Bikers in the Buff to Protest NY Bike Lane Removal

[Elmore Furth]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/bike_war_paint_g7EizkFEZktV3IlNUJosQM

Bicyclists planning a Saturday protest are calling it their ''Freedom Ride'' -- free of clothing, that is. And they may be pedaling naked in a fierce snowstorm, if the forecast holds.

The removal of clothing is meant as a protest over the removal of a bike lane in Williamsburg, an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn.

The activists want to go topless in front of Hasidic residents who ''can't handle scantily clad women'' on wheels, bike messenger Heather Loop told a local newspaper earlier this week.

The newspaper, The Brooklyn Paper, suggested the scantily clad protesters might roll into the neighborhood at sundown Saturday -- just as families leave synagogue services on the Sabbath.


Bikers in the Buff to Protest NY Bike Lane Removal

[taterguy]

1. Despite the fact that I really enjoy nudity and cycling; they shouldn't be combined

I speak from experience.

Obviously.

[ohiosmith]

2. We all appreciate your kind consideration.

:hi:

[whistler162]

3. Chilling....

literaly!

Hot cocoa for all.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. I usually don't like it when oncoming vehicles have their high beams on...

[madmx19790]

5. Haha. nice

[TheMightyFavog]

6. A little cold for naked bike riding?

I'm still sore over missing out on the nude bike ride in London the day I went to the Imperial War Museum.

But then again, if I would have gone, I would have gotten all excited about seeing the nude bike ride only to discover that the vast majority of the riders were the kind of people I wouldn't want to see naked in the first place.

[surrealAmerican]

7. I love New Yorkers!

Great protest, assuming they don't kill themselves.

[rcrush]

8. Careful or they may end up like this guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUkiyBVytRQ

[Elmore Furth]

9. AP: Too Cold for Nude Protest, NYC Bikers Switch Gears

Apparently, the Hasid's were not impressed.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Bicyclists who planned to go topless to protest the removal of a New York City bike lane have switched gears. Some pinned plastic breasts over their jackets as they rolled into a snowstorm.

Dozens of protesters biked through an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn on Saturday.

Bike messenger Heather Loop organized the event. She says the lane was removed because the neighborhood's Hasidic Jews ''can't handle scantily clad women.''

The protesters planned to read through the streets without their tops, but wintry weather forced them to stay dressed.

The bikers' plastic tactics did not amuse faithful Hasids leaving synagogue services with their families on the Sabbath.


Too Cold for Nude Protest, NYC Bikers Switch Gears