Talk:Critical Mass (cycling)/Archives/2011

Friday Night Skate
Road skating Has been wikilinked in the see also section, the entire text of the linked section is "A Friday Night Skate (often abbreviated to FNS) is group skate occurring on Friday nights, a common night for a street skate in many cities throughout the world." I don't know about these "FNS" events, but they don't seem to have a great deal in common with CM and the linked section is does not contain enough info to let me know if they are similar, in what way, or really know anything about "FNS". I took the wikilink out but someone put it back, what do others think, should it stay?--Keithonearth (talk) 17:43, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Since it links to info that is not in-depth enough, sourced, and potentially not even related it is not relevant due to one editors original research. Seconding and removing.Cptnono (talk) 10:39, 22 February 2009 (UTC)


 * How is a mass of skaters "potentially not even related" to a mass of cyclists?
 * Restoring wikilink, which is now to 'Street skating', of which the FNS is an example.Wnjr (talk) 15:09, 22 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I don't want to start an edit war over something as minor as a see-also link, but it seems unnecessary and tenuous to me (other than bunch of people riding there bikes together, bunch of people roller skating together), and the information wikilinked to is almost fails to enlighten me. Are the FNS events a celebration of rollerskating culture, trying to support other rollerskaters in making rollerskating a safe and practical form of transportation, is it an event of media attention and debate? What is the connection exactly Wnjr?  please elaborate.--Keithonearth (talk) 01:13, 23 February 2009 (UTC)


 * The mass street skates are like Critical Mass in having no fixed route, taking over streets from cars, and not having a precisely defined purpose, for some participants they are definitely the things you list.
 * Would you care to elaborate on how this is at all tenuous for a See Also? It seems an absurd suggestion to me. Wnjr (talk) 13:58, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Now that we have sources in the linked to section I have no worries with it.Cptnono (talk) 01:09, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Now that we have sources in the linked to section I have no worries with it.Cptnono (talk) 01:09, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the further explanation Wnjr, that's useful information, it would be great to have it at Road skating. As it stands now, with sources in the linked section, but very limited information, I don't find the link to be particularly useful, and to be a minor bit of clutter, but I won't remove it. If the above description was copied and paste, (pref with refs, but I won't challenge it if we don't have them) into the Road skating section I would feel the link was useful. I do find it more helpful if you don't dismiss my opinion as "absurd ", and stick to explaining your rational. --Keithonearth (talk) 06:06, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

I don't know anything about Friday Night Skate, but Critical Mass rides do often have people on roller skates, skateboards, tricycles, quadcycles, even occasionally speed stilts. (And a few runners, but they usually can't keep up.) dougmc (talk) 17:27, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Critical mass unpopular in Brazil..
Hello! I live in Denmark, where there are fairly good conditions for bicyclists. I hadn't heard of the critical mass-arrangement, before I read of this terrible attack in Brazil. The video shows a man in a black VW Golf in high speed ploughing into the group of cyclists, clearly intentional, and then just drive on. The car was later found, but the driver not. It is very hard to think that anyone can believe they have the right to try to kill people just because they are riding the bike in the middle of the street. Link on the video on you-tube here but beware of strong content: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRgiIrHRoHM&feature=player_embedded Mr. Hagen, Denmark87.122.38.161 (talk) 07:59, 1 March 2011 (UTC)


 * The practice of corking roads in order to pass through red lights as a group is in contravention of traffic laws that govern cyclist traffic and is contrary to Critical Mass' claim that "we are traffic", since ordinary traffic (including bicycle traffic) does not have the right to go through intersections once the traffic signal has changed to red[20].

This appears to violate WP:NPOV and WP:OR.