[*BCM*] tonight's ride

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>Also, as per the comment about "pontificating" versus "acting" --
sometimes it's not quite that simple. In the case of CM, just riding at
the front doesn't guarantee that the ride will go where you want it to
go -- as I'm sure you all know the ride can kind of make decisions on
its own without any one person making that decision. That, and, even in
the event of a sensible group of people at the front making these
so-called "decisions" and taking "action," it only takes one or two
other cyclists to go down a one-way street or onto an on-ramp or
whatnot before 2 more follow, and now five and ten and suddenly half
the ride is 100 yards down the road and it is too late, too cumbersome,
or just plain hard to shout to everyone to stop and turn around -- see
the staircase example this last friday. And, as with all things CM, it
is safer to act en masse, and splitting the ride into a few people who
want to avoid a certain road and the remainder all plowing onward is
counter productive to the safety-in-numbers CM enjoys.

I agree completely, and would add only that most CM riders are not on this list and many who are on this list are not CM riders.  So sending out an e-mail likely won't get you very far.  Showing up and talking to other riders might, however.  (By "talking" I mean having an actual conversation, not just declaring your pre-formed opinion.)

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