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GOLDENDALE, WA - Watch as zoobombers skate and minibike down Maryhill Loops Road the first paved road in the Paciifc Northwest. The road, built by Samuel Hill, is now a historic site with no auto traffic.

This video was produced by Billy Meiners (aka Billy the Kid) and RevPhil was greeted by many cheers at the Bike Porn Movie Night.

PORTLAND, OR - Here is a quick slice from the Bike Porn Fest and The Midnight Mystery ride from Friday June 8th, 2007. This video is does not include pornography. If you are looking for that the world wide web awaits. RevPhil's Bike Porn, however, did contain pornography. The "pornography of the bicycle" and all the permutations you might think that means, some you wouldn't expect, and some you, perhaps, we're not ready for.

Was it exploitive of bicycles? Yes, but they seemed to enjoy it. Without question, though, the audience was pleased.

In the next few weeks I will play a few selected clips from the showing but you really ought to encourage the bad reverend to re-screen it in Portland or take it on the road to your hometown.

BikePorn and the Midnight Mystery Ride were part of Pedalpalooza; Portland's 2+ weeks of bikey fun which currently runs through June 23rd. Stay tuned to CrankMyChain! for more Pedalpalooza videos!

REPUBLIC, WA - Michaeal Ambs' Project Pedal is underway. Hooray! Get all the latest and some great moving photography at the Project Pedal video blog. I'll be posting some of my favorites clips here at CrankMyChain! like this interview with Jack Denson. He is riding cross the United States in remembrance of wounded US soldiers (Wounded Warrior Project). Denson's site is here. Project Pedal looks it's shaping up to be a great documentary and it's already a great vlog!

PORTLAND, OR - Oregonian's Steve Woodward has hopped aboard today with multi-media coverage

of the WNBR. He's reporting 800 riders.

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STORY LINK

Riding cheek to cheek Not for naught nor for naughtiness do 800 cyclists

pedal naked, but rather to do the globe some good

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

STEVE WOODWARD

Naked was the fashion Saturday night, and bikes were the luxury vehicle of

choice.

About midnight, with only the glow of streetlights draping them, an

estimated 800 men and women pedaled madly across the Hawthorne Bridge into

downtown Portland, up Northwest 23rd Avenue, down West Burnside and back

into Southeast Portland in what has become an annual Portland tradition: the

World Naked Bike Ride.

Whooping and honking bicycle horns, the riders drew waves, cheers, laughter,

camera flashes and favorable comparisons to Portland's "other" parade that

very morning. Gawkers abandoned drinks and poured out of bars. Teenagers

leaned out of a white stretch limousine to offer riders high-fives.

According to reports from bikers, some spectators even joined the ragtag

parade, shedding clothes and hopping on their own bikes.

What's the occasion? The bare facts: Since 2004, Portland-area bicyclists

have participated in a global event in which riders showing more skin than

not ride in public to protest oil dependency. Their nakedness demonstrates

bicyclists' vulnerability to cars.

Last year, the Portland event drew about 500 "naked" bikers, the largest

such ride in North America, according to organizers.

"Portland is just a very great place," Erin Downs, a 17-year-old Northeast

Portland high-school student, said at the warehouse party after the ride.

"I want to be part of Portland," she said, dressed in blue hair, a blue

kerchief and two studded leather belts slung low. "This is the life, blood

and veins of Portland. If I didn't show up, how could I be a Portlander?""I expected more naked people," said Mick Arrell, a 19-year-old Southeast

Portland man with red, blue and green paint smeared randomly across his

chest and arms.

It's true. Many people stripped only as far as their skivvies.

"I didn't strip down at the request of my roommate," explained Jimmy

Schmierbach, 25, of Northeast Portland. "She said she didn't want to look at

my junk."

His roommate returned the favor, riding in her bra and panties.

Although she was wearing frilly orange underwear with blue trim when

interviewed, April ("like the month") Wiza said she was less modest during

the ride.

"All the good parts were showing," said the 27-year-old Southeast Portland

resident.

Wiza also displayed a poetic message for anyone behind her: "LESS GAS MORE

(rhymes with 'gas')." The hand-painted message included an arrow pointing

readers to her (rhymes with "gas").

On the blocked-off street outside the Organics To You warehouse party after

the ride, several men had added ties to their birthday suits. One woman wore

nothing on her chest but a red Superman logo. "Green power," declared a

man's back. One woman dressed provocatively in cheap black lingerie -- cheap

because it was painted on.

Unlike many riders, friends Eric Miller, Kyle Kelley and Robin Jackson were

fully dressed in something other than facial hair: Miller in natty beret;

Kelley in full-on pink-and-maroon ensemble, complete with pink, feathered

skateboarder's helmet; and Jackson in black fedora, dark pinstripes and

red-and-white checkered vest.

Miller launched his ride with a figurative fig leaf or two to preserve his

modesty.

"I started out not all the way," Miller said, "but I was feeling it." And,

apparently, if one is feeling it, there's naught to do but shed the remains

of one's modesty -- even in the middle of the Hawthorne Bridge.

"It's nice to let go," said Jackson, an erstwhile Naked Bike Rider and a

member, with Miller, of Portland's Marchfourth Marching Band.

Actually, Jackson was dressed during the ride, too.

"I was hanging out with my parents," he said sheepishly.

Steve Woodward: 503-294-5134; ste

PORTLAND, OR - For posterity ;) here is Channel Two's video coverage of the World Naked Bike Ride. I like that they got the key talking points in. Unfortunately, they don't show that many riders. There were clearly more than the "dozens" they mentioned based on other reports and videos.

Conrad's life in Portland's been pretty lucky so far: He got the job and maybe the girl. Now Conrad meets Zack. His luck is about to change.

PLANET EARTH - The northern hemisphere World Naked Bike Ride happens Saturday*. Find a ride near you at the WNBR Wiki. There will be a daytime and nighttime ride in Portland. Check out the Pedalpalooza Calendar for more PDX-NBR info.

This promotional music video is a remix of Dan and Kirsten Kaufman's 2006 Goin' On a Naked Bike Ride shot in Portland, Oregon. Check out some newly published shots and a funky take the song.

See this promo video on the big screen this Friday at Reverend Phil's Pornography of the Bicycle at 26th and SE Clinton (Clinton St Theater)

8:45pm - 10:45pm - the sexiest bicycle culture on earth.

Revphil: revphil at gmail daht comm, Portland Underground Film Festival

*Some northern hemisphere rides will be taking place on Friday 8 and Saturday 30 June 2007. See 2007 ride dates for more information. Spring 2008 ride dates in the southern hemisphere to be announced.

New York, NY - Here is a helmet cam street race video shot by Nick James on February 17th, 2007, during New York's infamous track bike only race. All footage on a Canon Optura 400 rigged to a helmet.

Check out the dude on the hi-wheeler riding on ice. Now that's bad ass!

Song is "Mari in Love" by The Pugs and is half the reason I am posting this video.

Enjoy!

PORTLAND, OR - Watch the Pedalpalooza 2007 promo video by Marc de Giere for Shift to Bikes.

Pedalpalooza starts Thursday and rolls along with two weeks of biketastic events.

We're talking bike tours, family rides, naked rides, womens rides, bombing runs, bridge breakfasts, donut crawls, dancing troupes, love letters, bike porn, tall bikes, small bikes, unicycles and trikes.

On Saturday, June 23rd it's wrapped up with the Multnomah County Bike Fair. Don't miss it because you can't!

One of the main objectives of this podcast is to persuade folks to commute with their bicycles more often.