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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:black'>For full article go to <a href="http://WorldStreets.org/">http://WorldStreets.org/</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>If you have narrow notions
about how people should get about in cities, World Streets is probably not the
place for you. We take a big house approach. It has to be like that. <span
style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Which means that every day here
brings its fair share of surprises, rattling in more often than not without
advance notice from many different places, different kinds of people, with a
huge span of ideas, values and concerns. Look what slipped through the door
late last night. New Mobility without frills.<o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:15.5pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span class=fullpost><b><span
style='font-size:15.5pt;color:#330000'>Reflections on the World Naked Bike Ride</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><span class=fullpost>-
by Charles Montgomery</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=fullpost><i>Portland, June 14, 2009</i></span><br>
<span class=fullpost>At midnight, near the rail yards of northwest Portland, a
drum chorus began a thunderous steam engine beat. Riders drifted out of the night
like schools of fish. Their eyes and their bicycles reflected the incandescent
glint of streetlamps. The skin of five thousand naked bodies glowed pale. A few
people wore shoes. Some even wore helmets. But for the most part, it was bare
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class=fullpost>light, and breasts too, and penises, humbled by the chill
breeze.</span><br>
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<span class=fullpost>My companions and I thought it would be amusing to witness
the World Naked Bike Ride. We had no intention of joining. But how can you
witness thousands of remarkably beautiful people hooting and howling and
chanting, seemingly overjoyed, not just by their own nakedness, but by the
sudden shock of freedom and camaraderie it offered--how can you move among such
a spectacle and not be compelled to rip off your own clothes, to hide them
under the roadside clover, and join the ride?</span><br>
<br>
<span class=fullpost>Reason fell away. I sheepishly <span style='color:black'>.
. . <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=fullpost><span style='font-family:Wingdings;
color:black'>à</span><span style='color:black'> Read more -- Click to <a
href="http://worldstreets.org/">http://WorldStreets.org</a></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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--<br>
Posted By Eric Britton to <a
href="http://newmobilityagenda.blogspot.com/2009/07/thinking-out-loud-about-world-naked.html">World
Streets</a> at 7/29/2009 0<span style='color:black'>6</span>:16:00 AM<o:p></o:p></p>
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