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[ed_rex]

The First Naked Bike Ride

There isn't a cause out there (or so it seems) that doesn't have a dedicated, international 'Day' assigned to it. Typically, it is brought to my attention too late for me to say much about it, even if I do have something to say, and this years was no different.

That's right, 2011's 2011's Canadian version of the annual World Naked Bike Ride has come and gone, without either my notice or my participation.

If Wikipedia, as of July 2nd, 2011, is to be believed, the first Naked Bike Ride was held in Spain in 2001, in Spain. (I did not participate in that one, either.)

However, I have cycled naked, though I did so neither as a simple exhibitionist nor as one disguised as a protester making some arcane point.

As it happens, the last time I arranged my valuables just so on a bike's saddle, I did so fully prepared to do battle over an entirely different (though, arguably, just as questionable) point.

Click here to read about my childhood adventures as Naked Superhero — remarkably, they are Safe For Work!

Comments

[evilawyer]

A related aside: I can envision no road upon which it would be safe to bicycle ride naked. Even less so for off road biking.

Nor in shorts ...

[ed_rex]

Truth to tell, I don't think there's much more of a risk doing it naked than doing it in shorts and a t-shirt, which latter I do any time it's hot. It's probably a fool's comfort, but I take it anyway: there are a lot of folks who drive motorcycles wearing more or less the same thing.

Re: Nor in shorts ...

[evilawyer]

The bounce and bump is a thing that can't be avoided. But the chafe, man, the chafe!