The first IBikeBop Dublin Critical Mass cycle in 2024 kicks off tomorrow, Friday, January 26. It starts outside the Hugh Lane Gallery on Parnell Square North at 6pm and lasts around an hour.
The event organised by IBikeDublin and Monthly Cycles is roughly based on long-standing Critical Mass protest cycles that started in Sweden in the early 1970s and popularised in San Francisco in the 1990s.
But unlike the image or stenotype of the wave of Critical Mass events after San Francisco, the IBikeBop events in Dublin could be seen as part of a third wave of Critical Mass with a focus on non-confrontation and fun-filled, with music, hence the name.
The organisers said last year that the attendance of the cycle was growing in 2023.