The first ever World Naked Bike Ride in St. Louis is set for tomorrow, August 2nd in St. Louis. Organizers are encouraging participants to go “as bare as you dare”.
Bikers are encouraged to go as “bare as you dare.” It is not mandatory to go completely naked, though encouraged. In fact, participants can come fully clothed if they wish. Body paint and other creative body coverings are also encouraged, as are helmets and other protective biking gear. Also, if you would like to participate without a bike, any sort of transportation that is not a car (i.e. rollerskates, skateboards) can also be used.
Police are saying they’ll arrest anyone who is indecent.
The purpose of the organization and the ride is:
- To protest oil dependency
- To promote comfortable body image
- To increase awareness of cyclists in a motor-driven world
- To provide exercise and fun for all those who participate
Link to details about the St. Louis ride.
To protest oil dependency? Dumb f*ck liberals.
Lets see-
bycycle tires – oil based (haven’t been rubber is ages. Even so still takes carbon based fuels to make rubber tires)
steel – oil based energy to create metals (or carbon fibers)
seat – oil based materials (naked bottoms on a bycycle seat, theres a joke in there somewhere)
helmet – oil based materials (not to mention nanny state liberals telling us we mussst wear a helmet to be “thafe”) ((pronounced “safe” to normal folks))
why not just be honest and say, ‘hey, lets get naked.” and not some fake excuse.
Cynical, yes but only made that way by the self serving earth first types.
Not sure exactly what is meant by “First World Naked Bike Ride” (first time? first world?) but they’ve been doing this in Seattle for twenty years at the Fremont Solstice Parade:
http://fremontartscouncil.org/events_solstice.html
Here are some pictures:
http://www.bodyfreedom.org/painted_cyclists/
markus you are so much more intelligent that the “Dumb f*ck liberals”. A bicycle uses so much more oil than a motor vehicle. I didn’t realize it until you just pointed that out.
I agree…three of those ‘reasons’ don’t fly. Especially ‘increase awareness of cyclists’ — As if the signs, radio spots, news stories, pavement markings, special lanes, orange vests, reflectors, strobe lights, and groups of cyclers riding 3 or 4 or 5 abreast at 10 mph on a curvy, hilly, 35 mph two-lane road and laughing & flipping the bird at anyone who tries to pass or even toots to move them over into single file so that 15 or 20 cars can resume driving to work, isn’t enuf to make us aware. These kooks are just attention whores.
Anyone think Infidel made the ride?
No but the ladies can ride me,those idiot people on bikes get in the road in Georgia when there is a sidewalk two feet over DUMBFUC*S! thats what the sidewalk is for
Missing the point folks.
You all that want to go back in time and live a swarthy life …go for it. Fine with me. Hope it wors for us all.
For me give me oil driven prosperity. Then nuclear, solar or whatever comes next. To you phonies saying we all should all live in mud huts (whilst you are sipping on alatte)…then do it! There is no mother earth folks. No gai either….
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I don’t want no Gaia freak to tell me about some great big lie
Well I don’t want no Gaia freak telling me about the CO2 in the sky
No I don’t want no one to tell me the earth is gonna die
I wanna live my life, I don’t want people telling me what to do
I just believe in myself, ’cause no one else is true
So believe what I tell you, it’s the only way you’ll find in the end
Just believe in yourself – you know you really shouldn’t have to pretend
Don’t let those empty people try to interfere with your mind
Just live your life and leave them all behind
Under the Sun (Edit) – Black Sabbath circa ’72
Markus is right!
And Ozzy Osborn knows more about living on the earth than anyone else I know. He’s raised some great kids to boot!
And heck, it takes energy and raw materials to make a bicycle that is then powered for the rest of it’s existence by human energy… so THAT’S just as bad as a fourwheeler, jet-ski, or chevy blazer.
We should all take Markus’s advise and hurry up and use up everything we can get our hands on before someone else beats us to it, because these goofy freaks are having too much FUN!
actually sirgoofsalot it was terry butler who wrote the lyrics not ozzy
believe it or not before ozzy become a drugged out goof he was prety savvy.
Or is he a goof and it is all an act? last I heard he is worth about a hundred million
don’t know about his kids. sound like they are pretty spoiled by the way you talk.
I don’t know how savvy ozzy was- I think Black Sabbath was a great rock band- Geezer Butler may have written the lyrics, I don’t know.. But to insinuate that because the raw materials that go into making a bicycle negates the environmental, health, and economic benefits of using a bicycle when practical, and makes it a hypocritical act to advocate it’s use, is not so smart.
Wow, I am about to hold the 1st ride in my CA city and went to STL to get more info. Wow, you guys are more backwoods republicans than I ever imagined.
In many places in Saint Louis, it is actually illegal to ride a bicycle on the sidewalk (Mainly in commercial districts). Bicycles are hazards for pedestrians on sidewalks since most ride too fast and don’t have any sort of bell or alerting device when they want to pass. I support bicyclers on the roads, but events like these just cause too much havoc and enrage drivers. Too often, good bicyclers are thrown in the same boat by people who mostly see bicyclers who swerve all over the road, don’t follow state and city regulations (Helmet laws, right side of the road, being at right most part of the road, obeying stop signs and street lights etc), and are all around douche bags. If you’re a driver and you notice a bicycler not following rules, report them to the authorities (You should do the same for reckless drivers). Whatever you do though, don’t try to knock them off their bike or run them over or throw things at them, it just makes everything worse. Ideally everyone should support the creation and use of dedicated bike lanes for bikers so that cars don’t have to deal with them.