We met at the usual time and place of 6pm at central library in Manchester city centre. There were ten of us, numbers being a bit low becasue many people had gone to other towns and cities for christmas and new year, but making up the numbers we had people from Aberdeen, York and Swansea!
We rode around the roads for an hour and a half with the bicycle soundsystem playing a mixture of Slayer and Country/ folk. Some people cheered us and some drivers tried to kill us by dangerously overtaking us and driving on the wroong side of the road nearly into on-coming cars.
One woman said that we were being mean to her children becasue we were slowing her down and so I explained that we were celebrating bikes over
car culture because amongst other things (and in addition to other groups of society) cars give children asthma and run them over and so maybe she'd
like to reconsider and support us, but she later overtook us slowing down an ambulance that we were making space for to get through, she didnt get
very far, about 200 yards to the next lights! She would have been quicker on a bike (of course!) Oh well. but that was really the only randomly
vaguely negative incident most people seemed pleased to see us or inquisistive about why we were riding.
It was a fun ride and nice that some new people came on it. Hopefully we'll see them again. After the ride some of us went for a beer in the bar. nice.