Another Pointless Protest

In over 20 countries world-wide the annual World Naked Bike Ride has been held. My question is, "Why"?  What's the point of an exhibition of semi nude or totally nude bike riders exhibiting their assets and liabilities in full frontal and back view?  Seeing naked people is not exactly a novelty theses days. In fact, in most countries in the west one has to try hard not to see it in some venue or another, even on public streets.

But for every seemingly pointless event there must be a reason. According to the World Bike Ride web site the purpose of their naked bike ride is as follows:  "We face automobile traffic with our naked bodies as the best way of defending our dignity and exposing the unique dangers faced by cyclists and pedestrians as the negative consequences we all face due to dependence on oil, and non renewable energy."

Huh? Did they just claim that they are protesting bad drivers who threaten the when they bike? Well, I can't remember the many times one of those crazy bikers nearly drove into my car, or ignored traffic laws (Yes, they apply to bikers too) while enamored by the cell phone in which they biker gave rapt attention. I find bike riders more inconsiderate and dangerous than the fools who drive automobiles And the second part of the statement, the knock on fossil fuels, only fuels my disgust with the "save the planet" idiots whose very lives depend on the fossil fuels they have imagined to be evil.   But then, perhaps they bike nude to merely garner attention to themselves and their agendas.

No need to worry. I promise not to initiate a Naked Car Ride to protest the Naked Bikers. You can leave your blindfold at home.  Those naked bike rides are popular with the curious. Both my native New Orleans and now home city Portland have long had them. Wherever in the world obscenity laws allow them they are held for public amusement. I wonder though, if they bikers really have a cause (bike safety and "climate change") they take seriously, might they protest in a more serious way? Or is getting attention for a day the real reason? I wonder which is the "bare" truth.