Here's some more Critical Mass pics that I took in August '98. The first one features the unique transport favoured by one of the regulars on the demo, who sadly isn't in the pic. It's a recumbent, equipped with halogen lights, drum brakes and c.d. player with giant speaker and tweeters (you always know when he's around, as his sound system's blasting away for all to hear). He wasn't the only person riding around on a recumbent that day. A film crew recording the demo for a programme recently broadcast on Channel 5 (or "Fuzzy Picture TV", as I call it due to the awful reception I get in my area) on transport in London followed events as they unfurled on a pedal vehicle that, at best, resembled a squashed banana on wheels.
This one was taken, I think either
around Soho, or in Chinatown, and has us all streaming through the narrow
streets.
The next two were taken outside
the gates that lead to 10 Downing St. Once, you could go right up to the
door and take a pic outside it. But when a certain Mrs. Thatcher was in
residence, every terrorist and his sister (along with countless others)
couldn't resist breaking off a chunk to the greengrocer's daughter from
Grantham (hence the gates). Was Mr. Blair in the place? Somehow, I think
not (too busy with other things, it seems).
I'd loved to have taken some
more pics, but before I had the chance, the local plods moved us away.
The last photo I got was taken as we were passing by a local art gallery
near Selfridges.
RaRather apt, don't you think?