Posted by Kevin, a resident of the Greenmeadow neighborhood, on Sep 18, 2009 at 11:37 pm
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I was wondering the same thing, they went by my house too.

Posted by qq, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood, on Sep 19, 2009 at 12:25 am

San Jose Bike Party

Web Link

PAPD was calling it "Critical Mass". That, it was not.

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Posted by Resident, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood, on Sep 19, 2009 at 8:27 am

I hope they all had bike lights.

Posted by qq, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood, on Sep 19, 2009 at 7:50 pm

I'd say it was about 50/50 on the lights. PAPD was not trying to cite them however, just providing escort and traffic control. Was very nice.

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Posted by Alan, a resident of the Greenmeadow neighborhood, on Sep 20, 2009 at 7:28 am

According to the website, they had 2,000 participate.

I like the idea behind it, and thought 95% of the cyclist were quite well behaved. I wouldn't mind seeing them come by this way again if they could ask - and likely only about a dozen did this - people not to put loud boom-boxes on their bikes. As someone with kids (an 8 year-old for example) trying to sleep, a bike blasting loud obnoxious music at 11 PM at night is no different than a car doing the same thing.

Could someone in Palo Alto, organize a family-oriented version- of this event? Something during the weekend that uses the Palo Alto bike system. Maybe does a small circle around the city. You could join the group when they pass by your neighborhood and then finish when the group returns.

Posted by Sarah, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Sep 20, 2009 at 8:25 am

A family bike ride around town is a great idea. I think the PTA has organized something like this a couple of times in the past to encourage kids to bike to school. The last one was a few years ago, though.