24-105 for overall covering the event, 70-200 for those "intimate" shots. I'm on the other side of the pond but for me would be the 60mm 35-80 and the 70mm 100-400. Good luck looking forward to your photos! ;)

Is Cardiff likely to be a cockfest? Was thinking of doing it but that doesnt sound promising.

2014 UK Rides

Portsmouth 24 May
Canterbury 31 May
Hastings 1 Jun
Manchester 6 Jun
Bristol 7 Jun
Brighton 8 Jun
Cardiff 14 Jun
London 14 Jun
York 20 Jun
Exeter 28 Jun
Folkestone 5 Jul
Clacton 19 Jul

is that date of manchester correct because it is on a friday and i found on a site
Dates: Portsmouth: 24th May; Brighton & Hove: 8th June; Manchester: 14th June; London: 14th June; Clacton: 19th July

There's a naked bike ride in York? Is this the first one? I have only just moved away and knew nothing of it? I'd have definitely gone down. How do I get details?

York
 

Fascinating. I moved out of the area (not quite actually since I hail from somewhere closer to Leeds) two decades ago.

Just got one short clip of last year's ride: hxxp://vimeo.com/70745859
Proving we did have nice babes turning up then. Maybe sometime, it'd be my turn to pay grandmum (oh dear) a visit :rolleyes:

What if the WNBR met the Tour de France...
 

...in a parallel universe? My wish :p

I cannot speak from personal experience, but I know other senior members have commented that if you take part in the ride/nudity yourself then other participants are less put off by photo taking.

Weather for Portsmouth looks crap, heavy showers and 15C at best. Looks like it will be the usual cockfest again:mad:

Quick weather update for Portsmouth tomorrow......totally SHIT weather is the forecast. :mad:

Heavy rain, 13C and windy too! I feel sorry for the organizers, as they have been made to work really hard by the local council and police to let the ride go ahead.

On the positive side, Portsmouth has had 3 sunny and hot rides in past years, just as Brighton has had wet/cold and iffy over the same period. Perhaps Brighton might get lucky this year!

If you are naked AND young (i.e. you look like everyone else riding) you can get by taking pics with a cell or other small camera. I don't think anyone will hassle you. But a large DSLR - even if you are naked and young I could see some problems. Not as likely as if you are old and clothed, but still, be very cautious.

But it will be dark once the ride begins, so consider that also.

Actually though, last year some larger cameras were about at the art museum. It seems that lately, group pics are becoming more common at the front end of the ride, and some picture taking seems to be tolerated. But that applies to the posed exhibitionists more than the regular riders.

Good luck. I hope to be there, and the Portland women suit me fine :)

Davidavin (klondike)

Videos From Riders...
 

.. I've seen a number of videos from people riding. Hasn't anyone thought to mount their camera on the BACK of the bike? The view would be so much better, don't ya think? :)

At Fremont, I have seen tandem bikes or hybrid vehicles where a second guy is pointing a camera backwards. I wouldn't try it alone though because I'd have little assurance that the camera was pointed right.

I've been thinking about riding the Fremont parade this year but doing it with the idea of getting out in front of the pack, stopping here and there to shoot backwards (not while moving) and otherwise high tailing it down to Gaswork Park ahead of everyone else (tricky but if the pack is riding slow and circling you can maybe continue to work your way back to the front). Then when I get to Gaswork, I ditch the bike, turn around, and take the rest of my shots. But I doubt I'll try and shoot while moving.

Riding as opposed to driving your car like a crazy man to cover both the front and back ends of a ride can be good logistics. With many WNBR's, the actual route and end point is not really known to anyone but the riders. And in fact, while the nighttime Portland WNBR seems best covered by spectators, the best daytime WNBR pics often seem to come from other riders. With the smaller rides, fellow riders can do better than spectators because they can stay close to everyone throughout and thus take multiple close ups of the few (often under 5) female riders taking part.

Davidavin (Klondike)

I'm sure I saw a guy in london with 3 or 4 camcorders mounted all over his bike with some on poles to get elevation but I cant recall seeing what looked like the reults anywhere

Just seen the pics, 1.5 fully naked ladies seems to be the sum total:( The usual rider with flowers and the new girl mentioned above, who kept her panties on:mad:

NYC WNBR Emulating Portland With Evening Ride ????
 

According to information posted on both Twitter and Facebook, organizers are planning a "clothing optional" ride "in solidarity with the WNBR" in New York City on Friday evening June 13, That's the night before most of the international WNBR rides, and there's, so far, been no mention online of an "official" WNBR in NYC on that Saturday.

The new evening ride is being promoted as "Bare as You Dare" and "clothing optional" probably to encourage more participants, who might not want to be associated with something with "naked" in the brand name.

As an after work, Friday Night Happy Hour, event in a city with millions of young singles such a ride might draw large numbers of riders and spectators before they head for home at the end of a work week.

It should be noted that New York City has a new administration this year, with a much more liberal mayor. Also new this year are widely available Citibikes, which can easily be rented. They are similar to the Boris, or Barclay's bikes in London. And New York has miles and miles of dedicated bike lanes.

Unfortunately, the NYC WNBR has, most years, offered a few dozen riders who appear to be mostly counterculture types, with a few guys and a couple of very brave women willing to risk an encounter with the NYPD by riding fully nude in the city. However, it should also be noted that in NYC it is ALWAYS Legal for women to walk around or ride a bike completely topless. So a fully legal ride full of babes wearing just bikini bottoms is much better than no babes at all. And the first few hours, from 6-pm until 10-pm, should offer enough daylight, at this time of year, for pictures.

The new ride will also start over the bridge in Brooklyn, and likely cross the river and into Manhattan. The downtown financial district is still pretty active on Friday nights in summer, but very quiet the rest of the weekend. It will also be interesting to see if the ride ventures up to Midtown, Central Park,Times Square, 5th Avenue etc. which are always very active. A few years ago they rode all the way to Columbus Circle through a busy Midtown on a Saturday afternoon, and they also had an escort of motor scooter police watching their every move. It has appeared that the police were less vigilant when they rode through neighborhood streets in Brooklyn, or an almost empty Downtown Manhattan on a Saturday afternoon. It will be interesting to see how the new ride goes, and, hopefully there will also be a daylight WNBR in NYC the next day.

If the night ride is anywhere near as popular as Portland, this could be the start of something really BIG !!! :rolleyes:

Think he's likely to be disappointed by the police response, to be honest.

Has anyone seen any more Portsmouth photos since this was posted? I've seen the FBook set mentioned, and the one on the photo agency site Demo*tix, are there any others?

Any chance we'll be seeing any pictures of your friend? :D

Fango

I don't have any experience with photographing WNBRs, but I do know something about photography, and the NEX series in particular. I wouldn't worry about the size of the NEX-5N; even with the kinda-bulky 18-55mm lens, it's on the larger end of "small cameras", in my opinion. Probably not the kind of thing that will get anybody worried. But more importantly, the low-light performance is absolutely amazing. If you set the ISO to 12800 or 25600, streetlit photos can be clear as day. The higher the ISO, the grainier the picture, of course, so you'd want to test it out beforehand to be sure, and probably bring the flash along in case you want it in the darker areas. But if you can take clear photos without drawing the attention a flash draws, it might be very well worth it, and that's a great camera to pull it off. Using the flash would probably run down your battery twice as fast as not, but the battery life starts out so good that I'd be surprised if it ran out on you from flash photography, unless you're bold enough to take 100+ shots w/flash.

Barcelona and Madrid WNBR 2014
 

All set in Madrid and Barcelona for next Saturday June 7th!

Here's the events on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/events/237586819775257/ Barcelona
https://www.facebook.com/events/663129643724176/ Madrid

I'll try to go and see if I can snap something for you fine people. But last year it was very few chicks and topless only, at least in Barcelona.

So if you're in the area, spread the word!

Brighton UK
 

Hi

Anybody else going to be at Brighton this year (only a week and a bit away now).
If the weather holds I will be there but looking for help getting pics of me naked with clothed females, not that they will think much of my big belly and puny cock but a man wants what a man wants!

Honestly, her attractiveness level isn't a huge issue for me. I just find something really sexy about the situation of one's platonic female friend being naked in front of them. Even better that it'll be out in public. Hopefully, you can get her to do some nice, fun poses for you. Hands on hips and smiling (my favorite) or something like this would be great to see.

Thanks

Fango

The weather for Hastings is not too bad, at the moment, however their FB event page shows only one female as a 'maybe' and about 12 blokes, mostly regulars. In my past experience, it takes numbers (100+) to make younger females feel safe enough to join in. I hope I'm wrong!
Brighton now has about 400 FB riders, with loads of female students joining over the past couple of weeks. Weather is the key to a good nude turnout, however. I will be there, if it is fine and over 16c!

oh yes!;):D

When is the Hastings ride? It's just down the road for me?

I got about 75 good pics from 200 taken last year at Brighton and looking for the same this year.

Hopefully, you will both go, equipped to record anything worth recording for us here!

The best advice I can give is to ride a bike, ideally naked or semi naked and you can snap away to your hearts content and almost never get a refusal when asking for a photo!:p

When I snap away on the Beach at the end of the Brighton ride I'm naked myself so get a free reign of pic taking.

Canterbury wnbr 2014...
 

...was on today. Was in the city with my family but no camera and had even left my phone at home. Not many females - 4 or 5, but they were not at all bothered by the tourists snapping away. Bugger.

ah...
 

Would be a shame if the bike ride didn't happen again, but the custard pie championship sounds great! They should deffo have a nudie custard wrestling competition for the ladies ;-)

Canterbury
 

My first finds of the Canterbury ride...

hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9iLDpyBw4M

The weather in southern UK is pretty good for the hastings ride, hoping 27cows gets some good shots, as FB now shows a handful of very cute young ladies going!

The long range weather for London and Brighton next weekend is now saying 22-28 c next weekend, hope they get that right and a bumper crop of ladies turn out and strip off, cool rides effect numbers more than weather itself.

Already gone. :( Did you save it?

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Thanks

Fango

:cool:OOOOH, My wife has that exact same bike bought in Hastings! (No my wife is not a bike..... lol)

Bring Your Cameras to Portland, OR Naked Bike Ride 6/7/2014
 

Come to Normandale Park at 5700 NE HALSEY ST by 6:00 PM.
You won't be hassled for taking pics if you do it in the nude yourself. I will be there passing out masks to folks who don't want to have their face visible when they're nude.

They are a nuisance
 

Hello, I've been telling this for years. They're a well documented bunch who pretty much fail to understand the point of these rides - can recall one moustached bloke, a fully clothed seasoned rider for all the wrong reasons of course, who almost never misses London and Brighton. I very much guess that's go to do with the ultimate purpose of cosying up to female riders (does he ever get punched?) and snapping a few hundred pics (close range too!) by my estimates. Got this account to share with you. Very harsh but true. :(

If something's got to cheer me up, it's the unparalleled degree of freedom that London could offer ladies of Indian origin... three effortlessly rode topless and two fully nude last June, something to give loads of credits and guts for being there unlike their pathetic (a minority) male counterparts. From what I've gleaned from insider sources, this mark will be bettered next week for the decennial.

The Brighton WNBR Facebook event page is currently at 508 confirmed riders, a record as far as I can remember (mostly young riders) and the weekend is going to be WARM (20-22C), keep your fingers crossed that the weather site (all three main ones in agreement at the moment) get it right and we could have a bumper crop of photos and videos!

Yep, the attendee numbers on the Brighton Facebook page has been rocketing up over the past week or so! So much so that I've decided to ride (my first WNBR)…. seems the best (and, to be honest, most fun) way to get some pictures will be to take part!

Yes 'andy', it's the best way to get shots IMHO, specially at the rest stops and beach:):).

You will be accepted and unlikely to be refused a request for a shot (indeed I have had some nice poses in the past) when you ask. It's also a really fun event too. I hope to be there, but will not be certain until the weekend itself.

WNBR impostor caught on cam
 

@27cows, Drondo
Here's the creepy dude I've been talking about...right here. What a #$%$bag :mad: