If you’re the type of person who pedals through mid-sized American cities with nothing sitting between your bare ass and your bike seat, attention of any kind is obviously your aim. So it’s more than a little disingenuous that the organizer behind Seattle’s World Naked Bike Ride complained about cops stopping his nudie cyclists. Especially after they’d already biked balls-to-vinyl halfway across the city.On Friday night, World Naked organizer Daniel Johnson led 15 variously unclothed bike-lovers (and one guy in a dinosaur outfit) on a revealing ride meant to dramatize the vulnerability of cyclists in car-dominated cities. The fleshy crew went through Belltown, downtown, Pioneer Square and all the way up the Pike/Pine corridor without incident. It wasn’t until the exhibitionists reached Capitol Hill — crowded to the gills with Block Party hipsters and the cops paid to corral them — that anyone bothered to notice the dangly bits. No one was arrested. Things ended peaceably. And you probably wouldn’t have heard anything about the ride except that it ended in a perfect storm of penis jokes, since cops stopped it outside of the Dick’s on Broadway. (Tee-hee.)But that didn’t stop Johnson from making a fuss. Complaining that the stop violated the riders 1st Amendment rights.”This is the first time I’m aware of where SPD has stopped naked cyclists in Seattle without evidence of even one citizen complaint,” he fumed to The Seattle Times.Oh boo hoo. Clearly Johnson and his ilk are cut from the same cloth as those protesters who do everything in their power to get arrested, if only so that they may bitch about their detainment to the media. The difference being, of course, that these cyclists choose not to wear that cloth.
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