The latest in women’s cycling clothing isn’t lycra cycling shorts, or sports bras, or even bicycle jerseys. It’s more like two pasties and some body makeup.
Riders in the World Naked Bike Ride go “as bare as you dare”, raising awareness of the vulnerability of cyclists on the road and protesting against our modern-day car culture.
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The riders include families with children, university professors, carpenters, environmentalists, sport cyclists, gardeners, bike activists, therapists, poets, city workers, Burning Man people, union workers, union organizers, legal professionals, and people who are just curious what it would be like to ride naked – people just like you!
These brave folks don’t need any cycling clothing whatsoever (well, maybe some fancy underwear…), showing the rest of us that participating in sports doesn’t have to mean running out to buy the latest in cycling gear, like a sports bra or cycling shorts or tights. Your birthday suit is enough!
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People ride to protest our oil-addicted economy, our car culture (cult?), or the wars fueled by the fight for energy resources.
Naked riders also ride to support being car-free, for general cycling advocacy, and for awareness of cyclists on the road.
And some of them ride to just be naked: people for body-positive messaging, body freedom activists, nudists, and naturalists.
This weekend, Philadelphia is hosting its first World Naked Bike Ride, joining cities across the globe that are coming together to celebrate cycling and the human body. Get the full details on the Philadelphia World Naked Bike Ride, on September 6, 2009.
Riders are encouraged to help spread the message through creative body painting, decorated bicycles, banners or placards, as well as passing out leaflets to the awe-stricken bystanders. Your participation comes at your level of comfort – wear as little or as much clothing as you like, come as you are or transform yourself into a green graffiti-ed bicycle activist with body paint, glitter, and a wig.
World Naked Bike Ride slogans:
Actually, we’re just as vulnerable biking with clothes on.
We’re all naked underneath our clothes.
Oil is not a bare necessity but a crude obsession.
No more blood, no more oil, no more wars on foreign soil!
A dirty mind? You need clean air instead of exhaust fumes!
World Naked Bike Ride gives you a taste, but the WNBR wiki has the full monty. And check out the tag World Naked Bike Ride on Flickr for more great photos.
Join the Biking Revolution of Love and Freedom Group on Facebook to get updates via everyone’s favorite social media site.
Of course, your bare end could meet this end, but what’s activism without a little police contact?
Images: Erinisfunky, Cadigan, becky.higbee, Shiny Sixpence, Panoptico, anemoneprojectors, spinneyhead, carlosfpardo
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Wow! Great pictures