Posted on 06/18/2006 7:35:28 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
Dozens on Saturday were slathering sunscreen where the sun doesn't usually shine. Boulder residents participated in the third annual naked bike ride as part of World Naked Bike Ride, an international mass of cyclists who, each June, abandon their underwear to protest oil dependency while having some summertime fun.
“A guy (said) last night, ‘why protest if you don't get noticed,'” said Scot Colburn, 39, who moderates the group's email list.
Wearing nothing but a topaz bicycling helmet and New Balance shoes, Colburn said, “this is a good way to get noticed.”
The group - which “disorganizers” counted at 58 people, about three-quarters male - attracted applause, cheers, whistles and honks as they cruised down Pearl Street, through Eben G. Fine park and along the Boulder Creek path.
Locals lunching at outdoor cafes gaped, residents shopping in downtown stores ran outside to catch a glimpse, and groups of friends floating down Boulder Creek on inner tubes stopped dead in their tracks, standing up mid-water and craning their necks for a better glimpse.
Traffic slowed as drivers laughed, honked, and rolled down their windows to high-five the cyclists.
All across town bystanders captured the scene on their cell phone cameras.
One man in a red shirt, standing next to his sport utility vehicle on 18th and Pearl with a child in a stroller by his side, took a photo from his cell phone.
“Peace through naked cycling!” one cruiser yelled at the impromptu photographer.
“Right on!” the spectator responded.
Conspicuously missing from the mix were the police, who stopped the cyclists last year but did not issue any tickets.
No police officials stopped the nudists during the first two hours of their ride, which included a nude swim in Boulder Creek.
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I hate those hippies.
Does this mean that we can blame these fruitloops if we stop using mideast oil and the islamderthals all starve to death?
Nekkid Boulder Dash
They aren't naked. They are wearing shoes.
WHY is it always UGLY people doing naked protests.
The fully dressed bellygirl is far more inspiring than ugly naked people.
ACTIVATE THE CRAZY NAKED PEOPLE PING LIST!
So . . . liberalism really IS a mental disorder.
And what better way to say "I'm a freakin' idiot" is there than riding your bicycle naked down the middle of the street, I ask you?
I would take them more seriously if they held this event in mid-January, rather than mid-June.
Safety factor..shoes, shades and helmets.
and sun screen on their butt.
Liberalism backwards sounds like miserable.
No tellin what rode it last.
Just remember, there are some things you just can't "unsee."
Now, go and gouge your eyes out with a rusty shovel.
LOL, that was pretty horrible.
Oh why did I click on your link?
But where do they keep their wallets?
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