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Long time lurker have been doing the rides on/off for ten years, so thought i could add a few thoughts. i started at the tower hill, not the wellington arch start, but i felt both interactions with general public as spectators and amongst the riders themselves felt low energy and subdued, very little eg women coming up to ask for pictures or riders seeing women smiling taking pictures, saying would you like a picture, in fact to be honest i couldnt remember a single fully naked 18-35 woman at all.

At wellington arch fdooby captured some great interactions, obvs sue and christina who are natural, but the epytian couple who were inviting spectators for pictures and there was a very attractive woman in a tight dress coming up enthusiastically to get a picture with the couple. so like a festival or a carnival type atmosphere eg how the ride used to be.

The ride itself was very subdued, perhaps because of not having forum mangum square break, but other than riders who were bringing music, the ride was dead no stopping for pictures at landmarks, no interacting with the crowd, security saying keep riding, dont stop and talk, and very few riders had signs on them eg those two girls so you could have a natural way to start a conversation, very few people with bodypaint.

relatively to previous years the gender ratio was way out of whack, yes it may have always been 90/10 or 95/5 but with 1000 men that meant 50-100 women of whom lets say maybe 10-30 could be 18-35 and fully naked and happy to either take pictures or allow people to take pictures of them.

This time by the time the ride got to lincoln square, so maybe women had already left by them, other than eg sue, christina, maybe 5 fully naked women. there were some women as part of couples, but they were giving off vibe of wanting to be left alone plus you need the enthusiastic consent of her boyfriend/husband to interact with his partner ask for pictures so you dont be seen to be stepping on his toes.

Of the 5, 1 was gorgeous, but was no longer naked, no pictures of her have yet been posted here, the two girls who i think started at hackney, with they no rack dont frack, they also had some slogans on their bottom, and any other women i cant remember.

The reason i thought of commenting, was i agree with both fdbooy and other commentators who though the ride was shit, eg in picture above the 2 beauties, fdobby shows a picture with the girl with the red shades very enthusiastically leaning into the picture with the topless asian man, so was clearly happy to be there.

However when i approached, this was say 15 mins into lincoln stop, they were surrounded by photographers, and men giving them attention and had moved to the side when earlier they were in the throngs of the crowd. when i approached i made eye contact with the shades girl got positive smile back, said do you mind if i take a piture with you two, she was happy, not as happy as fdooby pic but still, but her friend was initally negative to the idea, but they agreed after a brief back and forth.

Those two seemed to leave the ride soon after lincoln stop, my guess is they were just overwhelmed with male attention being frankly the two standout stars and frankly the only attractive fully naked women amongst 1000 other men. the feeling i got was shades girl was the instigator and her friend was being brought along with the ride. the fact they got fully naked at the start when they look in picture as only women, the fact at the front of the ride, the fact some double entendre signs eg no rack, near her breasts, or the messages on their bums, would usually imply commited to the ride, high energy and open to interactions with public and fellow riders.

Perhaps this was a me issue my vibe my energy just didnt sync well with these two, and they were really happy to have pictures with other riders. but the point is both are right, the ride overall was shit, no vibe at all, very few women, very few attractive naked women open to banter and pictures, and the few attractive naked women either got dressed during ride , or left prior to the end so that none of the pictures near buckingham palace and the end point of ride was dead.