Minnesota Critical Mass rides the last Friday of each month. The reason we ride is varied. But essentially we're trying to make a change in how the world looks at internal combustion engines and our consumer/car culture. The following quotes highlight our purpose for riding.

"[A] really good stock market, cheap gas, mass denial, and atrocious land use planning [creates road rage in] a country full to the brim with fat-ass'd whiners as dependent on cars as junkies are on smack, who bray about their "rights," their toys, and their so-called individualism--it makes them into insufferable, immoral, arrogant fools who are the butt of jokes worldwide. What the U.S. needs right now is another gas crisis, although I fear that would put too many drivers right over the edge, and that they would assault bicyclists and pedestrians en masse." --Stephen M. Hodges, Tallahassee, Florida

"The bicycle is the vehicle of a new mentality. It quietly challenges a system of values which condones dependency, wastage, inequality of mobility, and daily carnage" -- Jim McGurn, "On Your Bicycle"

"Autocentrism is a profit-driven worldview, an outgrowth of the same industrialism which brought us the prison-industrial-military complex,factory farms, and the understanding of human beings most fundamentally as cells with two functions: to produce, and to consume. This is why so many activist 'factions' have coalesced around the World Trade Organization protests; this is why Critical Mass can team up with Buy Nothing Day, or the homelessness rally on Lower Wacker Drive;...Forget objectivity. The velorution is at hand!" -- Adam Kessel

"What if we fail to stop the erosion of cities by automobiles?... In that case, we Americans will hardly need to ponder a mystery that has troubled men for millenia: What is the purpose of life? For us, the answer will be clear, established and for all practical purposes indisputable: The purpose of life is to produce and consume automobiles." -- Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities