[*BCM*] busycle

[Lee Peters]

Your idea identified in the website looks interesting.  I hope it takes off.

I don't know how much experience you have with CM, but I will pretend 
you only have a little.  CM doesn't really get organized into anything 
beyond meeting the last Friday of each month.  There have been occasions 
in which we had a 'mission'.  Once, a single person made an announcement 
on the list that we were going for donuts.  Then he made a map and 
passed it out to the group at the ride.  The group followed the map, 
with some leadership at the front of the pack by a couple of 
participants.  Once, I managed to lead the group to JP to join another 
ride (the BnB Halloween ride).

Usually, however, there is no mission.  The pack just goes along looking 
for fun/interesting/visible places to ride.  There may be 
interchangeable leaders during a single ride.  I personally don't like 
to lead, but I have lead when I thought we were going in an 
uninteresting direction.  We often end up on Newbury St & Downtown, 
sometimes in Allston or JP, often in Harvard Square.  Once a bicycle cop 
'protecting' us at the special DNC ride asked me "who's in charge" & my 
honest answer was "nobody, this just happens."

I have a couple recommendations:

1.  Take the busycle down to Copley Sq. at 5:30 on July 29.  If a bike 
holding 10 people shows up, I guarantee the group will follow you.  IF 
that is what you want.
2.  Make a map, then get some help from a couple riders to get the pack 
to go where you're talking about.  It would require your direct 
leadership at the ride to pull this off.

Surely you know of this:
http://www.conferencebike.com/
A bike like this joined us on a CM many years ago.  I hope the bike 
shows up, perhaps the hype of a 10 person bike will create a Mass larger 
than our wildest dreams.


Matthew Mazzotta wrote:

> We are building a busycle the next couple of months in Roxbury, and 
> was wondering if the july ride would go down that way so that we could 
> be part of it, or any other ideas.  busycle.com
> matthew
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