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Date: Saturday 8 June 2013
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Officially, Portland has two naked rides (day time and night time ride) and a naked run. See the Pedalpalooza Calendar for details.
The big ride starts from and returns to a currently undetermined location. The ride will not start from the same spot it has in the last few years as the space is under construction. If you have a suggestion of a LARGE location that would be willing to host thousands of naked riders, please let us know!
Gathering (and dancing) will begin around 9pm and the ride kicks off at 10pm.
We had 5,000 riders last year and we expect even more this year.
There is no admission fee for the gathering or the ride. We will have some food vendors and a "safe" space fenced off with security and portapotties. We request that people not take photos in this space, unless they have the consent of the photographed individuals. See the Shift WNBR Info page for further details of this year's event, and Your First Naked Ride for a narrative of what a typical Portland-style WNBR is like.
Photos
2011
- Jonathan Maus (twitpic.com)
- Nancy Rommelmann (twitpic.com)
- bikeportland.org
- MagicSF.com
2010
- malecution (flickr.com)
- tgd1220 (flickr.com)
- WNBR Portland 2010 (flickr group)
Videos
2006
- YouTube: 'Going on a Naked Bike Ride' – both summer 2006 rides, with a specially composed song!
- Going on a Naked Bike Ride – alternative link on Crank My Chain blog
History
2009
The ride left the Pedalpalooza Kickoff Dance party at 2181 NW Nicolai Street, sent off by the Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers and looping on a course that went down burnside, briefly over to the east side, and back up 2nd street. Only about 1/3 of the riders made it to the east side before the ride accidentally looped onto itself and the last 2/3 of the riders did not make it over the bridge to the east side.
Nearly 5000 riders participated (by the fire marshal's estimate), and while there were a few injuries, everyone we're aware of recovered fully.
2008
The ride left the Pedalpalpooza Dance Party on Saturday 14 June 2008, 11:59pm, from the Track 7 warehouse at NW 30th and Industrial. The route was long and the pace was fast, which caused problems for some riders. In past years, we often split into multiple groups following different routes, but for some reason this year we all rode the same route.
Though we anticipated 1200-1500 riders, we actually got around 2000. I've been told that that's the official police estimate. It took roughly an hour for the stream of cyclists to pass, and that made some motorists very angry. (And many thousands of people very happy of course.) There was one incident in which a driver deliberately crushed a cyclist's bike.
2007
The party was in the Organics To You warehouse at the East end of the Hawthorne bridge. At the party we distributed about 820 wristbands, and nearly everybody went on the ride so we estimate 800 riders -- not counting people who saw us along the way and spontaneously stripped to ride with us.
The party was amazing, though the OLCC wasn't too thrilled with us. The planning in 2008 will need to be much more careful. The ride itself was chaotic as always. No arrests. One injury when a rider hit a pothole at high speed; he was walking the next day... slowly.
2006
Roughly 500 riders left the Pedalpalooza Dance Party at Disjecta (230 East Burnside Street though its moved since then) at 11:59pm for a long looping ride. Many people did multiple loops that night.
2005
The 2005 ride and post-ride party maxed out the generous location donated by Free Geek. We had about 170 riders.
2004
In 2004 the organization City Repair hosted the event and had a healthy turnout.
Links
Website/s
- WNBR Portland wiki page (this page!)
- Shift2Bikes.org – Pedalpalooza info
- Carfree Portland
Discussion group/s
- bikenakedpdx (Yahoo groups)
