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WE DO WHAT WE DO AND THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD NAKED BIKE RIDES |
World
Naked Bike Ride's Are As Bare As You Dare!The World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) is an
annual demonstration that draws attention to the absurdity of oil & gas
dependency and celebrates the potential of cycling and the human body. The
overuse of the planet's vanishing oil reserves causes pollution, global warming
and leads to war, inequality and injustice. Many politicians want to subsidise
the car industry and build more roads and runways. They call such follies
progress but this is progress towards disaster. You don't see cyclists on the
roads when they have clothes on but you do if we are naked. So wha't about
seeing us with our clothes. WNBR is an international movement, with rides
taking place in over forty locations in the UK and around the world. Riding
naked emphasises the vulnerability of cyclists on the road, at the same time as
celebrating humanity in the face of mechanisation.
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More World Naked Bike Ride Main Page.
World
Naked Bike Ride (WNBR)The World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) is an
international clothing-optional bike ride in which participants plan, meet and
ride together en masse on human-powered transport (the vast majority on
bicycles, but some on skateboards and inline skates), to "deliver a vision of a
cleaner, safer, body-positive world."
The dress code motto is "bare as you dare". Full or partial nudity is
encouraged, but not mandatory. Creative expression is also encouraged to
generate a fun and immersive atmosphere during the ride, capture the attention
and imagination of the public and media, and make the experience more
personalized and fulfilling for the riders. Body art, such as body painting,
are common forms of creative expression, as well as costumes, art bikes,
portable sound reinforcement systems (such as public address systems, bullhorns
and boomboxes) and musical instruments or other types of noisemakers.
Pre- and post-ride parties for WNBRs have become events unto
themselves, often featuring musical bands, DJs, body painting, temporary
structures/installation art, political tabling, and catering. In addition to
simply being able to ride clothes-free on community streets, some rides have
established precedent by having body-painting parties, often involving numbers
of naked riders and artists in high-visibility municipal parks. This
distinctive form of Critical Mass is variously described as a form of political
protest, street theatre, party-on-wheels, streaking, public nudity and
clothing-optional recreation, and thus attracts a wide range of
participants.
World Naked Bike Rides are yearly clothing-optional bike rides in
which each city's participants plan, meet and ride en masse on human-powered
transport to "deliver a vision of a cleaner, safer, body-positive world" by
attracting attention to a healthy alternative for vehicles that depend on
fossil fuels; the naked body is used as a symbol for the vulnerability of
humans to pollution, and of cyclists to the traffic in cities. These rides
occur in about 75 cities across 6 continents, though in countries with a
Romance language WNBRs are usually referred to by a name derived from their
Spanish origin, "Ciclonudista". World Naked Bike Rides have taken place all
over the world since 2004 involving thousands of people. These take place in
mostly western cities, where cyclists ride either partially or totally nude in
a light-hearted attempt to draw attention to the danger of depending on fossil
fuels.
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