Critical Mass - Newcastle
Date: 1st Friday of every Month
Time: assemble from 5:30pm onwards for a 6pm start
Place: Civic Park, opposite Town Hall, King St, Newcastle NSW Australia
Bring: your bike, helmet and lights (it may be dark when you are going home).
 
Celebrate cycling and all its positive aspects. Claim your right to the road. We are traffic! Bring your bike, your helmet, your lights, a noisemaker and your friends. The ride is usually followed by a drink or a meal (or both) and you can chat with your fellow cyclists about cycling activism.

Special theme is: Christmas car road toll carnage
Deaths and injuries to pedestrians and cyclists are caused by motorised vehicles.
http://www.infrastructure.gov.au/roads/safety/publicati ons/2006/pdf/death_ cyclists_ road.pdf

Worldwide it was estimated that 1.2 million people were killed and 50 million more were injured in motor vehicle collisions in 2004. We need a peaceful and gentler world which includes our roads.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Epidemiology_ of_motor_ vehicle_collisions

Gung Ho
Means "Working Together" in Mandarin. It has come to mean boundless enthusiasm and application.
Please be inspired to be Gung Ho about Critical Mass!
 
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/home. php?sk=lf#!/event.php?eid=156771811033 438

Critical Mass (Global bike ride: Celebrate Cycling & its virtues[1])
Assert our right to ride on roads, and not in the car door opening death “lanes”.
Grassroots, sustainable bike culture in action!
We will ride around handing out info flyers to the community.
This is the only monthly safe, sustainable bike ride in Newcastle : We dont encourage cycling in the car door opening death lane. Its not very syustainable to ride in car door opening death lane for too long, eventually you will get hit by an opening door. See "*** Stop cars annoying you - some riding in traffic advice ***" for more info.

Meet people, share skills, make new friends.
Unsponsored and unaffiliated, Critical Mass is an intentional community
in motion, one that brings life back to the car dominated streets of our
fabulous city. Critical Mass is Pollution Free Traffic, Safety in Numbers,
Party on Wheels. Ride daily; celebrate monthly! Critical Mass.

Working bikes for participants:
The NBEC gives away 1 working bike for each critical mass bike ride.
When you complete the ride you get your "deposit" refunded.

Themes:
Jan- Healthy is happy
Feb- Animal road kill
Mar- Consumerism Kills
Apl- Wars for Oil
May- Climate Change
Jne- Urban sprawl
Jly- Clean air
Aug- More roads, more cars, more death
Spt- Bloomin Bike Ride (Bikes are life)
Oct- Ladies Ride (Helmets for car driver!)
Nov- Car door opening death bike lanes
Dec- Car road toll carnage