Naked Bike Ride Part 1 is this weekend!!!!

[Pedro the Fisherman]

Just a reminder for all of you who own video or digital cameras to go out this weekend and get some shots of the dozens of WNBR rides, all over the northern hemisphere. If you get some shots, post them here or you can even send them to a site like to coccozella, where in exchange, you get free membership!


Here is the list of rides, click on the links for dates and times etc. Some rides (part2) take place the following weekend.

http://nakedwiki.org/

I am away for a few days and hope to catch a ride in action. However the UK and France are forecast to have rain and cool temps on Saturday, so that will screw things up!!! The big London ride (up to 1800 riders expected) is the 14th June, so may escape the awful weather!

If I get any shots (which is looking unlikely) I will post them next week.


Just to show the USA has some good fully naked rides, here are some shots from the 2007 Burlington VA ride. I do not think they have been posted here before.........

[stevin6]

Originally Posted by Pedro the Fisherman

Just a reminder for all of you who own video or digital cameras to go out this weekend and get some shots of the dozens of WNBR rides, all over the northern hemisphere. If you get some shots, post them here or you can even send them to a site like to coccozella, where in exchange, you get free membership!


Here is the list of rides, click on the links for dates and times etc. Some rides (part2) take place the following weekend.

http://nakedwiki.org/

I am away for a few days and hope to catch a ride in action. However the UK and France are forecast to have rain and cool temps on Saturday, so that will screw things up!!! The big London ride (up to 1800 riders expected) is the 14th June, so may escape the awful weather!

If I get any shots (which is looking unlikely) I will post them next week.


Just to show the USA has some good fully naked rides, here are some shots from the 2007 Burlington VA ride. I do not think they have been posted here before.........

It seems to be that the wheater could be nice this saturday, especially at the Utrecht WNBR.
If the wheater will be nice, and i have the possibillity, i will join that WNBR.

[Klondike]

On the eve of the first WNBR weekend of the year, I found this commentary on the rider-photographer relationship from a RIDER'S point of view. This came up in a SF-WNBR discussion group. Read on, especially if you are contemplating attending a ride as a photographer. I found it quite interesting....

I think that some of us are losing sight of the 'bigger picture'
> here. The purpose of the nudity in this and other similar protests is
> to gain attention to the cause. This includes photographers, and yes -
> posting the pics on the internet. Your participation in the event is
> essentially tantamount to releasing your image into the public
> domain. We thank you for that. And their participation in the event
> is CRUCIAL to making the event an effective means of reaching the
> public's attention. If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is
> there to see it ...
>
> It's a slippery slope to start assigning values and motives to various
> photographers - some you like, some you don't. These things are out
> of our collective hands. As for "prurient" or "pornographic" matters,
> let's face it - not many people are that much of a turn-on. Those
> that are more fit and young and attractive will garner more attention
> than those that are perhaps older or plumper. Ever has it been thus.
> But yet we thank everybody for their participation equally.
>
> There are also (usually) photographers and participants
> from 'clothesfree.com' - another "for profit" website, yet they don't
> seem to create the same level of resentment - presumably because
> their 'bent' is geared to the naturist lifestyle. So one group's
> motives are perceived as more pure than the other, yet they're both
> doing the same thing. Who wants to volunteer as hall monitor for
> which photographers are "okay" and which are spurned? Who wants to
> create an ugly scene with recriminations and public opprobrium?
>
> I'll pass. Me? I'm going to participate in the event with full
> knowledge that people are photographing the event and that I have zero
> control over how these photos are distributed. Through the past few
> years, the demeanor and comportment of the participants are one of the
> most remarkable aspects of this event. Everybody's cool and there
> doesn't seem to be a lot of tension or edginess. It's upbeat - let's
> keep it that way and not get caught up in petty squabbles about the
> photographers.
>
> Some one said it earlier and of course it's absolutely true - if you
> don't wish to be photographed naked in public, don't get naked in
> public. But if you do, do not presume to be able to dictate who can
> or cannot take photos - or create public scenes about inappropriate
> behavior while you're standing naked in the middle of the city.
>
> Let's have some fun while we're changing the world. Looking forward


So there you have it - a very reasoned and intelligent analysis. Bikers can 1) expect to be photographed, 2) not have any control over what happens to the pics and 3) not pick and choose who does and doesn't have the right to take pics...

i think I knew this anyway, but its good to hear it from a riders point of view.

KLondike
> to it.

[Klondike]

I didn't realize at first that those southhampton pics were from 2008. They must have been posted within an hour or so after they were taken. So I thought these below might be the first ride pics of 2008. Now they're the second. From Brighton, UK.

enjoy,

Klondike

[Klondike]

To Pedro and others - I just wanted to highlight again a sentence in my post above about photographers at WNBR rides. This was written by a rider and organizer of the SF ride:

[QUOTE]And their (photographers) participation in the event
is CRUCIAL to making the event an effective means of reaching the public's attention[END QUOTE]

the emphasis on the word crucial was not made by me!

Klondike

[crispus]

...where a good search term is "ciclonudista"; there's also a gallery at http://www.20minutos.es/galeria/4413/0/0 PS to Klondike: The woman in #7 apparently hasn't read the same message you did!

[fireboy234]

Hey where are you finding these pics, specifically the soton ones.

[crispus]

Don't know (the filenames are not Flickr) but there's apparently a video at http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/video/vid....32832.0.0.php (haven't bothered to look since I only have dialup)

[crispus]

First (from any year) from Scandinavia? Sorry about small size; exif indicates bigger original but "Flickr Tricker" not able to scale up

[crispus]

Couple more from Scandinavia (Denmark I think)