Seeing pictures on the web is one way to participate, especially if the city one lives in does not have this kind of event. Bellingham hasn't allowed this type of event to take place.
It has erotic appeal and that's okay. Car companies have used sex to sell cars for years. Several years ago, I remember a car ad with a quote that went,
"The Shape You Want To Be In."
They were talking about some sleek sports car.
It really makes more sense to talk about "bicycling lifestyles" in this way. If you want to get into better shape, bicycling is a great thing.
More people should market bicycling in this way. People are motivated by something they can change in themselves, rather than necessarily changing the world.
Yes, changing the world is admirable, but the world is so large that one person's effort is hardly visible. If people ask, "where's the payoff?" it is easier to point out the health benefits, or possibly the money one can save not driving.
Then again, maybe people are too selfish. Being part of the process of changing the world should motivate folks; whether it does or not.
Anyway, pictures on the web are something one can enjoy now, with out having to wait until bicycling solves a big chunk of the world's environmental problems.
But, I might ask, as you watch, "don't become a couch potato, letting the computer do all the bicycling for you." It's just a thought.
Here are a few links that have been publicized in one of the Seattle WNBR sites. Hope these great sites remain on the web for a long time. My thanks and admiration to the folks who put them together.
Warning: many of the links go to nudity.
Update 2008
Search around in Flickr for 2008 wnbr or naked bike ride images. Especially good images come up for San Francisco. Some make you pass the "18 and over screen" also it may help to be a Flickr member. Flickr is a free photo sharing service. There's actually a lot of good stuff on Flickr.
Images by an excellent photographer. He also has a big web site with many other images of landscapes, cities and what ever.
2006 Images in Seattle.
Clothes Free TV did a real good video of the Seattle ride in 2005. People have posted it to at least one free Wiki site, last I knew.
I found these things in a whole bunch of web pages linked from
wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org.
Check out San Francisco's images.
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