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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What two symbols are on the flag of Soviet Boulder?
Answer: Hammer and Bicycle
"They prefer to use yours."
Exactly right.
"Hippies.They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad."
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
With a GREAT deal of pain if it is a long ride.
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
what a bunch of A$$es, OMG...too gross.
So why weren't these people arrested?? IF they were praying or handing out Bibles, they probably would have been hauled off to jail immediately.
Naked Unwashed Protesters Ping
Isn't the Peoples' Republic of Boulder a fine place for so many of our aerospace and defense engineering offices? There, a prospective technical temp. can be interviewed by an emaciated AIDS patient and a lesbian psychologist at the same time (which scene has actually happened).
Boulder, a Colorado town stuck in the 60's since the 1950's.
Hey, I already saw the Naked SF riders on another post... I plan on using the pics to torture some Ca Liberal friends next time they start talking politics... since this was up in Boulder, I was hoping for more pics to extend the torture if necessary.... disappointing needless to say... (unless someone has a link like the one to the SF group.. heh heh heh....)
Why is it mainly fat and old men that do these things? Late life crisis???
Oh, for God's sake!!!! What is it about nudity that the leftists find so fascinating!!?? And, what has nude bike riding got to do with either oil prices or oil consumption??
Please tell me that is an assumption and not a knowledgable comment!
(teasing!)
Why didn't Hilliary join them?
Yep, that'll get the mullahs to stop hating us.
In 1990, I was at Wurtsmith AFB in Michigan, where I served in a B-52/KC-135 wing. We were told to expect a massive protest at the base on the Saturday that fell between the Hiroshima and Nagasaki anniversaries, because they had seen hundreds of anti-nuke folks in past years, and thousands on the 40th anniversary in 1945. IIRC, they were figuring on as many as 5,000 people, and they had the main gate of the base closed and cordoned off.
It rained that day. I counted 14 protestors. Here was a movement that claimed to believe they were saving their children from being vaporized (or worse) but they couldn't be bothered to protest if the weather was bad.
It was a great object lesson for me.
That explains the anger and grabbiness.
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