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See MontpelierNakedBikeRide.org for more information.

Next ride

Date: June 11, 2011.
Time: TBD.
Location: TBD.

News

• 28 Jan 2011: The 2011 Ride will take place on: Saturday, June 11th. SAVE THE DATE!

Media coverage

2009

• The Sacramento Bee, 16 Jun 2009: "What Sacramento Needs: A Naked Bike Ride?"
• The Gloucester County Times, 16 Jun 2009: "Jim Six: The human body is a temple--a lost temple"
• ABC12 News, 15 Jun 2009: "Bizarre News-Naked Biking"
• MSNBC, 15 Jun 2009: "World Naked Bike Ride"
• National Public Radio, 15 Jun 2009: "Naked Cyclists In Vermont Promote Bikes Over Cars"
• Fox44 News, 14 Jun 2009: "No law violated in naked biking through capital"
• The Burlington Free Press, 14 Jun 2009: "Nude bike ride breaks no laws"
• The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus, 14 Jun 2009: "Bike Ride draws nude riders, lookers-on"

History

2010

Date: Saturday 12 June 2010
Time: Gathered at 1pm, Rode at 2pm
Location: Started at Freeride bike co-op and traversed 2.25-mile loop around downtown
Number of Riders: 39 (37 + 2 inline skaters)
Duration: About 25 minutes
Weather: Low 60s & cloudy
Reception: Great reception all the way around from spectators. Police escort the whole way in a cruiser with the lights going! Very successful ride. Definitely established as an annual event!

2009

Date: Saturday 13 June 2009
Time: Gathered at 1pm, Rode at 2pm
Location: Started at Freeride bike co-op and traversed 3-mile loop around downtown
Number of Riders: 42 (40 + 1 inline skater + 1 skateboarder)
Duration: About 30 minutes
Weather: 74 degrees & partly cloudy
Reception: 100% positive! Many crowded street corners, a few hundred spectators, & lots of cheering. A peaceful, mellow, & successful ride. We'll be back in 2010...

2008

Date: Saturday 7 June 2008
Time: Gathered at 1pm, Rode at 2pm
Location: Started at Freeride bike co-op and traversed 3-mile loop around downtown
Number of Riders: 38 (37 + 1 inline skater)
Duration: About 30 minutes
Weather: Sunny and hot
Reception: Largely positive: hundreds & hundreds of cheering spectators and "amateur photographers" filled the sidewalks of Montpelier. Thanks for your support! Thanks too to the City of Montpelier and to our Montpelier Police Bike Patrol escort for such a successful ride, and we'll see you in 2009!

2007

Date: Saturday 9 June 2007
Time: Rode at 4pm
Location: Started at Hunger Mountain Co-op and traversed downtown
Number of Riders: 3
Duration: About 20 minutes
Weather: Sunny and warm
Reception: Largely positive: lots of thumbs-up, smiles and verbal encouragement. But lots of 9-1-1 calls too :-(

Photos

2010

• Ran3dy (flickr.com)
• DC_John (flickr.com)

Videos

2009

• World Naked Bike Ride, Montpelier VT, Main St., 6/13/2009 posted by 88r100rs (shot by fan on Main Street)
• World Naked Bike Ride 2009 - Montpelier, VT, USA posted by tcort (shot by fan on Elm Street)
• World Naked Bike Ride, Montpelier VT, Langdon St, 6/13/2009 posted by 88r100rs (shot by fan on Langdon Street)
• World Naked Bike Ride Montpelier Vermont USA posted by jendole (shot by a spectator at the State House, part 1)
• World Naked Bike Ride Montpelier Vermont USA posted by jendole (shot by a spectator at the State House, part 2)
• World Naked Bike Ride Montpelier Vermont USA posted by jendole (shot by a participant on Stonecutters Way)

2008

• World Naked bike ride Montpelier VT posted by 88r100rs (shot by fan on Langdon Street)
• World Naked Bike Ride 2008 - Montpelier Vermont USA posted by jendole (shot by rider on State Street)
• World Naked Bike Ride 2008 - Montpelier Vermont USA posted by jendole (shot by rider on Main Street)
• Overexposed in Vermont posted by orcamedia (Onion River Community Access Media's short documentary on the Montpelier Naked Bike Ride; also watch locally on public access TV, Channel 15).

Links

Website/s

• Montpelier Naked Bike Ride (montpeliernakedbikeride.org)
• Facebook (group page)

Related links

• Freeride bicycle co-op
• Overheard In Montpelier blog

Nearby rides

• WNBR Burlington, VT and WNBR Burlington, VT
• WNBR Montreal, QC
• WNBR Northampton, MA
• WNBR Albany, NY
• WNBR New York City, NY

Location information

• Google map of Montpelier VT 05602
• City of Montpelier
• Vermont state government site
• Wikipedia: Montpelier, Vermont
• Wikipedia: Vermont