Map of Route to Chilliwack CM

Here are PDF maps of the route we plan to take to get to the Freyman Farm in Chilliwack tommorrow, Tommorrow {Thursday}. To Ride in Fridays Chilliwack Critical Mass Memorial Ride.

• http://www.bikesexual.org/temp/chillimapSide1.pdf

• http://www.bikesexual.org/temp/chillimapSide2.pdf

Here is the route that we plan to take to get to chilliwack.
the Central Valley Greenway (Nanaimo to Grandview Hwy, Slocan, 12 Av E, Hebb, to Lillooet, onto the railroad right of way, Gilmore, Still Creek Drive, Still Creek Ave, Douglas, Goring, Lougheed, Winston, Government, Cariboo Rd, Cariboo Place, Brunette River trail, North Rd, path through Huyme Park to Braid Station, Braid Street, over the Bailey Bridge to United Boulevard, then along to MarryHill Bypass, beside MaryHill to Shaughessy, to the trail parralel to Mary Hill Bypass, (note that we will stop at the Gillnetter Pub for lunch at 1864 Argue Street) to the Pitt River Dyke to Pitt River Bridge, then Dewdney Trunk Rd, Harris, Lougheed, 207, River Rd, Haney Bypass, Lougheed, Abbotsford Mission Highway, Sumas Way, South Parallel Road, No 3 rd, Interprovincial Hwy, No2 Road, Keith Wilson, Vedder, Promontory, Chilliwack, Bailey, Prest, Chilliwack central, Banford, Yale, Armstrong.

RIDE TO CHILLIWACK FOR CRITICAL MASS!

Friday, July 1st
[First Friday Of The Month]
11am, 5 Corners, Downtown Chilliwack
Inaugural Chilliwack Mass Ride And Roll
Stan Freyman Memorial Ride On Canada Day Fun

Ride To Chilliwack From Vancouver:

Gather At 8am, For 9am Departure Breakfast
At Bons Restaurant (Broadway At Nanaimo)
Thursday, June 30th

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SOME OF US WILL RIDE ALL THE WAY from vancouver to chilliwack on thursday june 30th. this 100km ride will be no tea party - but tea will be served - over the course of the ~8hr ride. *note* that a support fossil burning dinosaur pace car will be able to pack some of your gear {the ride meeting place will be bons restaurant, NOT trout lake as previously announced}

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for those who don't want to ride all the way to chilliwack, you can take skytrain as far as braid station, the westcoastexpress in the evening as far as
mission, or the #701 bus to maple ridge and ride the rest of the way.
greyhound buses also travel to chilliwack and they'll carry your
bike {for $$$ 604-482-8747}

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RIDERS headed out to chilliwack are welcome to camp at the freyman's farm, 5 acres just outside of chilliwack {9670 armstrong}. we will provide food and drink on the evening of the 30th - otherwise folks are on their own {self sufficient camping with access to shower and a toilet}

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ON FRIDAY, we will gather at 11 am in chilliwack. we'll meet at the 5-corners downtown, the intersection of young and yale, in front of the courthouse clock. we'll ride through the town! after the ride people are welcome to remain at the farm for the rest of the weekend and to hike, swim, canoe and hang around.

This first ride is in honour of STAN FREYMAN, a local Chilliwack resident who passed away in January. Stan was an inspiration to all self-propelled travellers. After he retired, Stan became concerned about global climate change and made changes to his lifestyle. He sold his s.u.v. and bought a more fuel efficient car, rode his bike all over Chilliwack and took the bus for long trips. He dreamed of a Chilliwack critical mass ride. Stan was living proof that it is never too late to change. With this ride we honour his commitment to life long learning and his efforts to improve the world in simple and practical ways
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please be sure to RSVP for the Vancouver Ride: o wackmass@@@@gmail.com
8 OR phone Liz at 604! 873-->3877

older story with poster: http://vancouvercm.blogspot.com/2005/05/chilliwack-critical-mass-july-1st.html

Many More Pictures

Here are many more photo links that people have posted in the comments of previous entries.

• Flickr has images that can be viewed as a slideshow and many catagorised as vancouver critical mass

• 'clubtread' A discussion forum and some pictures also.

[Amusing to read the perspectives of car drivers. Some driver says that the environmentalism of CM makes sense but not the public space issues... 1... 2... 3... Yes Mr cooped up genius driver man, Public Space is the environment we share. There is a theoretical global environment that we can talk big about and there is a real local space, that gutter the cyclists get designated to ride in... Escape your cage and feel the world with your feet, you'll notice that cars are not a benign environmental presense in the concrete local world]

• Photos and commentary from the guy that gives out the free recycled batteries!

• Apparently there is even a Flickr Vancouver Critical Mass pool or group of photos! I think they will host your photos for free so take advantage, maybe we need a more permanent link there.

• There are even other Vancouver bike photos like Sailor's Pedal Tank at the Commercial Drive Chopper Fest/Street Party! Many photos by 'Doviende'

  

• Tony Proudfoots Photos
  

• davids photo website link again just so all the picture links are in one place

[If you have any more photo links post them in this thead -Thanks]

Record Breaking Ride Attracts 2400 +5 Wheels

Record Breaking Ride Attracts Over 1200

VANCOUVER -- June 25, 2005 -- History was made yesterday in Vancouver as cyclists took to the streets in the largest numbers yet.

In celebration of Bike Month, bicycle advocates called for 2000 + 5 wheels, and handily topped their target by pulling over 1200 people to the event as cyclists joined the rolling mass of bicycles, skate boarders, and in-line skaters.

"What's going on?" shouts one driver in a red Passat. A pamphlet volunteer swings over on his bike, handing off a handbill explaining the ride and how to "cork" -- a way of safely blocking car traffic from entering the mass of bicycles, boarders, and skaters.

Bike Month is coming to a close in Vancouver, and cyclists marked the bike-event-filled month in style. Starting 6 PM at the Vancouver Art Gallery, the celebratory ride spontaneously crossed the Granville and Burrard Street bridges, and snaked through the city, starting conversations. An important Burrard Street Bridge modification finally goes to Vancouver City Council on June 28.

"This is the best ride ever," stated a jubilant Steve Kisby, one of the many promoters of the ride. "Last year we had over 800 riders. With the forecast calling for rain, I thought we might just maintain our numbers. The increase is just amazing," he continued.

Cycling has been gaining momentum as an alternative to transit and operating a motor vehicle. As bicycles enter a new state of cool and shades of hot for the summer, the requisite elements seemed to come together to present the beginnings of an irrefutable "critical mass" in support of bicycle transportation.

"I met people from Melbourne, I met people from Portland, I met people from BC's Interior coming down for the ride," said Bev Canuel. "All these people are coming to Vancouver to enjoy this beautiful city and bicycling together. If they're coming from other places they need to stay somewhere and eat. That has to be good for tourism," Canuel continued.

The ride is part of a series of rides that occur the last Friday of every month, called Critical Mass, that winds through the streets of Vancouver encouraging motorists to abandon their cars for clean air. Critical Mass is a grassroots reclamation of public space which allows cyclists and other self-propelled people to move safely and comfortably through the streets of Vancouver in a car-free space. The motto: "We're Not Blocking Traffic -- We ARE Traffic!"

Critical Mass was born in San Francisco in 1992, and quickly spread to other cities worldwide. Now over 300 cities boast monthly rides. Attendance at Vancouver Critical Mass has been increasing steadily, with recent rides averaging 300 participants. The next ride is July 29.

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For more information:
Amy Walker, 604-255-9689, amyrides@@ @@telus.net
Bev Canuel, 604-322-9317, bcanuel@@ @@shaw.ca
Steve Kisby, 604-323-0204, 604-645-2099, skisby@@ @@web.net

• The handout for the ride that explains Critical Mass and corking
  
• Information on Bike Month
  
• Worldwide details may be found at:
  http://www.criticalmasshub.com or http://www.critical-mass.org

God says: Ye Shall Mass Astride 2 Wheels

^^^Click on this image to link with printable jpg flyer that has more details of the church bike event.

Strange but true: This Friday's Critical Mass is supported by none other than *Jesus* himself! Or, more accurately, a group of bicycle loving Anglicans and Lutherans - who like to ride Critical Mass - will combine their work with their play in order to "bless" the riders and their bicycles [or skates I assume]. If you want to take part be early at 5pm at Christ Church Cathedral, 690 Burrard St [only one block from Art Gallery CM meeting spot]. I've heard there will be 'holy' chain oil given out! Today's ride will be a blast with very diverse groups of self propelled people all riding together from the Art Gallery leaving 6pm.

4 more posters for friday

I've made 4 more posters for the June 24 [friday] 2005 wheels critical mass. Velolove email is still down and will be until after the ride because we have to move servers so please tell people you know yourself, bring all your friend! Print these posters and plaster the city. We can do it! The last few days before the ride are the best time to invite people anyway so if people make a big effort this week we can really have 2000 wheels on friday! And it is supposed to be sunny and warm. And there is going to be new choppers and the mobile, pedal powered dance machine sound system, improved since last year.

More details about the ride for new massers in the older blog entries below, there are also 3 other amazing poster designs at the bottom of that entry by bev and david.

Print and Propagate! Feel free to modify,
YOU are the Critical Mass organiser:

	these top 2 are meant to be printed on 11x17 paper and then cut in half lengthwise.
this is for 8.5x11 normal size paper	This is 8.5x11 cut into quarters

^^^Click on the pictures to link with large 300-400dpi
PDF format image [for your printer]
You need something like Adobe Acrobat to view and print which you can download free.

Like last year, it will probably be too big a crowd for everyone at the beginning of the ride to hear the announcements from a megaphone. So, I've re-done the 'CMrules' [there are no rules] flyer I made last year which explains the ride for new people. I made it into a PDF which you can print out into a quarter size sheet handbill. [Don't forget to photocopy doublesided reverse so both sides information is there] Of course, the announcements are open to everyone and xerocracy flyers also, so please make your own non-rules up, print, distribute. Here are the text files that I used: 1 and 2

June 24 is the 2000+5 Wheels Ride!

Hey Everybody,
[velolove list is still not working!]

It's only a few more days until the Gigantic 2000+5 Wheels Critical Mass Bike Ride. The Grande Finale Street Party Rolling Celebration end of June Bike Month. The idea is to have about 1000 riders [x2 wheels per bike] or 667 tricyclists or 250 rollerbladers... or any combination thereof. Here is a few pictures from last year.

As usual the details are:
Last Friday of the Month, June 24th 2005
Meet at Vancouver Art Gallery anytime after 5pm
Departure around 6pm
Riding around the city for fun, and our future
Everybody welcomed, FREE

Bring a bike, skate, wheelchair, rollercouch, trike, unicycle... jog if you are energetic. Dress up and bring bells, whistles, music systems - everything to make it more FUN

Full details on the website.

This is probably the least pre-organised/promoted Giant June Critical Mass so far. The idea started in 2003 and back then it was called the 1000 wheels ride because we were hoping for 500 riders/skaters to show up. Before then the biggest monthly Vancouver Critical Mass ride was about 2-300 people. We totally surpassed that amount that year and about 800 people showed up. Last year we called it the 2000+4 Wheels Ride hoping for 1002 in attendance. It rained last year, and people being people, we didn't quite have 1000 people riding but it sure was fun anyway with 800 people again - in the RAIN! [and technically we counted 2004 wheels because of all the many wheeled skateboards and rollerskates].

So this year, can we do it? Can we get 1000 riders. If the weather co-operates then for sure! If you tell all your friends that it is not to be missed and they tell their friends. There is less promotion this year but then it is starting to have some momentum of its own. Critical Mass is the theory and the name. Word of mouth is the surest method of communication their is - slow and steady - we bypass the corporate controlled media to tell other cyclists who share this city one-on-one! No one is in charge so we are all in charge, lets take care of each other and make this happen.

One day we won't have to organise special rides because Critical Mass will be everyday and cycling for transportation and fun will be safe and comfortable in our city. Imagine such sanity!?! The only traffic jam is a pleasant chance to talk to your neighbour. A world without everyone boxed it. A sky which is thanking us. We can do it, we are strong in one another. We don't block traffic, because we are traffic: Every year it is more and more true. 'Tis the waning of the age of automobiles and the dawning of the age of human powered FREEDOM in the most real sense of the word.

XOXO take care and take the lane,
vancouver bicycle tricksters

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Please Post a Notice about the ride and be sure to show your friends:
There are 2 poster designs made so far.

#1 David has made a lovely poster which you can
Download from his website here.

#2 Bev has redone an old favourite poster in two formats,
a full 8.5x11 sheet, and a quarter sheet handbill layout.

#3 New posters by Rusl

Print and Propagate! Feel free to modify,
YOU are the Critical Mass organiser:

^^^Click on this image to link with a
printable PDF document. You need something like
Adobe Acrobat to view and print which you can download free.
download the Quarter Page Handbill version Here.

There are many many old posters on the CM website [the date is old, or the email address out of date] that you can cut and paste to make your own design, or draw your own. If you send them to us we will post them here for others to download and print. [please email before sending, create in PDF format ideally]

For more information email: spam@@ @@bikesexual.. ..org

-OR- bcanuel@@ @@shaw.. ..ca
(The extra "@" and "..." is to deter junkmail)

Velolove Announcements: Bike Month Rides, Parties, and Festivals

Velolove Announcements!

1. Bike Month is here!
2. MC3 Ride
3. World Naked Bike Ride
4. MAXeMOM Party
5. MOMENTUM Post Natal Meeting
6. Car-Free Commercial Drive Festival
7. Notorious EastVan Chopper Festival
8. June Critical Mass: 2000+5 Wheel Ride
9. July 1 Ride To Chilliwack

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Bike Month is here!!!

Check out the online Bike Month Calendar at:
http://calendar.best.bc.ca

To submit an entry to the calendar go to http://calendar.best.bc.ca/edit_entry.php or click on the plus sign on the day you want to add the event. It's a moderated calendar so events will not be displayed until they are approved which could take a couple of days.

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Friday, June 10

Margaret Charles Chopper Collective (MC3) Ride

Vancouver's freak art bike collective invites you to take a ride with this post-apocolypitic gang of velomutation riders starting at 6:30pm at the Science World gazebo, 1455 Quebec St, and featuring new choppers built at PedelPlay's boneyard. ALL WELCOME

http://www.mcthree.ca

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Saturday, June 11

The World Naked Bike, the craziest and most fun'est of all the events on the planet earth will be happening June 11th. Naked and colour clad cyclists will be challenging conformity in cities across the World.
Amsterdam, Victoria, Vancouver, Toronto, Chicago, San Francisco, Paris, London, Spain, Montreal, Belgium and countless others will be streaking through news headlines and making life on this planet a lot more colourful.

The World Naked Bike ride is a protest against car culture. It's time to put a stop to the indecent exposure of people and the planet to cars and the pollution they create. According the United Nations close to a million species of plants and animals could disappear from the face of the earth in the next 50 years as a
result of green house gasses being released primarily from cars.

Unless we change direction we are likely to land up were we are heading.

The Vancouver ride starts 3 pm at Sunset Beach (Beach Avenue at Bute). The theme for Vancouver is masquerade.

After party at Open Studios, 252 East 1st Avenue in Vancouver (see below)

The World Naked Bike Ride is an international celebration of the power and individuality of our bodies as well as a protest against oil dependency. All cyclists, roller bladers, joggers and skate boarders are invited to attend. The dress code is bare as you dare. The decision as to how naked participants are is determined by ride participants.

For more information and other start locations: http://www.worldnakedbikeride.org

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Saturday, June 11

MAXeMOM Party

Come celebrate the re-launch of MOMENTUM Magazine at Open Studios, 252 East 1st Avenue with DJ Goulash, Corrior, Taal Mala and Sven Torpedo.

Featuring pedal-powered cocktails, performance by Luxotica and fabulous bike-themed visuals by Marriane Bos and Rena del Pieve Gobbi.

Doors at 9:00 pm. Tickets are $12.00 (available at Bikes on the Drive).
This party is co-sponsored by BikeBox and will also celebrate the launch of Max de Druck Swiss-made bike trailers.

http://www.momentumplanet.ca/party.htm

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Sunday June 12

Please join us for a MOMENTUM Magazine post natal content meeting.

4:00 pm at Amy's house.

Light, healthy munchies will be provided.

These meetings are a great source of feedback, brilliant brain-storming, inspiration and fun. Come and participate in the making of MOMENTUM!

Please RSVP at self-propelled@telus.net or 604-255-9689.

Thanks, you rock!
Amy

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Sunday, June 19

Car-Free Commercial Drive Festival
Noon to 6 pm

Rumours that we plan to rip up the Drive and plant it are unsubstantiated, although it is true that all of the jackhammers at A&B Tool Rental have been mysteriously reserved for that day. Please bring seeds.

Details at: http://www.commercialdrivefestival.org

This Fest is gonna be off the hook. We've got 8 blocks of Car-Free Drive, 4 stages, are expecting gazillions of people, and WE NEED HELP!

If there's anything specific you would like to do or have experience in or resources to offer, such as...

-event organization
-artist
-roving performer
-graphics or promotion
-community outreach
-creative visualizer
-sign-maker
-art-jammer
-video or still photo documentation
-liaison with merchants or organizations
-on-site volunteer (info, security, donation-gathering, marshalling, setup/teardown, etc.)...

OR you "just wanna help", please e-mail info@commercialdrivefestival.org for, yes, info... or to offer your gifts.

In joy!
Carmen and the crew

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Sunday, June 19

This year, the notorious EastVan Chopper Fest (4th Annual) is happening in conjunction with the Car-Free Commercial Drive Festival.

The Drive will be closed to car and bus traffic between First Ave and Venables for the entire afternoon... for a big community party in the street! PedalPlay is presenting the EastVan Chopper Fest as part of the event, with support from the Margaret Charles Chopper Collective.

http://www.pedalpower.org and http://www.mcthree.ca

If you haven't been to an EastVan Chopper Fest before, chopper riders from Vancouver and beyond bring their bikes out for people to ride. Watch spectators get drawn into the action, wobbling and laughing their way down the street on wonky and stylish wheels. Kids and people of all ages love this event! Also featured is the PedalPowered Sound system and PedalPowered fresh fruit smoothies.

We are looking for about 2 dozen volunteers who want to be involved. Volunteers need to agree to one two-hour shift, sometime between noon and 6 pm on June 19th. Volunteer jobs are, greeting people, helping with bikes and bike maintenance, making fresh fruit pedal-powered smoothies, encouraging people to ride the bikes which power the sound system.

Volunteer rewards (aside from being involved in this showcase of positive bike culture):
Cheap pedalpower T-shirts (black with option of sleeveless), yummy smoothies on June 19th, and an after party for festival organizers and volunteers.

To volunteer, please contact RedSara at redsara@redsara.ca

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2000 + 5 WHEEL RIDE
Friday, June 24

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beat the heat,
treat yourself
to a party in the street!

Meet 5-5:30pm leave 6pm ish
georgia st side. vancouver art gallery downtown
[on the side w/ the lions]

. o o o Free. a gigantic rolling street party, the biggest in vancouver
ever. yes, we need over 1000 riders. on friday, june 24th, 2000+5, meet
5:30pm at the vancouver art gallery, georgia st. side, downtown. 1002.5
bicycles, 501.25 skateboards, 240.5 rollerblades, 250.625 rollerskates,
501.25 wheelchairs, 668.3 tricycles, 2005 unicycles, 6015 cycleboats,
1496 chopper bikes, 60 million bc dinosaurs against fossil fuels, 777
pedal powered couches... all human power welcome, bring all your friends.
bring your family. enjoy safety and comfort in the car-free space that we
create by simply riding together.

Finish of june bike month right, we ARE traffic!!!

[[[ velolove@vancouver.indymedia.org ]]]
[[[ http://www.velolove.bc.ca ]]]

Post ride picnic at sunset beach after the ride. bring food, refreshment a
blanket...

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Friday, July 1st
[First Friday Of The Month]

RIDE TO CHILLIWACK FOR CRITICAL MASS!

11am, 5 Corners, Downtown Chilliwack
Inaugural Chilliwack Mass Ride And Roll
Stan Freyman Memorial Ride On Canada Day Fun

Ride To Chilliwack From Vancouver:

Gather At 8am, For 9am Departure Breakfast
At Bons Restaurant (Broadway At Nanaimo)
Thursday, June 30th

.. .. .. .. ..
SOME OF US WILL RIDE ALL THE WAY from vancouver to chilliwack on thursday
june 30th. this 100km ride will be no tea party - but tea will be served -
over the course of the ~8hr ride. *note* that a support fossil burning
dinosaur pace car will be able to pack some of your gear {the ride meeting
place will be bons restaurant, NOT trout lake as previously announced}

oo oo oo oo oo

For those who don't want to ride all the way to chilliwack, you can
take skytrain as far as braid station, the westcoastexpress in the evening
as far as mission, or the #701 bus to maple ridge and ride the rest of the
way. Greyhound buses also travel to chilliwack and they'll carry your
bike {for $$$ 604-482-8747}

00 00 00 00 00

RIDERS headed out to chilliwack are welcome to camp at the freyman's farm,
5 acres just outside of chilliwack {9670 armstrong}. we will provide food
and drink on the evening of the 30th - otherwise folks are on their own
{self sufficient camping with access to shower and a toilet}

OO OO OO OO OO

ON FRIDAY, we will gather at 11 am in chilliwack. we'll meet at the
5-corners downtown, the intersection of young and yale, in front of the
courthouse clock. we'll ride through the town! after the ride people are
welcome to remain at the farm for the rest of the weekend and to hike,
swim, canoe and hang around.

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This first ride is in honour of STAN FREYMAN, a local Chilliwack resident
who passed away in January. Stan was an inspiration to all self-propelled
travellers. After he retired, Stan became concerned about global climate
change and made changes to his lifestyle. He sold his s.u.v. and bought a
more fuel efficient car, rode his bike all over Chilliwack and took the
bus for long trips. He dreamed of a Chilliwack critical mass ride. Stan
was living proof that it is never too late to change. With this ride we
honour his commitment to life long learning and his efforts to improve the
world in simple and practical ways.

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please be sure to RSVP for the Vancouver Ride:
o wackmass@gmail.com
8 OR phone Liz at 604! 873-->3877

.PDF. printable poster for Chilliwack Critical Mass:
http://vancouvercm.blogspot.com/2005/05/chilliwack-critical-mass-july-1st.html
http://www.bikesexual.org/cm/pic/flyers/new/wack-ridePOSTER400.pdf

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