Thousands of Naked Portland Bikers

By James Duncan Davidson on June 14, 2009 12:38 AM | 5 Comments
Tagged: bicycles, naked, portland

1AM on a Saturday night. I’m home puttering around the house. Working on the book. Sketching up a few logos. Nothing too exciting. And then, without warning, excitement shows up outside my window. People whooping and hollering. I look out and... this is what I see:

Thousands of bikers rolled by over the course of a half hour or so. Most of the bikers were naked. Some were partially naked. All were having fun.

I love this town. Frankly, I don’t think I have the, um, cojones to do something like this, but I’m glad other people do.

Photogeek details: Nikon D700, 1/50th@f/2.8, ISO 6400.

This is one of 187 blog posts on duncandavidson.com. If you care to read more, two posts I recommend are Dear Speakers, a set of thoughts for public speakers that I pulled together in March, 2009 and Tilting at the Windmill, One Last Time, a call to Flickr to include important EXIF and ITPC metadata in the photographs they provide to the public.

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hey! put the full res version of this up on flickr! wanna see if i can find myself in there.

biker

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Thanx. We love you, too. I hope you enjoyed the view of us riding by.

Bart

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Apparently, this is a thing that people do:

http://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org/index.php?title=Portland
http://bikeportland.org/2009/06/14/world-naked-bike-ride-was-it-good-for-you/

Ron HItchens

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Yeah, I like your town, too. Last time I visited, there was a spontaneous street run (March 08) with shopping cart "floats". Cops didn't wig out (which is what Seattle cops would have done).

Jim Gaynor

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It would be my cajones that would *keep* me from doing this!

Scott McMillin

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