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Mountain Biking in Kilts
I am on a mountain bike, wearing a short kilt over my biking shorts, peddling along the ocean floor on the Bay of Fundy in St. Andrews by the Sea, New Brunswick, Canada. No, this is not a dream — well, maybe it once was a dream of artist and mountain biker, Geoff Slater www.geoffslater.comwww.geoffslater.com who thought up the idea of biking in a kilt and his partner, trainer , Kurt Gumushel www.ripplefitness.cawww.ripplefitness.ca whose father is a tailor and made the kilts for the cyclists.
Says Kurt, “If you have to ask, you just don’t get it.” The kilts are the trademark of Ripple Fitness, an outfit run by Gumushel who takes private clients like me or groups on loaner Cannondale mountain bikes and loaner kilts for either easy, moderate, expert or theme rides. Want a ride which ends with …Â Details & Pictures
Several naked bicyclists were stopped by police and told to cover up Friday night on Capitol Hill during a World Naked Bike Ride event.
Officers told the cyclists they were in violation of indecent exposure laws. The riders were ordered to get dressed or risk prosecution, according to bike ride organizers.
But the bicyclists themselves say they were merely exercising their First Amendment rights and were carrying out Seattle’s longstanding naked cycling tradition …Â Details