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World Naked Bike Ride London - courtesy Tom Amos.JPGRoutes revealed for next month's World Naked Bike Ride in London
The route has been announced for next month’s London leg of the World Naked Bike Ride, the fourteenth time the city has welcomed the event, with organisers promising that it will be “bigger than ever” with more than 1,000 riders expected to take part.
The event, founded in 2004 and with a dress code of “bare as you dare,” seeks to highlight the fragility of the human body, as well as acting as a protest against oil dependency and car-centric transport policies.
There will be seven start points to the ride on Saturday 10 June, four of those in the centre of the capital at Hyde Park, Kings’ Cross, Regent’s Park and Tower Hill.
The other three start points are all south of the Thames, with a feeder rider from Kew Bridge joining up with other riders at Clapham Junction, and another ride heading into the city centre from West Norwood.
Full details of the start points are:
Tower Hill, 14:30 assembly, 15:00 departure, Trinity Square Gardens
King’s Cross, 14:30 assembly, 15:00 departure, Lewis Cubitt Park
West Norwood, 11:00 body painting, 14:00 assembly, 14:30 departure, Norwood Rd
Hyde Park, 14:30 assembly, 15:00 departure, North Carriage Drive
Regents Park, 14:30 assembly, 15:00 departure, Cumberland Green
Clapham Junction, 14:30 assembly, 14:45 departure, Grant Road
Kew Bridge, timing to be confirmed.
Timings are subject to change and will be updated if necessary on the World Naked Bike Ride London Facebook page, with the event expected to finish between 1730 and 1800.
The rides are scheduled to converge at Westminster Bridge, and afterwards, there will be an optional return ride to West Norwood, where a barbecue will be held, with all participants welcome.
Organisers stress that the ride has been cleared in advance with the police, adding that “contrary to popular belief, since the Sexual Offences Act 2003, in England nakedness is not illegal unless you are doing it intending to alarm or distress someone – which clearly is not the intention of WNBR.”
World Naked Bike Rides are now held in more than 120 locations globally, and besides London will take place in the coming months in the following towns and cities throughout Great Britain:
Scheduled WNBR Rides in the UK
Brighton Sunday, 11 June 2017
Bristol Sunday, 4 June 2017
Cambridge Saturday, 17 June 2017
Canterbury Saturday, 27 May 2017
Cardiff Saturday, 17 June 2017
Chelmsford Saturday, 24 June 2017
Clacton Saturday, 15 July 2017
Colchester Saturday, 8 July 2017
Edinburgh Saturday, 10 June 2017
Exeter Saturday, 24 June 2017
Folkestone Saturday, 1 July 2017
Manchester Friday, 9 June 2017
Newcastle-Gateshead Saturday, 1 July 2017
Portsmouth Sunday, 9 July 2017
Southampton Friday, 2 June 2017
Worthing Sunday, 2 July 2017
York Sunday, 25 June 2017
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Looking at the accompanying photo I couldn't help but wonder if the male wasn't a regular cyclist at all, merely a "player" who was using the event to his advantage by hiring a bike for the day to widen his opportunities (no that's not a euphanism!)
If you're concerned about hiring a Boris bike which may have been ridden nude, then you're not going to be happy if someone ever explains the concept of a public toilet to you.
If you sit on a toilet the same way you sit on a bike saddle you're doing it wrong.
Anyway, this is immaterial as since the government has started squeezing the councils the only ones I see are locked up.
I have often wondered what those large cutaways were in some modern saddles
I'll spare the people of Bristol the horror of seeing me without lycra etc as I'm working but will be commuting on my bike.
Yeah, seeing me -in- Lycra is bad enough as it is.
Balloons seem to have taken over the role of tiny little wisps of gauze these days. Of course, you don't get gauze floating around in the air these days, not like in Renaissance times. What's the world coming to?
see 5:14
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BVvZTHCDm-s
If, like the guy in the picture, you are using a hire bike, use a plastic bag or similar over the saddle.
Pleeeeaaaase!
It does seem a lot of people in that picture are using the Bikes Formerly Known As Boris. Did they not want to use their own bikes when riding commando?
There's one in seattle every year. It's brilliant.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FCzJ98gW8hs
That photograph is False Advertising...I've seen Naked Rides and trust me they don't look like those two...
*Shudder*
I keep returning to that pic. Just for research purposes, of course...
I remember getting caught up in one of these in London when Nocturne (or a similar event) was on the same afternoon. Being in skin-tight club kit when all around are naked was an interesting experience. And put me off Boris Bikes for life. *Shudder*
Events like these don't help cycling's credibility.
What other group that wants to be taken seriously, and has legitimate concerns, stages clownish stunts like this?
Again this stuff about 'the cycling community' as though I have some responsibility for how people at the other end of the country choose to behave, merely because we use the same form of transport.
Were you at the cycling AGM? These rides were discussed at length. Support for continued participation only passed by a few votes. Now we're all forced to join in for another year. If you really cared so much about this issue you would have come along and voted it down
Aside from missing the point of these rides, perhaps you need to pull the stIck out of your arse. Cycling comprises all sorts.
Unless removing your shorts to do so is a problem..
What is this "cycling community " of which you speak?
I'll be doing one around the garden city on the day, see how many loops of the town centre I can get in before plod arrive. Seeing as we don't have a police station open to the public for about 9-10 miles I think I can get away with it for half the day (or until i get bored) and in any case it'' be good to piss off the usual town centre cretins.
They should be careful that there's not too many elderly people on any of those routes in case someone has a stroke.
Are any of those roads cobbled? Asking as I haven't come that way before.
the rest have to be a bit quicker about it.
The spirit of The Two Ronnies lives on
Cue comments about hard helmets, air bags, mini pumps, gel seats, protein bars and, no doubt, hundreds of others.