I have cycled up several Alpine and Pyrennean peaks, as well as mountains in Vermont, Pennsylvania, California, Nevada and upstate New York. And I am not boasting when I say that I've done other things most people wouldn't try. As a result, some people say that I have courage.
If I do, it has its limits. You see, there's something I'm not quite ready to do yet: a naked bike ride.
Naked bike rides are held all over the world. However, one place I think I'd like to take such a ride is Portsmouth, England, which will host one on 24 May.
Portsmouth is on the south coast of England and is the only island city of the UK. According to some surveys, it has the largest percentage of LGBT people of any city in the country. And it's also considered, perhaps not coincidentally, as one of Albion's centers of environmental and "green" movements.
That last fact has a lot to do with the ride: Its organizers want to call attention to unsustainable fossil fuel use as well as other practices that are ruinous to our planet.
I love the idea although I'm not sure, exactly, of what a naked bike ride has to do with environmentalism. Maybe it has to do with riding in our natural state. Then again, the riders paint their bodies and wear things we don't bring with us into this world.
Anyway, I wish all the folks in Portsmouth a good ride!
N.B.: The photos in this post are from last year's Naked Ride in Portsmouth.
If I do, it has its limits. You see, there's something I'm not quite ready to do yet: a naked bike ride.
Naked bike rides are held all over the world. However, one place I think I'd like to take such a ride is Portsmouth, England, which will host one on 24 May.
Portsmouth is on the south coast of England and is the only island city of the UK. According to some surveys, it has the largest percentage of LGBT people of any city in the country. And it's also considered, perhaps not coincidentally, as one of Albion's centers of environmental and "green" movements.
That last fact has a lot to do with the ride: Its organizers want to call attention to unsustainable fossil fuel use as well as other practices that are ruinous to our planet.
I love the idea although I'm not sure, exactly, of what a naked bike ride has to do with environmentalism. Maybe it has to do with riding in our natural state. Then again, the riders paint their bodies and wear things we don't bring with us into this world.
Anyway, I wish all the folks in Portsmouth a good ride!
N.B.: The photos in this post are from last year's Naked Ride in Portsmouth.
