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World Naked Bike Ride 2014
Jun. 8th, 2014 01:44 amWell, this time the ride started from a park only a mile or so from my place.Normandale Park if anybody wants to check it out.
I happened to wind up going by the park in the afternoon coming back from some errands.It was only 4 pm when I (by mistake, honest) got off the #77 a stop early. I checked things out (there's geocache in the park and I looked around the general area to get an idea of what I'd be in for when I swung by with the GPS. There were already 3 naked people hanging around.
I did *not* see signs of the angry neighbors the news last week had led me to expect.
Fay and I headed out around 7. When I left her at the bus stop, the bus was expected in 10 minutes. I had to stop and change batteries on my GPS somewhere between Fremont and Sandy. Even so, I beat Fay to the park.
It was pretty crowded by them. And got more crowded as time went on. Still didn't see any signs of disgruntled neighbors
Lot of gawkers though. Noted several parents with younger kids. Even one cute girl in a pink lace "skirt" (one of those poufy things like goes with a tutu). And that was *all* she was wearing. Didn't notice here footgear, if any.
Several guys in various sorts of drag. Including one it a cocunut shell bra and grass skirt.
Also noticed a cute T-girl. She was wearing a short pink skirt and I clocked her because she had a huge trans symbol on her shoulder in body paint. Didn't have my camera on me or I'd have asked to take a picture of the symbol.
The ride started (almost 30 minutes late) at around 9:30. We started at the corner of the park (NE 57th & Halsey) and headed up 57th to Sandy. That involved the worst uphiil climb on the ride.
At Sandy, we turned onto Alameda. We followed it to 37th ave. While riding it I though we were on several streets, but checking the track on my GPS later, I found that Alameda just turns a lot. Rather sharply at times.
At 37th, we went for a block then turned onto Bryce. From there, it was 32nd to Alberta, Alberta to Miississippi, an Mississippi to N. Graham. Which was the end of the ride.
Crowds were a lot thinner than in previous years, mostly (I suspect) because we were on streets that hadn't been used in previous years.
Also, about half the ride was on *very* residential streets (only Alberta and Mississippi are "commercial" type streets. I was also a lot closer to the front of the pack than previous years, so I'm sure that had an effect too.
A lot fewer catcalls than previous years. I didn't hear *any* negative comments about my body shape, though there were a few "hand slapper" type that pulled their hands back as I approached. But several stuck theirs out as I got close too.
In fact the worst thing I heard was some guy at me(?) to put my clothes on as I went past. I yelled back "No, you take yours off!"
Getting home took longer as there'd been some *significant* downhill on the last bit of the ride.
The route home the GPS picked had me making up most of that in *one* block. Yeesh.
But I got home just before midnight.
6.9 miles for the WNBR, 13.3 miles total (plus another quarter to half miles that didn't get counted because I forgot to reset the trip counter until I was changing the GPS batteries). Not bad at all.
I even got "warmed up" enough to pedal a lot faster than I normally do. Well, run at higher gears actually, there's no way I cann pedal "fast" my leg muscles just don't work that way.
I happened to wind up going by the park in the afternoon coming back from some errands.It was only 4 pm when I (by mistake, honest) got off the #77 a stop early. I checked things out (there's geocache in the park and I looked around the general area to get an idea of what I'd be in for when I swung by with the GPS. There were already 3 naked people hanging around.
I did *not* see signs of the angry neighbors the news last week had led me to expect.
Fay and I headed out around 7. When I left her at the bus stop, the bus was expected in 10 minutes. I had to stop and change batteries on my GPS somewhere between Fremont and Sandy. Even so, I beat Fay to the park.
It was pretty crowded by them. And got more crowded as time went on. Still didn't see any signs of disgruntled neighbors
Lot of gawkers though. Noted several parents with younger kids. Even one cute girl in a pink lace "skirt" (one of those poufy things like goes with a tutu). And that was *all* she was wearing. Didn't notice here footgear, if any.
Several guys in various sorts of drag. Including one it a cocunut shell bra and grass skirt.
Also noticed a cute T-girl. She was wearing a short pink skirt and I clocked her because she had a huge trans symbol on her shoulder in body paint. Didn't have my camera on me or I'd have asked to take a picture of the symbol.
The ride started (almost 30 minutes late) at around 9:30. We started at the corner of the park (NE 57th & Halsey) and headed up 57th to Sandy. That involved the worst uphiil climb on the ride.
At Sandy, we turned onto Alameda. We followed it to 37th ave. While riding it I though we were on several streets, but checking the track on my GPS later, I found that Alameda just turns a lot. Rather sharply at times.
At 37th, we went for a block then turned onto Bryce. From there, it was 32nd to Alberta, Alberta to Miississippi, an Mississippi to N. Graham. Which was the end of the ride.
Crowds were a lot thinner than in previous years, mostly (I suspect) because we were on streets that hadn't been used in previous years.
Also, about half the ride was on *very* residential streets (only Alberta and Mississippi are "commercial" type streets. I was also a lot closer to the front of the pack than previous years, so I'm sure that had an effect too.
A lot fewer catcalls than previous years. I didn't hear *any* negative comments about my body shape, though there were a few "hand slapper" type that pulled their hands back as I approached. But several stuck theirs out as I got close too.
In fact the worst thing I heard was some guy at me(?) to put my clothes on as I went past. I yelled back "No, you take yours off!"
Getting home took longer as there'd been some *significant* downhill on the last bit of the ride.
The route home the GPS picked had me making up most of that in *one* block. Yeesh.
But I got home just before midnight.
6.9 miles for the WNBR, 13.3 miles total (plus another quarter to half miles that didn't get counted because I forgot to reset the trip counter until I was changing the GPS batteries). Not bad at all.
I even got "warmed up" enough to pedal a lot faster than I normally do. Well, run at higher gears actually, there's no way I cann pedal "fast" my leg muscles just don't work that way.
