A group calling itself World Naked Bike Ride Portland plans to ride in protest at the Trump administration’s announcement that it is sending 200 federalised National Guard troops to “protect” its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities in the American city.
World Naked Bike Ride Portland, an offshoot of the official World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) group that organises clothes-optional rides all over the world, was initially set up to protest against the oil company Zenith. It has posted on Instagram that protest “plans are being worked on”, with another update saying that the ride is set to take place “…in the next couple of weeks on a weekend, mid/late afternoon” depending on weather conditions.
“We’re meeting and talking with other local protest groups about we all feel this event should be”, said World Naked Bike Ride Portland.
“We’re watching the weather and expecting the ride too happen in the next couple of weeks on a weekend, mid/late afternoon.
“We do not collaborate with the police, not for help leading or corking.
“It’s your own personal choice how much or little clothing you wear.”
The Portland group attracts thousands of riders each year, and it will be their third this year if this protest does go ahead.
This all follows Trump’s announcement that he is sending “all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists,” on his social media platform, Truth Social.
President Trump claimed troops had been deployed on Wednesday of this week, although this has been disputed by Portland’s police chief, whole told CNN: “We believe they’ll probably be deployed in the coming days, but they’re not in place right now. They’re receiving some additional training.”
Democrats in the state of Oregon have been attempting to limit how the National Guard can be deployed in the area, strongly opposing Trump’s claims that Portland is “war-ravaged” amongst other fanciful accusations.
The Governor of Oregon, the Attorney General and the Mayor of Portland believe that President Trump should not have the power to deploy up to 200 members of the Oregon National Guard, and have filed both a lawsuit and a restraining order against his administration. A hearing is set for later today.
A narrative has emerged from team Trump whereby months-long protests around the ICE detention facility in Portland have been labelled as “violent riots” tied to “Antifa domestic terrorists” by Trump himself.
The Trump administration claims the deployment of troops is part of a wider effort to crackdown on crime and restore law and order in Portland and the state of Oregon, as well as other Democrat-run cities such as Memphis, Chicago and Los Angeles. Many city and state officials have responded furiously, Oregon included.
Oregon Governor, Tina Kotek, said last week: “There is no insurrection. There is no threat to national security, and there is no need for military troops in our major city.”
Will a sea of cyclists sans clothing compel Trump to change tack? After recently cancelling grants for bike lanes in the US, and building a reputation for routinely ignoring the authority of individual state governments and legislators, it’s not looking likely – but nevertheless, World Naked Bike Ride Portland will be hoping that laying bare their feelings will send out a strong message…
35 thoughts on “‘Emergency’ World Naked Bike Ride planned for US city of Portland in response to Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and claims of “violent riots” around immigration row”
Protesting against crime
Protesting against crime-fighting in the city. Sometimes you can’t fix stupid. If you want the crime cleared up, you dont do it with ‘safe-spaces’ for junkies to shoot up and other stupid social experiments, all these dem approaches failed. People want the crime gone. You should be celebtrating the government actually investing money and time to fight crime with gusto, I wish they’d do it in London and get the knives and drugs off the streets. Protesting this is beyond stupid. Seems they’ve forgot their brains, not their clothes.
You are Travis Bickle and
You are Travis Bickle and ICMFP!
chrisonabike wrote:
Acronym noted – should save me quite a bit of typing 😆
It’s the wrong type of free
It’s the wrong type of free speech again! (The non-violent kind).
What the US needs is to really get tough on all these criminal cyclists (especially any disgusting perverts who’ve removed all their normal clothes and are wearing lycra).
They should take a lesson from the UK’s resurgent right-wing party, Labour * and bring in some serious new vexatious cycling laws ** to protect children in passing cars, and the tempers of their drivers. We know holding people up leads to violence…
* Is this right?
** Initially proposed by that noted anti-authoritarian and protector of individual liberties Ian Duncan Smith (is this right?!)
Don’t tell me, all the people
Don’t tell me, all the people committing crime coincidentally have brown skin?
yupiteru wrote:
The main criminal seems to be a weird shade of orange to me!
Backladder wrote:
You’re right. I also wish
You’re right. I also wish Musk and Tommy Robinson would stage a coup, commandeer the army and send them into central London. And Birmingham. And Chipping Norton. No more knives or drugs or unruly bike rides. But loads of Teslas. That’d teach those bleeding-heart liberal apologists.
alexuk wrote:
This would be the government that last time it was in power totally ignored rioters attacking the Capitol and threatening to hang the VP?
And then pardoned them.
And then pardoned them.
Backladder wrote:
But but they were patriots, defending their
losing autocratcountry! Sure, some were violent, racist patriots, but (checks notes) there were a good people on both sides…chrisonabike wrote:
Patriots…that sounds familiar…
…you’re a gas, please keep
…you’re a gas, please keep posting.
He ain’t even the full Nigel.
He ain’t even the full Nigel..!
London is a pretty safe city
London is a pretty safe city and getting safer. You might want to check some actual facts. NYC is one of the safest big cities in America these days yet has 3-4x as many murders as London. Look it up.
Echo-chamber at its finest.
Echo-chamber at its finest. You take exception to someone supporting a fight against crime?
This is what happens when all you read are personal attack hit-pieces and deflections from activisit non-journalists in Guardian and Guardian-like rags who are addicted to attacking anyone who is not a clone of themselves and their own opinions. What would you prefer, more crime? makes me weep at the stupidty. My words are true, you can’t fix stupid.
Oh I think we all support a
Oh I think we all support a fight against crime. – that’s what we have a police force for. And Batman and Robin.
Deploying troops to Portland
Deploying troops to Portland is nothing to do with fighting crime (Portland recently rated one of the fifty safest cities in the USA and crime has fallen dramatically there in 2025, including 50% drop in homicide (including two months with zero homicides), 17% drop in violent crime, 12% drop in sexual crimes) and everything to do with suppressing long-running peaceful demonstrations against ICE and Trump’s ongoing attempts to portray all major cities with Democratic administrations as lawless.
You’re wrong, you can fix stupid – you can just stop posting it.
Bringing men, mostly men,
Bringing men, mostly men, trained to kill into a dense urban environment. Hmmm, anyone seen a problem?
Fighting men, paid a pittance, into a city where few of them come from, who won’t understand the tensions inherent in that city or of community relations. Not that the cops always do, but they live and work there every day. And the police have the added advantage of being fully trained in law enforcement and experience of it.
There will be shootings, and those shootings if they involve numbers will cause riots, and if the riots escalate the full army will be sent in. Almost as if we’re planned…
Hmmm,
Hmmm,
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/04/us-military-portland-oregon-trump-administration
God almighty. Literally the
God almighty. Literally the direct equivalent of sending the Parachute Regiment in to police London because of the Palestine Action demonstrations. I think our Northern Ireland experience offers a pretty good demonstration of what happens when you try to use the army as a police force…
One of Trump’s own appointee
One of Trump’s own appointee judges has now blocked deployment on the grounds that it would make the situation worse. I wonder if alexuk would like to tell us if a Trump-appointed federal judge is also someone who only reads “personal attack hit-pieces and deflections from activisit non-journalists in Guardian and Guardian-like rags who are addicted to attacking anyone who is not a clone of themselves and their own opinions.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/05/judge-blocks-trump-administration-from-deploying-national-guard-to-portland
Third in homicides per head
Third in homicides per head in the US, apparently – Lake District for me for holidays again next year I reckon…
Yes, it’s pretty quiet and safe up here, as long as you don’t try Broad Stand in any but the dryest conditions
Thought tehy might have
Thought tehy might have learned from the Kent State shootings in 1970. Sending tropps into a civilian area never ends well.
Now a really dangerous city
Now a really dangerous city in the US is St Louis. I was there earlier this year and will be happy never to go again. Portland did not strike me as dangerous when I visited last time, though it’s been a while.
Third in homicides per head
Third in homicides per head in the US, apparently – Lake District for me for holidays again next year I reckon…
I’ve spent significant time
I’ve spent significant time in Chicago, St. Louis, and even Portland, including walking or cycling around alone, at night.
The statistics are misleading. Yes, there is crime, but those rates simply don’t apply if you stay away from certain areas, (e.g. Chicago’s south side, East St. Louis) and aren’t there dealing with people doing illegal things.
Even encampments are pretty safe to walk or cycle through at night as an average sized adult male.
Fair enough, I can relate to
Fair enough, I can relate to that living in a part of London that many outsiders believe is a crime-ridden hellhole but, as per your description, unless you are actually involved in crime is really a rather splendid place to be.
Reminds me of the Birmingham
Reminds me of the Birmingham (UK) “Islamic no-go zone”:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-34317107
… which even the fairly supine regulator Ofcom said was not on.
Of course the same has come back, now served to you by … the Conservatives (trying to out-edgelord Reform?)
First Paul Scully – who then backed away:
https://hyphenonline.com/2024/04/29/the-enduring-myth-of-the-no-go-zone-tower-hamlets-london-sparkhill-birmingham/
And now Robert Jenrick boldly going forth and doubling down with “don’t see any white faces”…
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/06/robert-jenrick-complained-of-not-seeing-another-white-face-in-handsworth-birmingham
TBH sounds like a recommendation – to reuse Michael Moore’s gag almost everyone who has ever given me a headache in life has like myself been white…
Surely “non-journalists” are
Surely “non-journalists” are the sort of people who sit in their bedrooms all day scouring the internet and subsequently posting irate nonsense rather than visiting places, speaking to people and checking the facts?
Are you the new village idiot
Are you the new village idiot?
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The verb “corking” in conjunction with “World Naked Bike Ride” conjures up some truly alarming images.
Better than “puncture”?
Better than “puncture”?
Boob-tubeless?
Boob-tubeless?
Hookless brassieres.
Hookless brassieres.