[kuryaki]

I went cycling to this year's WNBR in Barcelona, Spain. It's my third non consecutive time there. Its quite obvios how every year it gets worse in attendance numbers. It has never been as big as London's or even Madrid's. But if you see pics from previous years, you could see a good pack of both genders mostly nude. On more recent years, many people opt to wear swimsuit or underpants. My last time there, only two women got completely naked, and the rest went topless or with swimsuit.

I missed last year's, which was unfinished due to the cops breaking it; apparently no one alerted the city hall about the 'pacific protest', and it being at the same day and time of the new major's investment happening, they had orders to stop any surprise protest, like this one, which no one at the city hall or police knew about. I've heard the cops where rather friendly, but attendants where rightfully enraged.

This year, very few people showed up, perhaps because of last year's failure. Maybe 20 people, 5 or six girls, non naked, non even topless. I was naked; its a great experience to ride your city in the nude! I wish everybody could experience it.

The ride was as fun as always, but can't help to feel a bit bummed out. Next year its going to be 5 guys, 3 with our weiners out and if we're lucky a couple of girls in swimsuits.

The city, a big multicultural one with lots of different nationalities and travelers, is quite open minded, specially towards nudity and protests. The new major was an activist before running for the town hall, so the current local government is quite cool and lets say, "modern". We have a couple of crowded nude beaches in the city, a bunch of famous nudists that stroll around the city in the nude, and a quite well organized Critical Mass movement with over 100 cyclists joining every first Friday of the month. So why is our WNBR slowly dying? Did the paparazzis on previous years scared our girls away as some users have mentioned here? I've heard this issue from girl attendants too, how they can feel un confortable with the non biking paparazzis, the press and finding their pics on the web. Is nudity too vain for the locals? Maybe that too. Maybe the nude biking seems too ordinary for Barcelona now. I don't know...

I took some videos and a very few pics I'll share in here. I guess the videos will have to be uploaded to a different thread.