bike month

It’s a balmy June evening and a river of colour is flowing South up the three lanes of the Burrard bridge. Bicycles, hundreds of them, are jingling and swaying. They ride on mountain bikes, racers, tandems, cruisers, crazy choppers, kiddie bikes with their training wheels, bike-powered music machines, a bicycle-shopping cart hybrid, in-line skates, and skateboards. It’s bike month and this is the biggest of the year’s Critical Mass rides that start off from outside the Vancouver Art Gallery on the last Friday of every month.