Nudesicle

I've recently gotten into riding a bike around everywhere. Over the past few weeks, I've ridden more than I have since I was a teenager and it's been a blast and a great workout. I feel healthier and stronger - despite a few extra aches and bruises I've picked up (after a foolish ride on Santa Monica Blvd. before I had my sea legs back, I considered making myself a shirt saying "I survived rush hour on SMB and all I got was this bloody shirt...") In theory it should take me longer to get around than it would by car or by bus, but in Los Angeles traffic, I think it's a safe bet I beat other people going the same distance during rush hour gridlock from time to time.

Anyway, I'm not in shape to feel comfortable doing this yet, but I read through BBC News about a naked bike ride in Sussex England over the weekend where a mass of riders stripped down to ride to promote the use of pedal power. As I know more and more people getting their bikes out of storage due to gas prices, it's a great time and I would love to do something like that here. I mean, if World Naked Bike Ride can pull it off in supposedly sexually repressed England (and there is another event planned for London as well) it's a shame we aren't doing this in Hell A. It's not unprecedented either, according to their Wiki, there was one in LA in 2004. And San Francisco of course is in on it as well.

Who's down? Let's get this started. This would outdo a kamikaze run on the Santa Monica Freeway any day. I just need a new seat on my bike first - it kills my ass with my pants still on...