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Date: Saturday 7 June 2008
Time: Meet at 1pm, Ride at 2pm
Location: Freeride, 89 Barre St, Montpelier
News
- 27 May 2008: Front page of the Times Argus, baby!! Times Argus, May 27, 2008]
- 24 May 2008: T-Minus EXACTLY 2 weeks! 17 riders, 3 from out of state, and rumor has it Brattleboro's "pissed" that we got a Naked Bike Ride before they did! :-D Look for the upcoming exclusive in the Times Argus, coming soon...
- 4 May 2008: Some milestones & big news this weekend. First of all, we have three more riders officially signed up! This brings our current ridership to 15--that's FIVE TIMES our strength last year. And we have our first riders coming from out-of-state to participate. Very cool. Also coming from out-of-state we may potentially have an official event photographer and a couple of filmmakers interested in recording the event! Wow!!
- 28 Apr 2008: Phew! Good thing the City & the PD like us...because Fashion Week & SculptCycle--the two UNRELATED events with whom we must share our date, time, & location--officially hate us! Sheesh! Ah well... (If there's a bright side, it's that the odds of the Montpelier WNBR having to share the date with either of these events next year are hopefully slim to none.)
- 14 Apr 2008: Hooray! The City of Montpelier and the Police Department have officially approved our parade permit application! The updated route--the one that is currently posted on our Web site (and the one that rides around a concurrent but unrelated event on State Street)--is the one that has been signed-off on by the City. Date & time remain June 7, gather at 1pm & ride at 2pm. So for any of you who have been fence-sitting, worrying about doing something illegal, rest assured that if you ride in the Montpelier WNBR...you'll be fine! (Provided you do not do anything indecent, immodest, or immoral while riding naked.) Now's the time to sign up! Join the ride!
- 4 Apr 2008: To avoid a block of State Street that will be closed the same day for an unrelated event (between Elm & Main), we re-scout & re-map the route. Just a slight detour around the intersection of State and Main--ride time and everything else will remain the same. See our event's homepage to check out the changes.
- 3 Apr 2008: Tonight we got our twelfth official rider signed up, exactly QUADRUPLING our numbers from last year! Wow!
- 31 Mar 2008: Fashion Week does not want to "share the road" with the WNBR, so we will have to modify our route slightly in order to avoid their festivities. Check back to this page and to our event's homepage for the latest on the route. We have also learned that SculptCycle is holding an event downtown the same day too. We may see if there's a fit for collaboration there. Stay tuned!
- 26 Mar 2008: Eleven confirmed riders to date! (One more and we will have quadrupled our numbers from last year.) Don't forget to send an email to [email protected] if you are planning to ride in this event. The email can be anonymous; we're just looking for an approximate head-count.
- 24 Mar 2008: We spoke to Chief Facos on the phone who wants to make certain we know about the street closure for Fashion Week on the same day. He has left it up to us to work it out with the organizers of Fashion Week: whether we change the time, the route, or blend the events for one block. We are to keep him apprised of our solution. Montpelier PD is awesome! Chief Facos is very supportive of biking in general, and the department supports an active Bike Patrol unit. He only wants to remind us of Chapter 11, Section 11-700 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Montpelier: "INDECENT EXPOSURE. No person shall publicly make an indecent, immodest or immoral exhibition of his person..." And we also get a second verbal confirmation that the City's old "bicycle registration" law will not be enforced.
- 11 Mar 2008: Just received word that our WNBR coincides with Fashion Week, which itself mandates a street closure downtown. Of course we can ride around Fashion Week, but would rather ride through it. What a transformative experience this could be: celebrating beautiful clothed bodies and celebrating beautiful naked bodies!
- 10 Mar 2008: 10 confirmed riders to date, including our first participant signed up via email who is completely unknown to us. That's already over three times our force last year... and it's early yet. Keep spreading the word!
- 5 Mar 2008: Our website, MontpelierNakedBikeRide.org, goes live!
- 29 Feb 2008: We meet with Sgt Martel of Montpelier PD to disclose route and event details to the jurisdiction. We are asked to fill out a parade application – although the ride is not a parade – which is still pending. We get verbal confirmation that the police will not enforce the old bike licensing law still on the books in Montpelier. The sergeant also says that he will speak to Burlington PD to see how they handle their WNBR. This is great news because Burlington does such a nice job of things, with everybody having a safe ride, and the whole jurisdiction behind it. Sgt Martel was also encouraging of us to get the word out to media so that Montpelier PD wouldn't have to field so many 9-1-1 calls.
- 6 Feb 2008: Freeride bicycle co-op agrees to be the start and end point of the ride, providing our indoor disrobing and rerobing space. The decision of the steering committee is unanimous, and the mechanics will be riding themselves!
History
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 :-(
