Something new this year: we’re using Storify, an embeddable social media aggregator, to round up some of our favorite social media chatter about Saturday’s naked ride — including a few from other WNBRS around the world.
Check below the fold for a selection of tweets, videos and photos from the event.
Best tweets from the 2013 World Naked Bike Ride
We’re trying something new this year: using Storify to round up some of our favorite social media chatter about last night’s big ride – including a few from around the world. Check it out.
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Ready to roll. #wnbr pic.twitter.com/Y1yK6lTvE2 -
Soooooo many naked people!! Ahhhhhh!!! #lookatyourownrisk #me #nakedbikeridepdx #wnbr instagram.com/p/aU4G3pmRLU/
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marching band. #wnbr instagram.com/p/aU4oZZSJD2/
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telly.com/SLSVOY – World Naked Bike Ride opening procession by LoveBomb Go-Go Marching Band! #wnbr
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Representing at Portland’s World Naked Bike Ride last night. #nakedbikeride #wnbr #portland… instagram.com/p/aV9f0REvmK/
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#wnbr instagram.com/p/aU2PKoyJAF/
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I really loved this LOVE bike #WNBR pic.twitter.com/bRqrc144fN -
World Naked Bike Ride, Mexico: 2000 people, 18 pictures at bit.ly/12zqxsN #WNBR
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Pics from the London World Naked Bike Ride #WNBR demotix.com/news/2134277/h…
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#WNBR #London Some gr8 pictures from freelance photographers bit.ly/16TJE20 @Demotix @WNBRLondon @BritishNaturism @theNaktivNook
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And then the naked bike ride happened. @ChiCritMass: 70* Great weather in Chicago for a bike ride. #WNBR #bikeCHI pic.twitter.com/NolW8XgEYi -
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Tweeting from my professional Twitter account about the World Naked Bike Ride in Portland = Oops. #WNBR
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I decided not to do the #WNBR. With the bike world and my professional world so overlapped, decided it might make future meetings awkward.
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The sub-cultural peacocking that is World Naked Bike Ride is possibly THE most ineffective advocacy on the planet. Hearts & minds lost #wnbr
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World Naked Bike Ride is citizens giggling at a sub-culture. No winning of hearts & minds. Not selling a mainstreaming of cycling. #wnbr
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Watched naked bike ride from the car. BAD PORTLANDER. Much more fun to participate. A tandem is in our future! #wnbr pic.twitter.com/JfIU43MKn0 -
Thank #portlandia for #wnbr. I love my life!
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Just saw #WNBR in PDX. Didn’t spot @maccoinnich or other pals but any night where a man tells me “take that dick out” is a win.
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Not digging this glow stick as cock ring phenomenon. #wnbr
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I took a bike ride with a lot of nice people last night. #wnbr instagram.com/p/aWLemUswm_/
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Thanks a billion @PdxWnbr for yet another amazing experience! If only every day was @SundayParkways and every night a #wnbr
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Slept through the whole thing #wnbr pic.twitter.com/WCZ7bRtM2G
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Naked Spartan was my costume, just a Spartan helmet and a smile, lol. Such a fun ride , thanks to all the folks who put this on, to all the particiapants and everyone coming out to support and enjoy a great event.
Great costume! Fellow Laconphile here. Glogjake@gmail.com
If I was on the fence about Mikael @copenhagenize before, I’m not now:
Ineffective advocacy? Lost opportunity for mainstream marketing/normalisation of cycling? Peacocking?
I’m glad my world doesn’t conform to his world view.
He might be right about most naked bike rides — rides that really flog the oil-dependence / bike-superiority message.
Portland’s, by nature of being fun-oriented, has managed to be more mainstream and inclusive. As a result, it ends up almost saying more about body-positivity than bicycling. Bicycles are just tools (like vacuums, Mikael) that many people use here (and this ride dupes the rest into pulling them out of the garage to join the fun).
If Danish culture was ever as hostile towards bicycles and the human body as our culture is today, I might be more inclined to care what Colville-Andersen thinks. The reality, though, is that Danes don’t know how to get out of the hole we’re in ’cause they’ve never been as far down it (and I’m not saying they were never in the auto-dominant hole. I’m just saying it wasn’t anywhere near as deep).
I disagree with Mikael too, respectfully. I’ve never ridden the WNBR because of boring-ass “advocacy”, and I think you’d be hard-pressed to find many people who do.
People do the WNBR for ONE reason and ONE reason only: HAPPYHAPPYJOYJOY!
I share your enthusiasm and I imagine you’re mostly being playful. I also think that it’s important to remember that while it’s true that the vast majority of people who ride do end up experiencing “HAPPYHAPPYJOYJOY” there are nearly as many reasons as to *why* people ride as there are participants. And it’s also true that for a substantial number of people, these reasons are only tangentially if at all related to happiness or joy.
I think I’m missing something. Did the tweets and links go poof?
“Check below the fold…”
checking….
nope. nothing there.
Seems to work for most of us, 9watts. Is javascript turned off? Maybe try another browser?
You were correct-thanks.
Computers are nothing like bicycles–so much to go wrong and you don’t even know it.
Copenhagenize’s assumption that there’s something political about the WNBR kind of makes me go “Huh?” I think I’ve paid about enough attention to him now.