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The annual World Naked Bike Rides of 2025 took place in June and July. They are one aspect of an international focus on cycling safety in traffic and environmental concerns.
Participants are not required to be naked, though many are at least partially unclothed. Some prefer to wear minimal underwear (think bikini or swimwear) or adopt fancy dress, while others display body art.
WNBR has been active for twenty-one years, since 2004, and this year’s UK event was celebrated in more than fifty cities, including London, Brighton, and Manchester.
Across the world, enthusiasts gather to show their collaboration and support for freedom and independence.
An alternative or offshoot of WNBR is the ‘clothing-optional’ rides. Some may choose to use skateboards, or unicycles, or even to run. Such happenings as these are classed as ‘clothing-optional’ and may have political undertones of protest.
Being naked in public in UK is permissible so long as there are no sexual overtones, disorderly conduct, or intention of causing upset.
What amuses me is the sight of naked or partially clothed cyclists wearing shoes and helmets. As a focus on safety, removing clothes seems counterintuitive. Falling off a bike is painful in normal circumstances; without clothes it could be profoundly serious, with so much bare flesh being subjected to rough road surfaces.
Most bodies look better when clothed! Just visit a British beach on a scorching summer day to understand that sentence.
This is totally new to me- naked bike riders!!!! We do have a naturist beach in walking distance to our condo and believe me -I'd rather see them with their clothes on...It's mostly older people except on weekends.
ReplyDeleteMy first thought was falling off the bike nekkid!
ReplyDeleteThat looks VERY uncomfortable!
ReplyDeleteI was freezing this morning, so I was wearing a jumper, scarf and a felt hat. Thankfully you don't go to naked bike rides in winter.
ReplyDeleteI agree 100% with your last two paragraphs. Imagine the skin abrasions if falling on a gravelly roadside.
ReplyDeleteUm. Not for me; looks so uncomfortable!
ReplyDeleteI saw a naked bike ride in San Francisco. It was more a display of oiled suntanned bodies than anything to do with safety but that was possibly due to location.
ReplyDeleteJust Ouch!
ReplyDeleteNot an event for the faint hearted or the prudish of society. Nude swimming was 'normal' in Denmark but by the time I was living there only the elderly and the very young stuck with it. Teenagers in particular were very nervous about their changing shapes and careful about being well clad.
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