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Naked in the Streets: Video footage from the Philadelphia Naked Bike Ride
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Naked in the Streets: Video footage from the Philadelphia Naked Bike Ride
Filed Under: Bikes | Sporting Life
As promised, CP's Neal Santos was on the back of a tandem, shooting video of Sunday's first-ever Philadelphia Naked Bike Ride.
If you rode, head on over to the Philadelphia Naked Bike Ride Facebook and post your photos and get in on the commenting.
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[...] Coverage (actually quite the opposite) at The Philadelphia City Paper’s Staff Blog: THE CLOG. At the end of the night, the warrior is finally de-masked Posted by mandy4mck Filed in [...]
[...] towards the ladies. (Although, I urge all of you to try and stay covered, unless there’s another naked bike race I don’t know about.) So remember beer-drinking day? Well, that’s postponed until after [...]
I'm all for liberation, body acceptance, and the like, but stunts like this and critical mass do more harm than good for bicycle advocacy. While attempting to make the point that bicycles and bicycle commuting are normal (not fringe) activities and should be integrated into the mainstream (which I fully agree with - there's no better way to get around a city), acting just the opposite is an inane way to get the idea across. All you're doing is self-perpetuating your own marginalization while also pissing off motorists who have somewhere to go.
I completely disagree with Wear-a-pant-Tuesday's comment. I don't know if you rode in the ride--I did--and there were significantly more non-participant supporters than hecklers along the route. That fact alone is a testament of the success of the naked bike ride; furthering initiatives to lessen one's carbon footprint (via biking), popping the fashion bubble (via nudity) and creating and promoting a sense of community (via communal biking). The bikers did not hurt anyone by doing what they did, whereas many insouciant drivers continue to abuse the luxury of having a car--driving it when unnecessary--even when a bike is a much more viable alternative. It's in persistence, in this case, that acceptance is achieved. I don't see why bikers should concede the the impatience of many motorists, which is the cause of many accidents. All motorists have somewhere to go, but for many of them, they can't get there fast enough. And so, the naked bike ride is a token of traveling more salubriously and patiently. So what's wrong with that?
At 5:30 on a Sunday night during the middle of one the weekends which the cities residents escape to the shore??? I think they picked the perfect time to do this ride. It's once a year and if any driver was annoyed by this they should really get off the road before their rage kills someone.
Whoops! I meant I disagree with the comment posted by Nate. My bad Wear-a-pant-Tuesday.
IT WAS FUCKING AWSOM I HAD A WOODY THE WHOLE RIDE SCREW VIAGRA
I agree completely with Aaron in that "many insouciant drivers continue to abuse the luxury of having a car-driving it when unnecessary-even when a bike is a much more viable alternative." My issue is not with the goals of the ride, which I completely stand behind. I just doubt that most people witnessing the ride were thinking anything about bicycle advocacy. If they were supporting the ride, they were supporting the "happening," but were they thinking about the bike as a viable commuting vehicle? I hope so, but I doubt it. My issue is with bikes being presented as something special and out of the ordinary, when I think that in order for them to be accepted and respected on the road, they need to be seen as a completely normal element of life on the road. Maybe that's unrealistic? Whatevs - I'm glad that all had fun on the ride, and hope that it contributed positively to people's thoughts about bikes.
Ha, no worries Aaron. I got really confused there for a second :P Just for the record, I have no problem with naked biking. More power to the nude bikers!
Typical Philadelphia; barely any of them were naked. If this were NY or LA, or any capital in Europe everyone would be starkers! Half-assed, as usual Philly!
Let us know when those cities actually do it.
They already did, L.A. as early as 2004. http://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org/index.php?title=List_of_rides#United_States
Hey Ghost, half-assed or not I live in Honolulu and this town was destroyed by missionaries long ago. They're way too repressed to even entertain even the concept of the WNBR. As an inveterate cycle commuter I can only say, "I wish!" You bet I'd be there in Philly —and naked.
It was a hoot. It should be a once-a-month thing. Bicycles, nudity, freedom, exercise...a no-brainer.
well this is something you won't see everyday.Like who would be stupid like daaaa they must hav something over there brains
This is a very cheeky event, I am not sure what the purpose of the first ever Philadelphia Naked Bike Ride is but I support all riders. An event sure to have massive appeal. I would have joined but my wife does not like it when I show off my boobs in public, outdoing most women is not something she likes me to do very much. I could see this event happening one weekend a month. Ride a bike, ride it naked, why not.
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