As a cyclist, let me be the first to say that Critical Mass is full of whiny pansy ass losers who lacked a father figure growing up.
I agree..I live in Portland Oregon and commute on a bike. Critical Mass is a ‘get in your face’, confrontational, disruptive group. They stop traffic, run stop signs, and want to impose their lifestyle on the auto drivers(who pay all the road taxes) that pay for their wonderful bike lanes.
Let me be the second. Serious cycling for transportation requires coexistence with cars, trucks and buses. It also requires always remembering what will happen in a confrontation with cars, trucks and buses.
The ignorant Gomers that yell "get on the sidewalk" are few and far between. Most motorists are rational enough to understand that if I wasn't next to you on the road on my bike, I'd be in front of you on the road in my car slowing down your commute. Why piss people off with idiotic stunts like this and turn them against you, when originally they barely noticed you?
It’s too bad. Most of the bike-riders that I’ve ever dealt with are decent people, these clowns are out giving everybody a bad name.