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zimzum42 said:
All Saints?
If you get this joke, you're probably Catholic.
I'm going to try and come, it'll be my birthday CM.
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All Saints?
If you get this joke, you're probably Catholic.
I'm going to try and come, it'll be my birthday CM.
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bonj said:
We don't think it does, the police think it does. There is always a few aggressive taxi drivers and WVM giving us verbal, the police step in before they get kicked to death by cycle couriers.
Before the court case and SOCPA, there wasn't that many police. But then they turnt up in force in the hope of intimidating some people into not attending. These days they use it as a training excercise for cycle cops from London and it's surrounding boroughs. It also conviniently lines up with the end of the month, so they use it to errr... meet targets 
You do sometimes get chavvy kids on stunt bikes with pegs who take the piss. Either the bill or CM regulars have a quiet word if they start being arses. The whole thing's incredibly good natured and you wouldn't believe how stirring the drumming can be. Dunno if it was you Valliant, who had the GWB speeches mixed with hardcore techno but verily it did rock.
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I went. It was a happy, carefree event. Bigger turnout than I expected. Less corralled and shepherded by the police than previous events recently - I had the impression that they were less organised than before.
We went up over the IMAX roundabout, along the Strand, the Mall, Hyde Park corner, and were heading down Oxford Street when I peeled off for Victoria and the train home.
Low points: seeing two taxi-drivers deliverately drive at cyclists and hit them.
High points: that recumbent sound-system getting everyone doing the Monster Mash in Trafalgar Square; turning off a BMW moped's ignition after he had deliberately barged into the Mass looking for trouble.
On balance, a very good night and a good turn out with a happy crowd.
We went up over the IMAX roundabout, along the Strand, the Mall, Hyde Park corner, and were heading down Oxford Street when I peeled off for Victoria and the train home.
Low points: seeing two taxi-drivers deliverately drive at cyclists and hit them.
High points: that recumbent sound-system getting everyone doing the Monster Mash in Trafalgar Square; turning off a BMW moped's ignition after he had deliberately barged into the Mass looking for trouble.
On balance, a very good night and a good turn out with a happy crowd.
I was there; another excellent mass, well friendly again 
Seemed much faster at times than the two previous ones I've been to, not sure if this is a good or bad thing, nice to have the variety I think. Only downer was some Neanderthal chucking a drinks tray into the ride from the pavement.
Thing that has made me laugh on all of them so far is hecklers shouting 'get a job!'; I can't get the logic in that at all
why would riding a bike say anything about whether we're employed or not
Seemed much faster at times than the two previous ones I've been to, not sure if this is a good or bad thing, nice to have the variety I think. Only downer was some Neanderthal chucking a drinks tray into the ride from the pavement. Thing that has made me laugh on all of them so far is hecklers shouting 'get a job!'; I can't get the logic in that at all
why would riding a bike say anything about whether we're employed or not
