Philadelphia. Naked. Bike. Ride.

This Sunday 800 brave souls participated in the first ever Philadelphia Naked Bike Ride. Other cities have beat us to the punch with this one, riding naked (or as naked as they felt comfortable) to promote awareness for bike safety in our city streets.

I was all geared up to participate myself, but on my way to rehearsal Sunday morning the chain on my bike broke and I couldn't find a suitable replacement. So sad! Instead I helped my good buddies Amanda and Arizona get into their liquid latex body paint, cheered them on, and partied with them afterwards.


They decided to do superhero-esque face masks-- here I (very carefully) paint Amanda's on:

Arizona went with turquoise and yellow:

And I painted my own face in solidarity:

Amanda is the Naked Bike Avenger!

Our friend Dalice participated as well, dressing up as a Never Nude. (l-r: Dalice, Arizona, me, Amanda)

On the ride! Amanda and Arizona look so happy! (Don't you just love Arizona's little panda bear nose??)

After the ride, Amanda and Arizona got re-clothed and we met up to celebrate:

The after-party took place at the Fringe Festival Bar, a place we've partied before! (It's a bar set up just for the Philly Fringe Festival, and it's super duper fun!) We danced until our feet hurt and enjoyed all of the art installations at the bar:

We knew it was time to call it a night when the latex started to peel off:

Although I'm super bummed that I didn't get to actually ride, I had an absolutely WONDERFUL time. Next year I am determined to ride-- with lots of latex, of course!

My thanks to Arizona for all of these pictures.

Check out the news coverage (plus a slide show!) of the Philly Naked Bike Ride here.