Tonight’s movie, for June 23, was ‘You never Bike Alone’. I highly recommend it. It’s a balanced look at the Vancouver Critical Mass (edmontoncriticalmass.com): history, conflicts, bike activist who hate or love it, reasonable arguments for and against it and, best of all, the weird and wonderful collection of things and people - tall bikes, trailers, small bikes, car bikes, choppers, naked riders, underwear riders, costumes, signs, jugglers, trick riders. And the people who stop to do twister on the Lions’ Gate Bridge. And the people who take up a parking spot with a garden planted in the engine block. And and and. It’s a visual inspiration of cycling as normalcy and cycling as an artistic expression. If you want a copy, the Edmonton Small Press Association (edmontonsmallpress.org/links.html) who hosted the evening still has a few copies. They’ll bring them to sell at the Bikeology Festival on Saturday, if they have any left. We ought to play it again for next Bike Month. I’d see it again and again.
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Thanks for the appreciative write-up. A small correction though twister was being played on the Granville Bridge – a huge 4-laner bridge that is probably the scariest bridge in Vancouver to cross. You Never Bike Alone does show quite a bit of rides across the Lions Gate bridge including Critical Mass doing a U-Turn on the bridge.
- Robert, icycle.ca producer
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