I went on one of these Critical Mass rides once
And I was a little bit worried that exactly the same thing was going to happen!
I'm all for raising awareness of and asserting cyclists' right to be on the road, but I really wasn't comfortable with the degree of deliberate obstruction and inconvenience to other road users, especially given that it takes place every month. The most cringeworthy part was making pedestrians wait for us all to pass as we rode through pedestrian crossings with the (traffic, not pedestrian) lights on red. I never went back.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2011, 13:49, Reply)