It’s billed as “the craziest, wildest, most insane even of the year,” but organizers of World Naked Bike Ride have thrown in a serious message to balance out that decadence, lest the powers that be discover that people are biking around the city starkers for no better reason than because it’s super fun.
We face automobile traffic with our naked bodies as the best way of defending our dignity and exposing the unique dangers faced by cyclists and pedestrians as well as the negative consequences we all face due to dependence on oil, and other forms of non-renewable energy.
My special correspondent/life model extraordinaire, Guy, documented his day of naked decadence at the Annual World Naked Bike Ride.
I asked Guy if he wasn’t concerned about serious chafing in his bejeweled kingdom, but he shrugged and insisted it was actually quite comfortable riding a bike naked, and the more sensitive participants are encouraged to cover their seats with a towel. Personally, I wouldn’t opt for anything less than goose down, but then I don’t foresee a day I would ever doff my chub camouflage to join the two wheelin’ nudies.
I guess I can vicariously enjoy the liberation that comes with shedding one’s inhibitions along with underwire bras.
Check out the trailer for the film by B.C.’s Conrad Schmidt about why he and hundreds of others around the world cycle naked once a year in cities around the world.
Check out the little promo video set to the appropriately chosen song, “Goin’ on a Naked Bike Ride,” by Dan and Kirsten Kaufman.
And here’s footage from Vancouver’s World Naked Bike Ride a few weeks back.
