Naked Bike Ride 2008

[flanker7]

A few smaller but nice London photos just posted to flickr.

[crispus]

Winnipeg Manitoba (first time)

[Pedro the Fisherman]

For the lover of a 'fuller figure', it is nice to see the other generations caring about oil dependency sometimes..........

[Fango]

"My kind of town, Chicago is..."

Love all the shots from Chicago. Keep them coming, please!

Thanks

Fango

[flanker7]

Been slow the last couple days. Hopefully we'll see another surge in photos around the web. Here's a couple more recent London pics I thought worth posting.

[Klondike]

Originally Posted by Pedro the Fisherman

A load of Chicago bodypainting shots went up at coccozella this morning, here are the ones with (MORE or less) bush in!

Question....Are all Chicago girls so hairy as the ones in all the shots we seen posted this week, almost all the young ones have underarm hair and a line of hair extending upwards to the navel, in many shots. I guess (as in Brighton) quite a few girls may well be gay, or is it a 'hippy' thing?

It came as quite a surprise to me. This looked to be a bunch of musicians (notice the drums, trumpet, notes painted on) and the extra fur was probably confined to them. They surely knew each other, took lots of photos, and skewed the overall "look" of the ride. But call them a clique of pagan worshipping musicians or something...

Klondike

[flanker7]

Originally Posted by Klondike

It came as quite a surprise to me. This looked to be a bunch of musicians (notice the drums, trumpet, notes painted on) and the extra fur was probably confined to them. They surely knew each other, took lots of photos, and skewed the overall "look" of the ride. But call them a clique of pagan worshipping musicians or something...

Klondike

Did a little research. I believe they're called Environmental Encroachment. The name pretty much implies all the above.

As far as bush goes, I don't think it's just Chicago. I've noticed that a disproportionate number of the women in the WNBR world-wide go for the less manicured look. This makes sense. Women that are inclined to participate in subversive political gestures like the WNBR are likely to ignore the conventional images of beauty present in mainstream culture. In addition to the specific goal of calling attention to oil over-consumption, the broader agenda of the WNBR involves rejecting most of the values that the mainstream holds dear (wealth, materialism, consumerism, mass consumption and... modesty), so it's not at all surprising that the females of the ride "just say no" to the ideals of femininity as sold to us on MTV, Us Weekly etc. Same reason you don't see too many tanned and buff gym-built guys. Showing off the full-bush is a counter-culture statement.

I agree with them politically. But me, I prefer a nice landing strip.

[Pedro the Fisherman]

I overheard a conversation at the body painting at Brighton on this subject, a girl with a full bush said to her mate (who was painting her, I think they may have been gay from other remarks that were made!), that she had not done anything about trimming it for a while as she knew she was going on the ride and it made her feel a bit less exposed!

[flanker7]

Originally Posted by Pedro the Fisherman

I overheard a conversation at the body painting at Brighton on this subject, a girl with a full bush said to her mate (who was painting her, I think they may have been gay from other remarks that were made!), that she had not done anything about trimming it for a while as she knew she was going on the ride and it made her feel a bit less exposed!

Hadn't thought about that. Makes sense I suppose.

[Pedro the Fisherman]

I hereby stake my claim for another first, the Cardiff (Wales) ride of 2008, the first time there has been a ride and it looks a bit tame. Still a tame ride is better than no ride at all!

We still have Edinburgh (Scotland), which I think is at the end of the month, to come. Then it will be the time to see what the scots really wear under their kilts!!!