Naked Bike Ride 2008

[Pedro the Fisherman]

Pedro, Portland actually has TWO separate rides. There is a MUCH smaller one the afternoon before the nighttime ride. I attended last year and it wasn't very good. THis year, I completely forgot about it but should have gone because the weather was better.

You can never have enough naked bike rides in my book! But that explains things. The way the photos had been put up, it looks like the daylight ones followed the night time shots.

Thankfully Freemont is in broad daylight, how is the weather shaping up in your neck of the woods Klondike?

[crispus]

Being added to even as we speak: BIG set (but sorry, smaller pictures only) by profrob64 at Flickr like this one

[Pedro the Fisherman]

Thanks crispus, she could 'blow my horn' any time she wants! If she does not want to write a slogan first, that is!

[Pedro the Fisherman]

Wow, these are the best shots yet, BUT I CANNOT SAVE THEM......bastard spaceball!!!

Check these out guys.....http://www.flickr.com/photos/profrob/

[crispus]

Pedro: Those are the ones I meant. To save, click on the link to his photostream page, pick a picture, and right-click (not left-click, or you get the larger version but as a spaceball!) and open "Properties" (down at the bottom). For the pictures from his photostream page it will give you a url that ends in "_m.jpg" and you simply remove the "_m" from the url to get the same size as you would see if you left-clicked the picture as described above. Unfortunately, after his first series of Chicago WNBR a couple years ago, profrob's pictures do not have the option to size up to the "_b.jpg" or "_o.jpg" versions. The larger size exists (big-time: if you click "More properties" at the lower right of the individual-picture page, you'll see the size of a typical one of these is 2112x2816!), but isn't available that I'm aware of.

Klondike: These are pc instructions; I understand you use Mac but you must have found a way to do the same thing. Would you be willing to post that technique too, so all the hip'n'happenin' folks out there (have I seen too many of those Mac vs. pc ads?) could also benefit? Thanks. Crispus

[stevin6]

Originally Posted by Pedro the Fisherman

Wow, these are the best shots yet, BUT I CANNOT SAVE THEM......bastard spaceball!!!

Check these out guys.....http://www.flickr.com/photos/profrob/

I hope you could download my uploaded pictures here, because i could download some. I apologise for any repost and unfortunately not all pics were/are available in 'big' or 'original' size.

[Klondike]

Originally Posted by crispus

Pedro: Those are the ones I meant. To save, click on the link to his photostream page, pick a picture, and right-click (not left-click, or you get the larger version but as a spaceball!) and open "Properties" (down at the bottom). For the pictures from his photostream page it will give you a url that ends in "_m.jpg" and you simply remove the "_m" from the url to get the same size as you would see if you left-clicked the picture as described above. Unfortunately, after his first series of Chicago WNBR a couple years ago, profrob's pictures do not have the option to size up to the "_b.jpg" or "_o.jpg" versions. The larger size exists (big-time: if you click "More properties" at the lower right of the individual-picture page, you'll see the size of a typical one of these is 2112x2816!), but isn't available that I'm aware of.

Klondike: These are pc instructions; I understand you use Mac but you must have found a way to do the same thing. Would you be willing to post that technique too, so all the hip'n'happenin' folks out there (have I seen too many of those Mac vs. pc ads?) could also benefit? Thanks. Crispus

This is one of the best WNBR galleries on this planet! A nighttime ride but with daytime bodypainting! I can screen save the normal sized pics on my Mac (using Grab) but it is time consuming (and pics get saved as TIFF files, not jpg).

Lets get these pics up - in whatever way we can -


Klondike

[Klondike]

I didn't see this cutie posted yet. From another Chicago album.

So Chicago gets 600-100 riders and an open door policy towards photography.

Portland gets 2500 riders but the photogs have to be discrete.

So Portland's RIDE blows Chicago's away, but Chicago's PICS blow Portland's away.

Fremont's bodypainting session has moved indoors this year, so I won't be able to cover it. Weather is shaping up to be the usual northwest June crappiness. Pedro, London's and Seattle's weather is sort of similar...

But the riders WILL ride! It will still be 58-65 degrees and I don't think its actually going to rain...

Klondike

[stevin6]

Last of Chicago pics.
Enjoy!!!!

If anybody is having bigger/original pics from these ones or other (Chicago)pics, please post them here!!!!

Big thanks in advance!!!

[stevin6]

I'm a bit curious about the amount of riders in the Chicago ride, because someone in a Dutch WNBR group posted the following message:

The fifth annual Chicago World Naked Bike Ride on Saturday June 14th 2008
was an overwhelming success, with an official participant count of 1700


I don't know what to believe right now, and if there were 1700 participants, there must be much more pics (coming out) even biggerones.