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SNIA and Ciemmona (Rome Critical Mass part two)

Saturday, the “Big Critical Mass” (“Ciemmona” in Italian) began at Piazza San Giovanni in Laterno, where I’d coincidentally visited a couple of days earlier. We started our day by going over to the Ciclofficina “Don Quixote” at SNIA, a former chemical factory squatted and converted to a Social Center (Centro Sociale: Italian social centers are […]

A Sublebrity in Italy!

The big Interplanetary Critical Mass on Saturday May 31 in Rome, followed by the Sunday June 1st 25-kilometer ride to the beach (and following the monthly Critical Mass on Friday May 30), has to be one of the most fun three-day periods I’ve ever had. I am overwhelmed by the attention and affection showered on […]

Critical Mass in Rome (part one)

Just as incredible as you might imagine”¦ maybe more so”¦ Wild bikes, warm people, a sweet scene late in the ride when a woman sat on her boyfriend’s handlebars facing him, with her arms wrapped tightly around him in a loving embrace, her head buried on his shoulder, while he pedaled along in the ride. […]