Artists Against War - Naked Bike Ride, Vancouver (BC), 6 September

Artists Against War web site ^ | 9/1/03 | Unnamed Wingnut

[MikalM]

Why A Naked Bike Ride?

Every day we are bombarded with countless messages demanding our obedience to the corporate dictates of a consumption dependent society. Little regard is paid to the future of our planet and generations left with a legacy of waste and environmental contamination.

How many countless times each day do our media masters spin the same message:

Unless you buy this, you are not worthy.

Unless you look like this you should be ashamed.

By cruising naked down the spending frenzy capitals of the world, we are saying.

NO! ...a fancy new car is not a mark of distinction.

NO! ...I am not ugly just because I don't have the body of an anorexic model.

NO! ...I don't need to spend thousands of dollars on pretentious clothes to create a fake image.

Beauty and strength come from within, money can't buy true wealth, only empty images. If you are an event organiser, organising a Naked Bike Ride please feel free to contact us for any advice or assistance promoting your event.

Upcoming Rides

Ride #4

Robson street, Saturday Sept 6th

Meet at the Vancouver Art Gallery 8:30 pm

The history of the naked bike ride.

Ride 1: January 3rd
Commercial Drive Vancouver

Ride 2: April 3rd
Commercial Drive Vancouver

Ride 3: June 27th
Main Street Vancouver

Have you organized a naked bicycle riding event in your community? Send your photos to us at ninemonkeys@blaze.ca and we will include them on our site. We are working to build an international network, so please join us and spread the message.

Links:
Recommended website to visit: www.worklessparty.org

[gitmo]

Those pictures make me question once again the wisdom of the bar on boy's bikes.

[dighton]

By cruising naked down the spending frenzy capitals of the world, we are saying

YES! ...I am a brainless exhibitionist.

[MikalM]

I can't directly post the photos here, but here are some links:

Naked Bike Riders

More Naked Bike Riders

Still More Naked Bike Riders

[Arpege92]

I hope the seats on their bikes gets hot sitting in the sun....that'll give something to remember!

[cavtrooper21]

Check out the pics and then tell me if these nitwits would make it on the Death Ride...
Might get some blisters and more in some tender spots.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Artists = Brainless white people.

There is a great need to partition the country and isolate these idiots in a 'nation' of their own.

[Salman]

This is supposed to make us re-think our postition? Or attract fence-sitters?

[baltodog]

I gonna' start a fully clothed van ride in my 89 Club Wagon.
By doing this, the statement I'll be making is:

YES! ...a big van with a 351 is a mark of distinction.

YES! ...You are ugly.

YES! ...You need to spend thousands of dollars on pretentious clothes to create an image -- any image --just not the one in that photograph.

I'll do my first van ride tommorrow at 4:30 A.M.
I don't think it will make the papers because, just by coincedence, this will correspond with my daily commute to work.

[Husker24]

Dont the English and Canadians have anything else to do but run around naked and not brush their teeth.

[Husker24]

When they park their bikes, someone should armourall their seats. Imagine riding a bike naked then all of the sudden you slide off the back of the seat and your balls get caught between the back tire and the fork, putting the bike to an abrupt stop. This happend to me as a kid, and thank God i wasnt naked at the time.

[Chad Fairbanks]

I could never ride a bike naked again. Last time, something got caught in the rear tire spokes, and man, was it painful. Women think Childbirth hurts? Pa-shaw...

[The Brush]

Well I can certainly see how riding a bike naked will help to change the world... think of the pollution that could be illiminated if these same protestors jumped off a cliff naked!

[sd-joe]

>> "This is supposed to make us re-think our postition? Or attract fence-sitters?" <<

Naked fence-sitters.

Now there is a protest with untapped potential.

[Salman]

>> "This is supposed to make us re-think our postition? Or attract fence-sitters?" <<
Naked fence-sitters.
Now there is a protest with untapped potential.

OUCH!

[GATOR NAVY]

The funny thing is, I don't have a real problem with these statements:

"...a fancy new car is not a mark of distinction."

"...I am not ugly just because I don't have the body of an anorexic model."

"...I don't need to spend thousands of dollars on pretentious clothes to create a fake image."

But the difference between these people and me is I don't throw fits about the fact that lots of people think otherwise. You want to spend 50K on a car? 2K on a suit? 5K for plastic surgery? If it's your money, why should I care?

[atomic conspiracy]

More self-parody from moonbat pop-culturists. What's really going on with these people? See The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism by Thomas Frank

[MikalM]

Interesting essay! I've heard good things about that book; will have to give it a read.

[RonF]

Bicycle!

Bicycle!

Bicycle!

I love to ride my

Bicycle!

Bicycle!

Bicycle!

I love to ride my bicycle, I love to ride my bike. I love to ride my bicycle, I love to ride it day and night....

[RonF]

Gay as a tweety bird, and AIDS killed him, but he sure could sing.