More pics from one of the Chicago ride's "official" photographers. I was initially disappointed with the pics from Chicago, but as you can see from these photos there were more fully nude and topless riders than was originally apparent from the first few sets.

More from Chicago.

Continued.

From the youtube videos I've seen it looks like there were a lot more naked people than are represented in these pics. I think that the "official" photographers had an official policy of asking people if it was OK to take their picture, and I'm guessing the majority declined. I'm still pretty happy with this latest batch though. :)

Also, some additional info on the ride. I know it was already mentioned that the official tally was 1700, but I'm not sure if it was mentioned that it officially passed London to become the world's largest. I read the following on their yahoo group:

"With other cities now reported, Chicago's 5th annual participation in
the World Naked Bike Ride last Saturday has SET THE WORLD'S RECORD
with 1700 bodies!!!
Mad props to all; what a privilege it's been serving this world-class
anti-oil pro-freedom event.
Anyone with PRESS CLIPPINGS or TV NEWS vid of the event PLEASE
contact me as I have nearly NONE!

Like many of you, I'll probably be at Tour de Fat at Palmer Square
Saturday 10a-4p.
"Parade, party, and performance event promoting bicycles." C U!
hxxp://www.tour-de-fat.com

Finally part rare cross-promotion, part full disclosure, wanted to
make sure everyone knows that in addition to WNBR-C and a few other
projects, I am publisher of ChicagoFunNews, "Chicago's oldest online
entertainment guide."
Wanna know the coolest things happening in Chicago, signup for the
email newsletter.
hxxp://ChicagoFunNews.com

L8r! ~ Andrew ~

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From: Jesse Schust / (senior WNBR staff London&UK)

Incredible outcome Andrew!

Congratulations on a spectacular ride and becoming the World's
Largest WNBR event!

The London ride remained 1000 participants (also the weather forcast
was poor and the day was a cooler day, which naturally lowers the
numbers). My energies were somewhat diverted this year due to some
things that came up in my personal life and also a frustrating sudden
$600 Insurance cost that we normally don't have to pay since we're
normally allowed into national "Bike Week" (which offers public
liability insurance for free to all event organisers), but this year
they changed their approach (baulking at our nudity and aquiring the
corporate sponsor "Nokia" so their name was "Bike Week guided by
Nokia" for the first time).

Honestly, I don't know how we'd manage with 1,700. For some reason
hundreds of pervy photographers come to the ride start and behave
really disrespectfully toward riders (especially the younger female
riders). It threatens to drive away the female ridership which is
not something we welcome. For some reason this has always been a
problem in London even when the ride had 58 riders and was held at
8pm."

Well done Andrew!!

Cheers, Jesse, WNBR London

I do not know how you do it Flanker, but I am glad you do!! What a brilliant set of photos!!!!!!

I spent a few minutes talking to Jesse (the London WNBR organiser, he's an American BTW:eek:) and he said that because of traffic problems 1000 riders in daytime London was about all the police and the organisers can cope with. Riding at night will encourage a lot more riders, but would it make such a big impact with half a million shoppers? I think not.

I think the London WNBR/Jesse must seclude the starting and finishing area and contract Pedro as one of the only official photographers.
:)

And off course many thanks Flanker for your nice Chicago pics.
:)

Thanks for the new Chicago pics, I was happy to see more from the cute African American babe!

Just to 'cover every base' a small shot from the WNBR in Montpelier, USA....not France:D

For more (also small) Montpelier pictures, see https://forum.oneclickchicks.com/show...923#post427923 (I put it in "Part I," since it was earlier). Also discussing placement in threads, Seattle WNBR is this Saturday: should it continue "Part II" or start off a new "Part III"? The following are from Boulder CO, where they had a swim after the ride.