So I decided to go off to another Midnight Mass ride, and figured that my logistics lessons of the past would improve things. Knowing that late departures of the group were to be expected, I took the 22:58 321 then skytrain, arrived @ Commercial & Broadway 00:04, booted it up Commercial (passing 2 other late arrivers just north of 1st Ave) and wheeled into Grandview Park @ 00:07. Said a few hellos, including people asking me if I had seen any of the pictures of me from "The ThunderDome" (the name now being applied to the afore blogged Mini-Bike Madness), so I know they exist out in WWW-land, I'll just have to track them down (including a video clip, but I am lead to believe it has not yet been posted). Interestingly enough, there wasn't as much alcohol being consumed as before, and I am lesd to believe this was an unusual non-occurence. One person even admitted this would be his 1st sober MM. Many of the riders stated that their stomachs were still recovering from the various VeloMutation weekend events (little wonder, believe you me).
We left about quarter past 12, S on Commercial, W on 1st (a nice downhill stretch) and the timing was perfect. We hit Clark just a couple seconds after the light went green, blasting through the intersection, along Grandview Viaduct and Terminal to Main St, where we frontrunners waited a few mins for the stragglers to catch up. Due to a slight miscommunication of which seawall route we were taking on our westward jouney, the lead pack headed N on Quebec, the rest all followed, and we had to make a u-turn up the road a bit and onto the seawall by Science World going along the S of False Creek. We got to the Granville Island entrance an decided to have a break. There was plenty of music this time. 3 ghetto blasters.
(time to go, regular last friday of the month Critical Mass. finish l8r)
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