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World Naked Bike Rides / Roger BamberNaked Bike Rides coming up
If you hadn't realised there is a naked bike riding season, you have no excuse now. Starting Friday 11th June, there will be official World Naked Bike Rides in Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London, Manchester, Sheffield, Southampton and York.
According to the organisers, World Naked Bike Rides are intended to be a "peaceful, imaginative and fun protest against oil dependency and car culture. A celebration of the bicycle and also a celebration of the power and individuality of the human body. A symbol of the vulnerability of the cyclist in traffic."
There will be rides taking place in over 50 cities worldwide but the UK events coincide with the build up to National Bike Week which starts 19th June.
The UK rides started in 2004 and have gradually grown in numbers and locations. Last year there were over 2,000 riders at 7 locations. The two new rides are in Bristol (fnar!) and Edinburgh where it is still not strictly legal to be completely naked in public.
Details on the World Naked Bike Ride website and below
World Naked Bike Rides UK schedule & links
Fri 11 Jun
Manchester All Saints Park 6pm
Southampton Southampton Common 6pm
Sat 12 Jun
Cardiff Park Place 3pm
Edinburgh Middle Meadow Walk 3pm
London Hyde Park 3pm
Sun 13 Jun
Brighton The Level 12 noon
Bristol The Full Moon, Stokes Croft 12 noon
Sat 19 Jun
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- eburtthebike 25 min 1 sec ago
Only the dumbest of the dumb would believe anything in the DM. Step up tory MP Nickie Aiken, so sadly representative of her party.
- bensynnock 26 min 55 sec ago
At present we have thousands upon thousands of motorists running red lights, breaking the speed limit, driving on the pavement, driving while using...
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Decathlon have a range of cycling gilets starting from £7.99 that meet the same standard as it's a requirement for riding at night in France (hence...
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On reading all this more carefully, I have now decided that I must take the fork right out and look at the most critical point. This seems to be...
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This train should have been wearing hiviz https://twitter.com/CycleNott/status/1729900567420412385 Still for sensible non twitter folk.
- Lozcan 3 hours 28 min ago
State of the roads round here, the only choice. So much flooding I got waterproof trousers and socks !!
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Would you not get saddle sore in the extreme
I was down at the Brighton Naked Bike ride this Sunday, 13th June 2010
and I have lots of video and pics of the event starting in the Level park
I would like to share them with other photographers
my email is
jxmarkham [at] aol.com
Thanks
John
Trouble is, with a road cyclist tan, you'd still look like you'd come along wearing the Footon-Servetto kit. And frankly, riding naked is less embarassing than that.