The CM of New York 'was an unforgettable experience ...
A good number of bikes showed the adhesive Chassis
Italian with pride, I managed to sell even the mesh (
believe that the image of David with the bike is a focused and decisive
marketing strategy:)) . Arriving on 29
afternoon in New York and called a friend who is part of an environmental
the place that has a Ciclofficina
virtually identical to ours (FI brugolarossa ed) But where
sell bikes for $ 60! We lend bikes and alerts us to pay close attention
because the police did not estimate the large massers.Dentro
me to think, 'What will never be!', I had never thought of that!
Appointment to Union Square for 18:30 (yes, even there, as
Florence!), Late arrival (as here) and with great pleasure I miss the sparkle of the eye
dozens of bikes that reflect the lights of
park. All at once the glint becomes a blinding flash, a noise of helicopter blades
comes from heaven. A helicopter!
Yes, the glow was procured by Nightsun (sun night) installed
police helicopter
watching over our helmets. I felt important! :)
past the amazement that the helicopter had been sent
just for us, I see that around me there were only bicycles but also scooters and
SUV, thus far nothing unusual, except that on the 30
scooter near me, there is no 'written Piaggio, but Police. SUVs blacks
lower the windows and glimpse of the red light cameras
hungry faces "ciclocriminali"
who crowded the square.
I make a turn, Uniformly distributed stickers (PCI) and T-shirts,
talk with people, tell me how in 2004 were arrested at the convention of the Republican Party while
protested, they tell me
before that were made about a thousand each month, now it's hard to be
100. They just won the appeal on the arrests, but the people do not
most part, because now they can not arrest you but they find every excuse to get
100-50 fines ranging from $ ... 'Adrenaline rises.
A lady with a bicycle gives me alberodinatale
lights and I should put them on the bike, because I am a good candidate for the
multa.Sono the 19, I ask when we leave, they tell me that the departure is the most
hard, because if it does not happen in the first mass start
that are first to be stopped. Good start. The group part
and with it the scooters that are the butt of
mass. I centralized, I do not want to risk it. Given the circumstances and
'was decided to stop at red lights,
right thing for the law, but bad for the mass at the third traffic light and
' decimated. Now there are three masses around the neighborhood.
All are quiet. Police behind me in there 'more and I do not understand
. The 'fast' group vanish and 3 minutes after the radio call
beside me information about the location of the police, the mass
then proceeds in the opposite direction, I begin to understand the feeling
and 'beautiful. He had reversed the situation, a couple of our
were following the
Police would not make it to ever come across, Mammamia.
Turns turns and turns.
news comes at a traffic light in the other group, we decide to stop and wait
. The police comes to us from behind. In front of us
30 cyclists who were coming in the wrong direction at the sight of flashing
reduction in single file and bicycles on their shoulders through
strips in front of us. The crowd and 'delirious starts to cry
' Our Streets! Our Streets! '. We share together, the cops are
impatient, stop a guy because he had the bell, a
other for a light. Continue, it is more fun, the mass dissolves
... each in his own.
BENEFITS Link x
who wants to learn more
http://www.bikesagainstbush.com/blog/ (record of 200 and goes to the Republican convention arrests
)
http://critical-mass.info/police. html (the misadventures of CM with the police
)
