[BeachBiker]

Almost a fortnight after this year's London ride, and seeing videos and picture collections that probably show most of the notable female riders at least once, it seems like many "stars" from past rides did not make a repeat appearance this year.

Among those missing, as has been noted, is the other "Tandem Rider" from last year. But also missing after repeating for a couple, if not several years are the slim woman with the full body tattoos and dark glasses, the small blond who wore a wide brimmed dress hat, and pearls two years ago, and a less wind resistant straw hat last year. There are at least a dozen female riders from the last few years who immediately come to mind who were no shows this year.

Among the most easily recognized repeaters is the woman with the bright red wig and dark glasses, who always poses for the crowd in Hyde Park, the very slender dark haired woman who wears the same right wrist bracelets and a cell phone case on her left arm, and the other adorable "tandem girl" from last year, and her covered solo ride the year before.

You have to wonder if the non-repeaters found something more exciting to do on a June afternoon, figured they'd had enough, and kind of "been there and done that," or if they decided they didn't want any more full nude full size and increasingly detailed pictures of them popping up all over the Internet all over the world for years to come.

As guys, and it is almost exclusively guys, go through this year's crop of London pictures it will be interesting to see how many hot fully exposed women repeat from year to year. In looking at the London pictures so far, it looks like there may have been a small net decline in those numbers this year.

(I looked hard for a couple of pictures of veterans who repeated this year, and couldn't find any unwatermarked that had not already been posted.)