**🚲More safe cycling infrastructure now!
📅Usually last Friday of every month
📍5.30pm, State Library, Swanston St, naarm Melbourne
critical massSydney Road24 April 2026MEET 5.30pm @
State Library
Critical Mass will be riding up Sydney Road on Friday 24 April 2026 to highlight the lack of safe bicycle infrastructure and accessible tram stops both of which we'd like done before the Brunswick level crossing removal works start in 2028.The detours the LXR are proposing for when the Upfield path is closed during the works are very poor and we'd very much like safe protected bike lanes on Sydney Rd instead.As is tradition, we're meeting at 5:30pm at the State Library on Friday 24th April and then slowly riding in a large group to Brunswick via Sydney Rd and finishing at Bulleke-bek Park for some speeches (and then probably to a pub for a beer).Bring your bike, friends, lights, and playlists + bluetooth speakersIf you're unable to make it to the city for the start of the ride you can meet the ride along the way by checking Critical Maps
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.October 2025: The family and friends of Will Richter - in conjunction with Critical Mass - hosted a memorial ride on Friday 31st October 2025, in honour of Will and in support of safe
cycling infrastructure.
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
