Scooters Sunflowers Nudists Temp <POPULAR × Honest Review>

The heat is the great equalizer. As I learn from “Captain Kirk” (a retired librarian and the unofficial leader of the Bare-as-You-Dare Scooter Club ), the high is the catalyst.

Sometimes, you have to strip down to find out what really moves you. And sometimes, you just have to go 25 miles per hour to feel a breeze that actually saves your life. Scooters Sunflowers Nudists Temp

I’m standing at the edge of a gravel parking lot in rural Wisconsin, watching a man in his sixties zip past on a lime-green Vespa. He is wearing nothing but a pair of Tevas and a smile. Behind him, a sea of sunflowers stretches toward a hazy horizon, their massive heads tracking the sun like loyal disciples. The heat is the great equalizer

And the heat does care. It dictates the rules. By 11:00 AM, the pavement is too hot for bare feet, hence the Tevas. By noon, the plastic seats of the Vespas become miniature frying pans. I watch a woman named Diane drape a damp chamois cloth over her seat. “Secret trick,” she winks. “Evaporative cooling. Also keeps you from sticking to the vinyl.” And sometimes, you just have to go 25

At first, the scene feels like a surrealist painting. —the small-wheeled, underpowered cousins of motorcycles—putter along a dirt path that cuts through a ten-acre field of sunflowers . The bikes are decorated with streamers, baskets full of cold drinks, and in several cases, cleverly placed cardboard signs reading, "Eyes up here, please."