You Never Bike Alone

(18 Jan: Updated link) Barry Link, features editor and columnist at The Vancouver Courier, was at the Moving Pictures Film Festival screening of You Never Bike Alone on Saturday. He's written a review, which sounds like it was something of a conversion for him in the way he sees cyclists who take part in these rides.

Mark Wojahn organised a screening at Casket cinema in Minneapolis, Minnesota of You Never Bike Alone. Here's our first organiser's review from the Brave New Theaters network:

"I laughed, I cried. I felt stronger and more optimistic about our chances after watching You Never Bike Alone." Carbusters magazine.

The latest issue of Momentum Magazine - the local publication "for self-propelled people" - has a short review of You Never Bike Alone.

The Globe and Mail today carries a round-up of films at Moving Pictures Film Festival, with a paragraph on You Never Bike Alone.

Rob Howatson writes, "The most controversial film in the lineup

The Vancouver Sun gave over almost a whole page of its Westcoast Life section today to review You Never Bike Alone.

Reg Harkema, director of award-winning drama Monkey Warfare, was in Vancouver to promote the opening of his film. He braved the snow storm for the opening of You Never Bike Alone and writes about it on his blog. Here's the bit with his take on the film:

"Checked out this movie about the history of the Vancouver Critical Mass on Sunday. What could have potentially been a self-indulgent, nepotistic wank was actually a very thoughtfully constructed doc about a wide range of characters changing the urban landscape of Vancouver..."

Doc looks at the development of vibrant bike culture in Vancouver, Canada, and how the city's self-propelled population are mobilizing to promote the bicycle as a viable form of transport. You Never Bike Alone shows how the foundations for today's burgeoning bike scene in the city was set in the early Nineties when cyclists risked arrest by cycling en masse to publicize unsafe road conditions and rides of the mid-Nineties which were sometimes characterized by arrests.