Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe NEW YORK, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- A scheduled topless protest bike ride went forward in New York -- but due to the cold, snowy weather, it was tops-on instead, the ride's organizer said. Approximately 15 bicyclists rode Saturday through the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn to protest the city's removal of a bike lane, the New York Daily News reported. Advertisement "I would love to run another topless ride, if they don't put the bike lane back. But not in the wintertime," Heather Loop, a 27-year-old bike messenger, said. Loop said the bikers originally planned to protest topless during their "The Freedom Ride" because the main complaint for removing the bike lane on Bedford Avenue was scantily clad ladies. Members of Williamsburg's Orthodox Jewish community, said the issue was safety, not skin, the Daily News reported.
