Month: April 2023

The largest World Naked Bike Ride in the whole bike-ridin’ world has chosen the second weekend of August for this year’s event. The Portland, Oregon, ride has happened in late July for the past several years.

This will be the 20th running of the ride in PDX, one of the cities that participated in the inaugural ride in 2004. Even the COVID-19 pandemic did not prevent the event from occurring, although that summer it consisted of multiple small-group rides rather than the usual mass gathering. Recent iterations of the ride have seen as many as 10,000 riders, possibly more.

The Homepage of pdxwnbr.org has been updated with the scheduling information, although (as of this posting) several other of its pages have not been updated for a year or more. For last year’s ride, the requested that out-of-town riders not come into Portland just for the ride. That request no longer appears there; however, in the spirit of WNBR as a protest against fossil fuels and the resultant climate chaos, it’s best not to fly there or drive a personal vehicle for that purpose alone.

Also, the PDX organizers have expressed a desire to keep the ride to a manageable size and maintain the protest angle (sorry, can’t find a source for this) rather than merely having a party on wheels.

The ride also appears on the calendar for the expanded Pedalpalooza, aka Bike Summer, which lasts through June, July, and August. The organizers of PDX WNBR work in conjunction with local cycling advocacy group Bike Portland.

As of now, rides in 12 North American cities have dates selected, three of those in Canada. The New Orleans and Halifax rides do not have official FB Events or announcements on dedicated websites, but they both have (or will soon have) official flyers.

More than a dozen additional cities that have hosted rides in recent years have still not announced.

USA: Buffalo, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Madison, Milwaukee, Montpelier, New Orleans, and Saint Louis. San Francisco has a monthly ride scheduled for Earth Day, but not an official big ride for the summer months.

Canada: Halifax, Montreal, and Toronto.

México: ya nada.

Waiting for: Austin, Bellingham, Boston, CDMX, Columbus, Edmonton, Eugene, Guadalajara, Las Vegas, Ottawa, Philadelphia, Portland OR, Seattle, Vancouver.

WTF and Why TF Not: What’s up, Berkeley, Boulder, Burlington VT, Calgary, Denver, Ithaca NY (thx for the reminder, @YeshuahuXX2 on Twitter), Miami, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New Haven, New York, Victoria BC, Washington DC?

Any other cities in CANMEXUS that you’d think would have a ride but don’t? This includes cities where rides have taken place in the distant past, as well as cities that have never had an official WNBR.