As long as people are organizing for a huge counter-inaugural presence, we need a Critical Mass Bike Ride to go along with it.

Thanks to the people who fought the valiant legal fight and got paid thousands of dollars each from the city coffers for the failed policy of preemptive arrests at our last and biggest critical mass ride in DC.

Thanks to Council member Kathy Patterson, chairperson of the DC City Council Judiciary Committee, and thanks to other council members who voted for the legislation, our rights to ride our bikes en masse in traffic have been made more secure.

What better time to test these rights than Inauguration Day?

Come out and help make this the biggest Critical Mass bike ride DC has ever seen, (not so hard a task if you've ever been on a DC critical mass ride. Chicaco Critical Mass rocks. Bring it on down to DC.

Union Station
7:30 a.m.
January 20, 2005
Inauguration Day