Get ready, Portland - nude cycling is back.

Organizers of the World Naked Bike Ride, the global event that draws some 10,000 nude cyclists to Portland every year, have announced that the 2016 ride will begin at Mt. Scott Park in southeast Portland.

The 11-acre park off S.E. Knight St. and S.E. 74th Ave. will be the gathering place for the throngs of naked riders on the evening of Saturday, June 25, who will then head off along an unannounced route through the city. The gathering will begin at 8 p.m., and the ride will start at 9.

It's the second year in a row the ride has started in southeast Portland. Last year it began at Colonel Summers Park off S.E. Belmont, drawing 10,100 people. In 2014, an impressive 10,000 showed up at Normandale Park in northeast Portland, while the event took over the southwest Park blocks around the Portland Art Museum in 2013, attracting 8,150 riders.

The ride, conceived in 2003 by Canadian activist Conrad Schmidt, is officially a protest - against our dependence on oil and for cyclist safety on the road. Participants also often strip to promote body positivity, or take up an unrelated cause of their own.

"I do think that it's important for people to realize that protests can be fun," Meghan Sinnott, an organizer of the ride, said in 2015. "I think that this one proves the point on that."

To help prepare yourself, whether you're riding or not, here's a look at our coverage of World Naked Bike Rides past:

-What it's like to bike nude at Portland's World Naked Bike Ride

-Thousands strip for Portland's Naked Bike Ride, but why do they do it?

-Naked Bike Ride to refocus on protesting

-Does Portland's Naked Bike Ride make the city safer for bicyclists?

-Portland's naked bike ride 'plagued' by accidents, alcohol? Not true, police say

-Judge clears nude bicyclist in Portland

--Jamie Hale | jhale@oregonian.com | @HaleJamesB