Chesterfield Cycle Campaign

 You may be aware of the Climate Swoop happening this weekend at Ratcliffe on Soar power station.

For more on that, you can see http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/actions/climate-swoop-2009/the-plan

There is also a mass bike ride cycling from Leeds through Sheffield to Ratcliffe for this event.  Details are:

Bike Bloc: The Roaming Riders of Resistance

The Bike Bloc's mission is to reclaim the streets, to reclaim the highways, to be the Swoops road patrol.

The Bike Bloc will be a river of pedal powered resistance machines, a postcapitalist bike gang and an art bike carnival. Calling all bike lovers, bike hackers, bike trailers, climate campers and soundsytems!

The Plan:

15th October – Set off from Leeds Train station at 10am, arrive in the evening at Sheffield Social Centre.

16th October – Set off from Sheffield Train Station 10am, arrive in the evening at Nottingham.

17th  October – CRITICAL MASS, set off from Nottingham Train Station at 10am.

Once at the power station we’ll boom pedal powered tunes, cycle the streets as our fancy takes us and be on call for the rest of the blocs. See a high vis van? Then call the roving resistance machine to block it’s path with a critical mass!

If you’re planning on coming on this bloc, it’d be great if you could email yorks.gcs.outreach@googlemail.com to let us know.