WNBR 2018

[fdooby]

Originally Posted by C Dick

Some female friends of mine ride in Toronto every year. Usually I go too, but I was not able to this year. Generally they have a great time. But this year they were very upset, the guys at the start of the ride, before they were on bikes were swarming them very closely, trampling on their bikes, holding their phones within inches of their bodies, etc. They feel very unsafe and upset.

Anyone who thinks it is ok, or not harassment for guys to act that way needs to give their head a shake. And the bottom line is that they likely won't do the ride again, because of the bad experience. And these are not exactly feminazis, they do the ride because they love attention and being naked. So you can be as sanctimoniously right as you want, but when you drive all the women away, it spoils it for everyone. I really don't know what changed to make this year worse than prior years. But it is a bad trend.

This sort of behaviour is absolutely out of order and no one in their right mind would condone it. The issue I personally have had is being hounded and called a perv when behaving in what I know is an entirely respectful manner.

The feminazis of Brighton essentially treat all straight clothed men taking snaps in exactly the same way, be they the unsavoury idiots who clearly overstep the mark and make people (men and women) feel uncomfortable, or serious photographers clearly only there to cover the event. If you're a woman, you can be as intrusive as you like. If you're naked and taking part in the ride...ditto. If you're a gay man, naked or clothed, the same. Three guys can stand there masturbating each other in the painting area and be none too subtle about it - no one bats an eye.

I've just been looking at some snaps from Brighton where the subjects frequently look ill at ease, clearly being the subject of unwanted attention. Who would want pictures like that? I personally only ever try to get shots of people enjoying themselves, happy, loving the event, waving, flying flags and such. Be it at WNBR or anything else. Defending your right to take pictures in a public place is absolutely not the same thing as saying you should be able to do whatever you like. A nice balance on the middle ground is needed. That's happened a few times, notably Brighton 2014 and 2015, London 2016 and last year. The intrusive idiots need to be clamped down upon. But the feminazis are clearly unable to tell them apart from everyone else there to spectate and take a few pictures.

[HCharles.Crank]

....from above comments... I have to say I’ve never SEEN so much discussion on a WNBR thread. I do like that people take things seriously on this site and do their absolute best to be real but can y’all set up a discussion thread and just link to it or something? This thread is for photos not for rating the morality of photographers...

[Jackhammer123]

Has anyone got anymore pictures of this girl?

flickr.com/photos/gh_party_pics2/41989724944

Picture is courtesy of @hunter_usa2003 who's on flickr under the username ghpartypics

[crispus]

Lucy's take: vimeo.com/274694220

[hunter_usa2003]

Originally Posted by hunter_usa2003 View Post
Here are just a few from my London set.
I have just started to post the full set to my Flickr Stream,.
You can see them all here.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gh_party_pics2/

Please note the watermark GHPARTYPICS is my own and all the pics were taken by my self.

[badrus]

Originally Posted by spankycranky

....from above comments... I have to say I’ve never SEEN so much discussion on a WNBR thread. I do like that people take things seriously on this site and do their absolute best to be real but can y’all set up a discussion thread and just link to it or something? This thread is for photos not for rating the morality of photographers...

well said thank you thank you

[DeechusD]

Originally Posted by fdooby

A lot of the girls only ride for a short time and I think she was one. You see snaps and kind of assume they must have done the whole ride and you can't work out why you never saw them - but she didn't go over Waterloo Bridge unless my powers of observation have substantially diminished. Which is possible, in fairness

Some people got lost or took a detour. She absolutely made it to Wellington Arch

[DeechusD]

Any more of this brave beauty?

[Everard]

Originally Posted by spankycranky

....I do like that people take things seriously on this site and do their absolute best to be real but can y’all set up a discussion thread and just link to it or something? This thread is for photos not for rating the morality of photographers...

Agree. Can we have two threads in future please, they could be called something like "WNBR Photos" and WNBR Discussion."





(P.S. Please move this post to "WNBR Discussion.")

[staypuftbr]

great onboard videos of manchester ride
youtube.com/channel/UCzJ05rFY-V8emDiXfmyFS7Q
a pity i couldnt see the couple of geeks