The train to San Francisco I needed to catch for critical mass stopped in Mountain View at 4:58 PM. This being a week after solstice, sundown happened before it got here.

     

I got up there and critical mass was much smaller than usual. I wasn't going to take any pictures, just ride for a long time. Then I saw this T shirt and had to photograph it. I love that concept, "THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE NOTORIZED." The guy wearing it said it had been put out by the planning commission in some small north bay town whose name I forgot. Fairfax maybe.

Quite a few of the riders were outfitted to provide music. Two in particular had great sound systems on their bikes. The bald guy above was one. Just look at the size of the speakers on his trailer. He was really working hard to give the rest of us free music. I was struggling just to pedal my own butt up the hills, and I wasn't carrying 100 lbs. of stereo gear plus batteries.

  

This guys bike is designed to carry about 300 lbs of cargo. He said he uses it mainly to take home groceries.

  

I saw this guy and I thought "is there really a Shark whose name can be read as 'side real west'?"

This guy's sound system's brain was an iPhone on the handle bars. He would touch the screen a few times and another great song would come on. The last one I heard was a very thought provoking one by the Black Eyed Peas. I think it was called "Where's the Peace?" I'm going to see what I can do about hearing it again.

  

The ride petered out around 8ish in an area I wasn't familiar with. The two to the right of the huge christmas tree escorted me to Civic Center Plaza. I know the way from there.

I passed this wreak again on the way to the CalTrain station. Critical mass had passed it earlier. I remember someone saying then "I'm really glad we had nothing to do with that."