>>10649528
TY, fren. The ploddin is kind a superpower. Not really but ya go with what ya got and I do like to get stuck in on these digz. Seems your tenacity includes learning new skillz as ya go with your ole bag of tricks and talents. Tippy top.
Here is a vid of the same ride, AUG 2015, during which the happy mob meandered around central London. Passed London Bridge, Embankment, Trafalgar x2, Piccadilly Circus x2, Grosvenor House, down to Harrods, circled back before the last run down Pall Mall to the palace. Long leisurely ride. The vid is edited so not a continuous record. Moon showed up again in brief stop at Big Ben. (Might be possible to get a reading on the clockface, btw. If can make time will enhance vid to see what we can make of it.) The blog, which you may have already seen, says the following - Critical Mass London 28 August 2015. Reportedly 26km โ or 25.27Km 3hrs 14min from start to Buckingham palace.
https://network23.org/criticalmasslondon/critical-mass-london-28-august-2015/#more-300
The mass fell apart again, when people bombed down Thames Street and didnโt wait to let the mass catch up. And of course, the rest of the mass didnโt keep together. It turning out to be more trouble than itโs worth each time, veteran massers are giving up en mass!
I donโt think the people hopping on the front to pick the route read these posts or understand that they really have to go slow and wait up often โ very often โ in order to keep 800+ people together. Shame really as it is much more fun when everything stays together.
I guess the trick is to let the speedy idiots just go for it and stay with the music bike.
After Parliament Square, it got messy and dangerous and corking was non-existent.
It went pretty well apart from having to seriously slow the front down at first, once at blackfriars bridge and once at Tower Bridge as they just went bashing ahead with stretching the mass out to a bloody mess again. Once that was under control and understood to slow and wait to pile up the actual mass of people it went fairly well. Even the corking got better throughout the evening.
It was after when we went over Tower Bridge where we did that pointless u-turn where we could have gone straight left. But it continued through the night till Oxford Circus
She had lots moar to say, kek, about the lack of organized leadership. It is Critical Mass which supposed to be leaderless, kek. Anyway, the moon's reappearance in the vid might be of interest. Scroll to bottom of her blog entry and there's plenty of vids of the ride.
Also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY0NjHWqkvk