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.