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The past two years London has been much better than Brighton, so we live in hope that one sees the best weather. London usually gets lucky on WNBR day. Brighton...the opposite. 10 of 13 rides have seen conditions that varied between mediocre and absolutely awful. 2014 set the bar so high that it will never be bettered because they turn off the fountain at Old Steine now and the feminazis do their level best to deter the serious snappers and encourage the pervs :rolleyes:

Am personally expecting a significant downgrade to the current forecast. We've had persistent winds this year and that's always a bad sign.

If you are reffering to pics from 'saddle-sore' (3rd link), it will means that they are originally from Cocco and that our retired WNBR/Nude Beach master Pedro has the HQ versions. Luckily for us, some members (try to) follow in his footstephs.
;)

Southampton
 

The first UK ride kicked off today, the usual sausage fest (there I said it).

Evidenced by dailyecho dot co dot uk/news/16265194.PHOTOS__Bearing_all_for_Naked_Bike_Ride/

A couple of naked women perhaps.

Portsmouth tomorrow, which is likely to be worse and then Hastings on Sunday (don't hold your breath).

Didn't even realise they'd brought the Hastings ride back. I did the 2014 event but I won't be bothering with this one. The last one had less than 20 riders taking part.

Neither did I until I stumbled upon their FB page, it hasn't been well advertised.

Can we please just leave this and go looking for photos of 2018 rides now?

Yes, that was the point I thought I was making at https://forum.oneclickchicks.com/show...2&postcount=96 ; no pictures, but based on the less-than-HQ video at youtube.com/watch?v=h_SbmgfKBvQ , Bellingham (WA, about 90mi N of Seattle) had their best-attended and most promising one yesterday...

Can a mod move this pointless hair discussion to another part of the forum? :mad:





It's a glorious warm sunny weekend in the south of the UK.....where are the 2018 ride photos? I've not found anything on Flikr from this year's rides, even if they were mainly male riders :eek: like Portsmouth with the one regular lady and another more mature lady, not in this photo. If only Brighton was blessed with weather like Portsmouth.

UK WNBR 2018
 

One set of censored photo's from a local news site

dailyecho.co.uk/news/16265194.PHOTOS__Bearing_all_for_Naked_Bike_Ride/

and one Flickr link with a few

flickr.com/photos/51208623@N03/

These small rides seem to get pretty much no coverage except a small piece, usually full of 'bare faced cheek!' standard puns in the local press, at most. I covered Canterbury and Folkestone last year. Nothing very exciting but at least there were a few snaps out there. Canterbury isn't happening this time.

Weather for the coming weekend inevitably doesn't look like being great, especially for the Brighton ride, as usual. Current forecast says 21C, chance of sunny spells for C London, which is decent enough. But only 18C and cloudy for Brighton. Could be a lot worse but if it that holds (or downgrades) then it's likely to be yet another somewhat less than wonderful turnout. It's amazing the difference the sun makes. 2014 was one big party from beginning to end in hot and glorious conditions. Last year was a bit meh till the sun appeared. When it did, everyone suddenly sprang into life and started whooping it up.

From a snapping point of view, a lack of sun is usually a good thing. 2014 Brighton was an absolute nightmare in the midday glare of the sun. So was last year in London. It's one extreme or the other - 2016 London, it was so dark at the start that it looked like dusk.

dailyecho.co.uk/news/16265194.PHOTOS__Bearing_all_for_Naked_Bike_Ride/

So much for journalists......they can't even spell correctly! Baring all is what the riders were doing...tw*ts!

The best of a poor showing from Southampton, the fully nude is the perennial rider in the Portsmouth ride! From the body painting, the younger girl was nude when she was painted...wonder if she stripped fully for the ride?
I used to cover Southampton for OCC and some of my favourite riders stripped a few years ago there, it's just across the road from the Uni and bringing it forward a week was to catch students before they left for the Summer, clearly didn't work!

I do hope not, but having ridden from 2008 until 2014, it looks like the glory days might be behind us.

The sheer amount (and rudeness) of the male snappers which was always a small problem seems to have tipped the balance in the past two years. Great weather might do it, (if only the big rides had been a week earlier!) but the same old London/Brighton pattern is forming yet again on the weather front:rolleyes:

From what is on Flikr so far, things look a little bleak for the UK at least, hopefully the States can save the day!

This is the DE, though. They repeatedly fail to tell a story without mistakes (grammer/spelling) and given it's their sole perpouse in life, it's a total joke of a paper!

Not sure if the WNBR glory days are in the past. I think a lot is down to weather. 2012 saw only about 300 ride in Brighton under grey skies that later unleashed steady heavy rainfall. Temperature hit a dizzying high of 12C that year, one of the worst on record in the UK. Only a handful completed the full ride. 2014 saw over 800 take part and that figure was surprisingly bettered the following year. 2016 saw another day of cool, damp and windy conditions for Brighton and turnout fell accordingly, though still topped 500. Think there were about 700 last year. So clearly it's an up and down trend mostly related to the weather.

London seems to hold steady at about 1000 or so riders. Problem with this one is that, with seven starting points, some riders only do a short bit and many seem not to be snapped at all, or barely. The fact that it usually feels pretty warm in June in the middle of the capital, even under grey skies, and the fact that people particularly enjoy this one because of all the landmarks, helps to keep turnout to a good level. The laid back nature of the marshaling also helps to make this one worthwhile and the past two years it was definitely more fun than Brighton.

What you do see is a lot of new faces each year, which can only be a good thing. Old faces drop out but fresh blood tends to replace them.

Forecast for Brighton has changed since this morning. Now saying 19C and sunny intervals. The trend this year has been for warm weekends and we can live in hope that Brighton gets lucky and at least has no worse than last year - grey start, then increasingly sunny at the ride progressed. And this is the last time I'm looking at a forecast till Friday evening, because you can easily drive yourself insane :eek:

I know just what you mean, becomes a rollercoaster of hope and failure every few hours...and it's only any good about 36 hours in advance and then with no great certainty!:D

Are you going to these big rides this year fdooby? My days of riding are now long gone, so I'm hoping others will get some (respectful) photos for this forum.

The ride FB site only has 175 odd confirmed for Brighton, this could be an indicator of less riders (500 was normal a couple of years ago, but not all went) or possibly less people admitting things on FB as it tells your FB friends that you are going along to get naked. Not something you would want bosses or relatives to have plastered across their screens.

No Comment! :D

There's a little bit of doubt for me this year. But I'm intending to do both, all being well. I never have any problem with the people taking part (touch wood), nor with the marshals in London or any of the small rides. It's just Brighton that's the problem. Last year I avoided using my big grey lens till the ride was in progress. Like you couldn't just stand nearer to someone with a point and shoot and get shots of their bits, if that was your aim :rolleyes: :D People in the painting area were going about, as ever, with erections and snapping without permission. And nothing was said to them - always the case. I had some ridiculous trout come over to cross examine me when I was snapping Phantom Limbs (the regular band). FFS :rolleyes:

I never take much notice of what FB says. One year it was showing over 150 'going' to Folkestone WNBR - 20 actually took part. In 2015 it showed around 500 for Brighton - almost double that went. But I would rather a smaller turnout of fun people than just a huge faceless mass. The characters make the day.

Haven't done Brighton for the last couple of years, it is difficult getting good shots, you will get lumped in with all the idiots and mob rule kicks in with the added problem of the police doing their bidding, bizarre and no logic behind it. I have witnessed some unacceptable sexual behaviour at some WNBRs, get a camera out to record it & you are the pervert, hmmm.
I may try and do Brighton this year and get my mind set together. Move around quickly, don't linger on any female unless you happen to know they are a real exhibitionist. Never react to the Feminazis and don't take it personally, they hate every man anyway.

Fdooby, I think I've got London cracked except at the end, is the Buckingham Palace area any good for snaps? Am I right in saying that many abandon the ride before Hyde Park somewhere along Constitution Hill?

Buck House is usually excellent for shots. There's almost always an impromptu stop there involving a large number of the riders. Some then ride down Constitution Hill on the road, others go along the pavement (in deep shadow of the trees), a few go into Green Park. Last year there was a pretty big gathering at the bottom of Constitution Hill, plus the usual fairly big group on the grassed area to the right. No one seems to congregate at Wellington Arch any more.

The main issue looks like being the weather. As per almost every year, it's turned damp, windy and cool in the immediate run up to the London/Brighton weekend. Last year it was glorious in London so people hung around. The sun also appeared towards the end of the ride in Brighton and lots of people stayed to dance to the band outside the kiosk at Black Rock beach. I could and should have stayed longer than I did but I was already exhausted and had a long walk back to where I was parked, followed by a long journey home.

vimeo.com/273401454

Artsy promo for the Portland ride.

Enjoy

Fango

Does anyone know what pub the London After Party is held at?

Somewhere in Battersea Park, they warn that members of the public may enter, i would like to be one of those members of the public!

Anyone planning on being in Portland for the ride? How do they feel about people taking pictures?

Like most rides, they are more open to cameras used by other naked participants than by spectators. I'd love to attend some day.

Id like to know too, and dont feel like paying a tenner to find out;

Just checked the weather report. Seems its highly likely to rain.. bad luck

Some advice
 

Can I offer some advice to those who are going to London?
1. Be embedded - ie go naked!
2. You will be accepted as one of them rather than a pervert with a camera.
3. You can talk to all the girls you want as they will talk back to you if you have no clothes.
4. Tell them this is your first time and they will help you.
5. Ask them for a selfie...

Believe me they will be your best friends as you are int he same "club" as them!

If you are shy, wear a hat and sunglasses, or a wig

Totally agree with the above comments, nobody minds being snapped by a fellow rider. Not once in 7 years of riding did I have a complaint or refusal when I asked to photograph a lady. In fact most put on a nice pose!

Let's not worry about weather forecasts here until the day, it will OK for London and iffy for Brighton...just as it always has been for 10 years with the very odd exception.

What worries me more is the lack of stuff on Flikr this year. Three smaller UK rides and Burllington in the USA and almost nothing at all posted. I've never seen so little up, is Flikr no longer the uploader of choice? We need to sort this or 2018 thread will rival 2007 as the smallest WNBR coverage ever.

Going naked isn't always an option. Taking part in the ride isn't the best way to cover it, despite what you might think, if your intention is to snap as many of the people riding as possible. Mainly because you're having to concentrate on riding a bike etc and it's not easy keep going on ahead and catching people as they pass by, repeat and rinse. This is borne out by the fact that the best shots every year mostly don't come from those actually taking part - well, not the pics that are ever made public anyway. IMHO you need to do one or the other - ride or take pictures. Doing both is a struggle.

I personally have never had any bother in London. I think the riders can tell the serious snappers from the pervs - usually it's pretty obvious. Brighton can be tricky. Riders were always fine till last year but then even members of the press were being declined shots - it was obvious someone had been brainwashing them. But personally, I had no problem other than a very brief snipe from one of the feminazis over my 'intrusive' lens. Plenty of people happy to pose and semi-pose. I always talk to people and can't ever remember a rider having an issue at the time because I was clothed.

Regarding the lack of stuff on Flickr, this was inevitable with people being called pervs for covering the rides, and getting stick for not hiding anything they might take behind a password and only shared with a select few in private places. Cardiff 2017 was a perfect case in point - I don't remember seeing anything at all from that one, when in previous years there was loads of good stuff out there.

Speaking to various organisers at assorted rides, they are always in favour of respectful photos of a decent standard as they help promote these events. This doesn't seem to filter through to many of the marshals - predominately the Brighton lot, who just don't seem able to distinguish a pushy perv trying to take creep shots of unwilling and uncomfortable riders, and those who are just there to cover the ride and who are behaving in a sensible and civilized manner.

I predict that less and less stuff will appear in the open, be it on Flickr or elsewhere. I know of at least three photographers, pro and semi-pro, who took a raft of frequently superb shots last year but have never made them public. It's a shame that such talent and its product goes to waste.

Weather in Manchester has been glorious all week, and the same today. No doubt it will change tomorrow and probably piss down! lol, anyway, I`m still going, lets hope this sunshine holds, love getting naked in the hot sun but then again it might be nice riding nude in the rain!!

[QUOTE=fdooby;2627031]Going naked isn't always an option. Taking part in the ride isn't the best way to cover it, despite what you might think, if your intention is to snap as many of the people riding as possible. Mainly because you're having to concentrate on riding a bike etc and it's not easy keep going on ahead and catching people as they pass by, repeat and rinse. This is borne out by the fact that the best shots every year mostly don't come from those actually taking part - well, not the pics that are ever made public anyway. IMHO you need to do one or the other - ride or take pictures. Doing both is a struggle.

With the exception of those clever people who have a cam on the BACK of their bikes - that usually results in some pretty spectacular shots! If only they would vary their place in the line-up a bit more.. *sigh*

[QUOTE=aftadark;2627444]It's the taking part that counts!
:p

this thread should move to a discussion thread first we had pages of bush or no bush then whether girls would come out and a page or two of weather reports enough wait for the rides no other wnbr thread has this shit

Bellingham Videos
 

Bellingham 2018

archive.org/details/Naked-Bike-Ride-Bellingham

Bellingham 2017

archive.org/details/nakedbikeride

Columbus, OH this Sat night
 

Planning to be there. Their after party plans got scrapped when they couldnt find a venue so Im not sure how the event will unfold.

They are REALLY goofy about photos but I'll try to get some.

-r

Typical!!! Pouring down here in Manchester now, although it might be great fun riding round starkers in the rain tonight, Lol! got me hot and bothered thinking about that!!

I have sent you a PM Jules. I may be doing it tonight as well!

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At the risk of upsetting the person who hates weather stuff (obviously not a Brit), it's going to 'turn out nice again' this evening! Hopefully if anybody bothers to upload photos to Flikr we can look forward to seeing you in the buff again soon Jules. Have fun!:D;)

I actually think the discussion before the big rides is really useful for those planning on going, you know, those people who then share their photos on here for you to enjoy!

I’ll be going to the London ride again tomorrow, and for the first time i’ll be taking part, fully naked. :)
It’ll be interesting to see how the experience differs this year when I too am naked, compared to other years where I’ve just been a spectator.

And the weather’s looking good too. :)

Manchester WNBR
 

First video from Manchester

www51.zippyshare.com/v/dJM2t02z/file.html

Manchester WNBR
 

Better Quality Video of previous post.

https://www51.zippyshare.com/v/MEWHbNIu/file.html

WNBR LONDON & BRIGHTON 2018
 

i will as always post every pic i take that ok on here and flicker

hope to get tower hill start linclon inn middle and waterloo brigde also and if time the mall too