World Naked Bike Ride

Poststructural Pub
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I saw the World Naked Bike Ride by chance in San Francisco last weekend. It was quite funny actually. There was a group of about 100 people, mostly on bikes. There was one fellow on roller skates wearing a top hat.

There are so many prudes in the U.S. - but in San Francisco everyone was pointing, laughing, and smiling as far as I could tell. We need more cities like San Francisco.

A friend, her daughter, and I went to SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

We walked down the street for lunch. On the way back to SFMOMA I was taking a photo of an old church with a new building behind it.

That’s when we saw the cyclists and the skater (I blurred the part that might offend some people).

Here’s a pic of my friend’s daughter in the museum.

Sorry about the quality, I was just using a camera in a Treo phone.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/10/europe/EU-GEN-Britain-Nude-Bikers.php

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How do men protect their penises while riding bicycles with no clothes on? It seems like that would hurt.

I like those pictures. I want to visit a museum.

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I don’t think there is a way… except loads of caution. :laughing:

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I didn’t see any safety equipment. But I imagine goggles or sunglasses would work. They work for keeping the bugs out of your eyes.

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Oh. I wouldn’t want to hit a bump if I were one of those guys. Even a couple layers of clothes (underwear, pants) provides a certain amount of protection. And I wonder if it’s possible to get sunburn on one’s penis? That would hurt.

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maybe a little helmet?..

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Like they wore on the Death Star?

djm

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I don’t know about you guys, but if I were riding naked in a naked bike ride with a bunch of women who were also riding naked in a naked bike ride, I don’t think it would be in the way where it could get pinched on the seat or bumped on the cross bar. I would, however, worry about sunburn, but I think I’ve got the answer to that in the picture below. But where, I ask you, where where am I going to put the water bottle?



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This is San Francisco remember. :laughing:

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Gonzo is Kansas…remember :wink:

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exactly.

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Protection?

I dunno… just tuck him in my sock?

:smiley:

Gonzo I sure hope you mean to use tape or something with them there little umbrellies.

Not sure I’d favor the obvious method of adhesion. :astonished:

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Please do not tell me this thing one of those “No Grils Aloud” kind of functions. That’s just not right. I looked up the WNBR in wikipedia, and it is coed.

Besides, is it not true that when one being is ogling the nakedidity of another being, it is not so much the sexual orientation of the being being ogled (the oglee) that matters as much as the sexual orientation of the being doing the ogling (ogler)? Concupiscence is, after all, in the eye of the beholder.

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not at all…

it’s just that being naked is , ah, different in different places!

Freemont, Washington has a Solstice Parade that has naked bicyclists.

Kansas?

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It’s called urethral sounding and it doesn’t hurt if you do it right. In fact, I’ve heard it can be pleasurable.

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the penis can take care of itself, it’s the testicles that would need protection.

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I don’t care what it’s called or how it sounds - I’m not interested. :boggle:

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It’s likely highly recommended to leave the saddle on the post. :smiley:

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Freemont…you’re thinkin’ Capitol Hill :astonished:

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nekkid on the bike saddle?? Yuk. If I need that kind of probing, I’ll go to my doctor. Reluctantly. Though I do have a woman doctor, so it’s not so bad… I have been riding my mountain bike for almost 20 years and never once have I wanted to ride without the pants with the built-in pad thing..A truly great invention, that…