If you want to experience a special evening on a bicycle in Portland with thousands of like-minded folks, mark your calendar for July 26th. That’s the date of this year’s Portland World Naked Bike Ride (PDX WNBR), which will embark from Grant Park in Northeast Portland at 8:30 pm (come early for the full experience). It will also mark a comeback for this bare-as-you-dare ride, which took a year off in 2024. If you want to get to know the folks behind this legendary event and grab some official merchandise that supports the ride, mark your calendar for July 12th.
New this year, organizers will host a Hearts and Handlebars fundraiser on Saturday July 12th from 1:00 to 3:00 pm at Level Beer (5211 NE 148th Ave). The event will feature official ride merchandise and proceeds will go toward supporting the ride itself, which is a massive undertaking with dozens of volunteers, permits, porta-potties, and so on.
Last year in the absence of PDX WNBR, a different group organized WNBR PDX, which was also a large group naked ride. Their ride was much smaller than the original version and it focused on protesting Zenith Oil. According to The Oregonian, that ride will happen again this year and is set to roll out August 9th.
As climate disasters ravage our country while Trump and his cronies run roughshod over personal freedoms and bend to the will of Big Oil billionaires, it seems like a very relevant time for a mass protest where thousands of people ride bikes together naked. It should be an awesome event!
Organizers can really use help corking traffic. If that or any other part of this ride interests you from a volunteer standpoint, check out PDXWNBR.org/volunteer.
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The PDXWNBR ride also needs volunteer corkers 🙂
Please sign up at https://pdxwnbr.org/volunteer/
Explain again how this is different when the “street takeover” people stop traffic?
Or when the Gypsy Jokers do it during a motorcycle rally?
And for their poster they used the phrase “building bridges”?? Are they for the IBR and all its accompanying roads or is just an unfortunate word choice?
Regardless, looks like fun as always.
Using ”building bridges” as a metaphor for connecting disparate communities is quite common outside of the politics of our local infrastructure.
IBR has light rail and bike facilities, why would cyclists be opposed to it?
Is this some kind of weird isolationism / protectionism / xenophobia?
My understanding is that the added interchanges and miles of widened road on each side of the border would be antithetical to reducing dependence on cars and the construction process alone would be an overall negative to the environment. If that’s those isms you mentioned than so be it.
Given Portland and Oregon’s lack of progress in substantially lowering GHG emissions in the past decade can we please stop pretending that this city or state gives even a **** about the millions who are suffering and will die early deaths due to rapidly worsening global heating.
This event seems more about exhibitionism than actually accomplishing any real goals.
Have you ever been on this ride Matt P?
How do you go from what I wrote to what you say in this comment? It’s like you create nonexistent ideas just to knock them down. I didn’t say anything about the state or city caring about this issue. Your comment is like a non sequitur.
I was not responding to you, I was responding to the subtextual premise that our communities, in general, accept that “climate disaster[s are] ravaging this country”.