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Less Gas, More Ass!(World Naked Bike Ride Abandons Underwear To Protest Oil Dependency,Iraq War)
ColoradoDailyNews ^ | Saturday, June 17, 2006 8:57 PM MDT | PAULA PANT Colorado Daily Staff Writer

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at coloradodaily.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: bouldercreek; worldnakedbike
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To: fight_truth_decay
Here is another one...

What two symbols are on the flag of Soviet Boulder?

Answer: Hammer and Bicycle

61 posted on 06/18/2006 11:04:30 PM PDT by democrats_nightmare
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To: DesertDreamer

"They prefer to use yours."

Exactly right.


62 posted on 06/18/2006 11:04:43 PM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus (New tagline under construction . . .)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; AntiGovernment

"Hippies.They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad."


63 posted on 06/18/2006 11:05:24 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: fight_truth_decay
“Peace through naked cycling!” one cruiser yelled at the impromptu photographer.
As dumb as this is , atleast one of them has a sense of humor. Or maybe not.
64 posted on 06/18/2006 11:09:48 PM PDT by freedom moose (has de cultivar el que sembres)
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To: freedom moose
Liberals on the other hand, think nudity is funny. Minding your manners on the other hand, is uncool.

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")

65 posted on 06/18/2006 11:14:42 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Calpernia
How on earth does one ride a bike with no pants??!!!

With a GREAT deal of pain if it is a long ride.

66 posted on 06/18/2006 11:19:00 PM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: fight_truth_decay
I checked out the website... Its just porn with an environmentalist twist. Oh and as for the public performance in Norway, the police stated sex on a public stage is illegal. However, no one complained. Must be the enlightened Scandinavian sexual laissez-faire ethos.

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")

67 posted on 06/19/2006 12:38:08 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Alouette

what a bunch of A$$es, OMG...too gross.


68 posted on 06/19/2006 1:06:36 AM PDT by tina07 (In Memory of my Father - WWII Army Air Force Veteran)
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To: Alouette

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.


69 posted on 06/19/2006 2:09:04 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of "dependence on government"!)
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To: pax_et_bonum; humblegunner; Xenalyte; Bacon Man; Hap; Flyer

Naked Unwashed Protesters Ping


70 posted on 06/19/2006 2:22:52 AM PDT by Allegra (Mookie Sadr's Next!)
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To: fight_truth_decay

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).


71 posted on 06/19/2006 2:29:08 AM PDT by familyop (Essayons)
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To: fight_truth_decay

72 posted on 06/19/2006 2:29:29 AM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Count Petofi will not be denied!)
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To: democrats_nightmare
"Soviet Boulder is 50 square miles surrounded by reality ;-)"

Boulder, a Colorado town stuck in the 60's since the 1950's.

73 posted on 06/19/2006 3:08:51 AM PDT by Reo
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To: fight_truth_decay; All

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???


74 posted on 06/19/2006 3:20:05 AM PDT by schwing_wifey (Lily was mistaken.. The Borg are Swedish...Resistance is Futile.... PST +9hours)
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To: fight_truth_decay

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??


75 posted on 06/19/2006 3:40:29 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: DollyCali

Please tell me that is an assumption and not a knowledgable comment!



(teasing!)


76 posted on 06/19/2006 5:20:48 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: fight_truth_decay

Why didn't Hilliary join them?


77 posted on 06/19/2006 5:26:25 AM PDT by jetson
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To: fight_truth_decay
“Peace through naked cycling!” one cruiser yelled at the impromptu photographer.

Yep, that'll get the mullahs to stop hating us.

78 posted on 06/19/2006 5:39:02 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (My other car is a Herkimer Battle Jitney.)
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To: Izzy Dunne
I would take them more seriously if they held this event in mid-January, rather than mid-June.

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.

79 posted on 06/19/2006 5:47:31 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (My other car is a Herkimer Battle Jitney.)
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To: Saint Reagan
Liberals have little penises.

That explains the anger and grabbiness.

80 posted on 06/19/2006 5:51:33 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (My other car is a Herkimer Battle Jitney.)
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