Friday, March 07, 2008
NAKED PEACENIKS ON BIKES
If you live in Sydney, remain indoors:
Strip down and ride on for the environment this March.
No.
The next World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) in Australia will commence at high noon at the Archibald Fountain in Sydney’s Hyde Park on Saturday the 8th of March 2008 ...
The WNBR is an annual clothing-optional protest ride for naturism, environmentalism, peace and the rights of cyclists to use the road safely.
It’s safe to ride a bike naked? I bet none of these rebels declines to wear a helmet.
The ride is not a race and goes at an easy recreational pace. The only competition is how creatively bizarre participants can get with decorating their bodies using paint, slogans and bits of costume.
Competition is a right-wing construct. Fascists.
Though the dress code for the ride is “Go as bare as you dare!”, nudity is not compulsory. It is not a ride promoting overtly sexual behaviour in public.
The “Ride Promoting Overtly Sexual Behaviour in Public” will be held next weekend.
Violence stemming from wars fought over oil and road rage ...
Few people are aware of this, but Vietnam was fought over road rage.
“We face automobile traffic with our naked bodies as the best way of defending our dignity ... ”, reads the WNBR mission statement.
In their case, that may be true.
For more information, Website: http://australia.worldnakedbikeride.org/.
Do hit that link. It’s like The Worst Site of 1997 has risen from the dead.
(Via frollicking mole)
UPDATE. On a cyclist theme, here’s James Lileks:
Sign of the times: you hear about a bombing of a Times Square recruitment office, and you assume it’s nutjob antiwar folks, not Al Qaeda.