In case you didn’t catch any of the abundant media coverage, there were World Naked Bike Ride protests in cities around the world last weekend. People of all ages and shapes and genders rode around with unconcealed bits to strike a blow against, well, the combustion of hydrocarbons. And also cyclist safety, which fortunately connects a bit more intuitively with nakedness.
We’ll go out on a limb and say it’s not quite a genius conceit, and it probably won’t move a lot of fertilizer salesmen in Tulsa or Wal-Mart clerks in Baton Rouge to give up their cars. But we won’t beat up on any of our cyclist friends, even the naked ones, because we support the basic goal here. Who can blame them for trying to capitalize on the fact that our little monkey brains are wired to find unending amusement in watching naked people? It’s also not their fault that PETA has ruined naked protesting forever.
Anyway we found the protests funny–laughing at? laughing with? unclear…–and compiled this video gallery. For the protection of our squeamish readers, we’ve ranked the videos roughly in order of viewability. Fair warning: it’s NSFW in the same way that a video of a shuffleboard tournament at a nudist colony might be. Which is to say, not remotely prurient — but try explaining that to some HR troll who catches you watching it.
Vids after the jump.
Vancouver:
Melbourne:
More Vancouver:
London:
Chicago–an impressive turnout in the Windy City [that doesn't read as a dirty pun does it? -Ed.]:
Toronto (a streetcar rolls past lasciviously in the first few seconds of this one…)
Portland:
Brighton, UK:
New York- No vid, but gallery over at Time Out NY
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