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Originally Posted by schlubby
No, I just go by what comes out on Flickr and YouTube, and on that basis there hasn’t been a Portland ride since about 2015 that I’d trade for any other event anywhere.
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All the rides before 2017 were great for the most part. I remember spotting some "non-enhanced" nude models at many, one of them became a pornstar (I know her personally and won't give her real name here). Since 2018 it just hasn't been the same as it used to be. Perhaps I got spoiled in seeing so many fully naked women and a great women to men ratio.
Still with 50,000-90,000 riders it's bound to be better than all the other rides with that many people. Although in the past few years the non-profit that runs it intentionally have been keeping the #'s down since it was getting way too big in their opinion.
Again, I live there and have been to every one since 2010 so I actually have "eyes on" experience unlike 99.99% of the people here. I'm hoping that when COVID is completely gone it will go back to the way it was before. Not sure though since some female friends of mine were a little weary of creepy guys taking pictures of them. It was always old, white guys too for some reason. Then again Portland is 75% white so that might not be surprising.