook page (critical mass Birmingham) so you can check that out to, I posted some pictures from the ride there. I almost didn't make to the ride, due to a blow out on Richard Arrington Blvd at Lunch time. I didn't have an extra tube or patch kit or anything so it took a bunch of running around to get it fixed I was particularly filthy from changing the tire, but I got it done and made it. On the way to the ride I passed Dee and her mom sitting outside Our Place having margaritas, so I stopped and had a beer with them before heading to Lynn park. The whole ride lasted an hour or so. The group started dwindling almost from the start until there were just four of us left. There was talk of going to the Bottletree or Little Savannah for beer, which sounded good, but I had to split. I really like the idea of this thing growing into a much bigger group and invading some bar at the end of the ride. We'll see.