**🚲More safe cycling infrastructure now!
📅Usually last Friday of every month
📍5.30pm, State Library, Swanston St, naarm Melbourne
critical mass
BIG CITY LIGHTS
YARRA EDITION29 May 2026MEET 5.30pm
@ State Library
Melb CBDSee below for ride pick up points
Are you ready for Critical Mass Big City Lights?Join us Friday 29th May 2026 @ 5.30pm, State Library, Swanston St, naarm Melbourne.The route: CBD - Richmond - Abbotsford - Collingwood - Clifton Hill.Pick up point 1: Powlett Reserve on Albert St, East Melbourne.Pick up point 2: Victoria Crescent/Gipps Street near Gipps St bridge, Abbotsford.Pick up point 3: Johnston and Wellington Street, CollingwoodLets keep the disco going with our friends from Bike Rave Melbourne and Nicer Wellington Street!It's dark, bring all your bike lights and any reflective material. If you want to, take a trip to a [insert retail outlet] for budget priced solar powered led strip lights.More importantly, just turn up with lights on your bike. Bring your bluetooth speakers or bike sound system.Ride With GPS routeBig City Lights PlaylistRunning late? Find the ride, download or follow Critical MapsWhat is Critical Mass: How to keep safe on the ride? What is "massing up" and "corking
Values
Critical Mass rides allow participants to show support for changes to the fabric of Melbourne. Some of the benefits of joining a ride include:Increased visibility: Large groups of people, more visibility, safety, and a show of what people want.Advocacy: Protest, shout, push, or politely ask. Rides give participants an outlet to have their voices heard.Community building: Make friends, meet likeminded people, share experiences, have fun, and install a sense of camaraderie amongst active transport users.Increased cycling: These rides show people that biking is a viable option.
Health: Moving your body is good for you. Bikes allow people from all backgrounds and all levels of ability to move around and stay healthy.Environment: Bikes are efficient, clean, and don't damage city streets or pollute the air. Need we say more?
Press Releases
Critical Mass is organised by individual organisations. If available, press releases will be available here.
Information for participants
Running late and looking for the ride? We are using CriticalMaps to track the ride.
How to keep safe on the ride? What is "massing up" and "corking"? Your questions answered.
We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, on which we live, work, and ride. We pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging. Critical Mass rides take place on land that was stolen, and we acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded. Always was and always will be Aboriginal land.Designed and supported by Fobii
