http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: World Naked Bike Ride - version suitable for Edinburgh en Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:51:19 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2698#post-33090 Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:04:06 +0000 chdot 33090@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"The Portsmouth leg of the World Naked Bike Ride will take place this Thursday after the city council insisted it was a police matter after it received a petition signed by 1,500 locals seeking to stop the ride."</p> <p><a href="http://road.cc/content/news/36780-council-gives-protesters-against-portsmouth-naked-bike-ride-bums-rush" rel="nofollow">http://road.cc/content/news/36780-council-gives-protesters-against-portsmouth-naked-bike-ride-bums-rush</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2698#post-32719 Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:19:47 +0000 chdot 32719@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://road.cc/content/news/36529-suffolk-magistrates-fail-see-funny-side-cyclist-who-rode-naked-through-speed" rel="nofollow">http://road.cc/content/news/36529-suffolk-magistrates-fail-see-funny-side-cyclist-who-rode-naked-through-speed</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2698#post-32236 Fri, 27 May 2011 10:42:22 +0000 kaputnik 32236@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>wingpig, you could just ride up and down the St. leonards tunnel in your pants to keep the sun and heat off? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2698#post-32228 Fri, 27 May 2011 10:11:44 +0000 wingpig 32228@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A place perhaps better-suited to a naked theme would be Newcastle, though despite its night-time reputation for absence of coats in men and minimal coverage of women the turnout for the Spencer Tunick thing a few years back was relatively low.</p> <p>Having a naked ride event during the daytime in the summer is perhaps a problem, particularly amongst the fair-skinned of the north when there's a distinct risk of sunburn. If it was at night in the spring or autumn there'd be less of a problem with sunburn (and the visibility of nakedness for those whom it might offend) and some impetus to ride at a decent speed in order to keep the body temperature up. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2698#post-32227 Fri, 27 May 2011 10:03:15 +0000 Smudge 32227@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Shellsuit? No no, you're confusing Edinburgh with Easterhouse...</p> <p>World fur coat and no knickers (or trams come to that) surely! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2698#post-32223 Fri, 27 May 2011 09:25:01 +0000 kaputnik 32223@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>But a WNBR in Edinburgh? Somehow doesn't seem in keeping with the tenor of the city. </em></p> <p>Quite.</p> <p>We need a world shellsuited bike ride </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2698#post-32218 Fri, 27 May 2011 09:15:07 +0000 TwoWheels 32218@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cyclingwise, Portland is the Copenhagen of the U.S. (just hillier, rainier, colder, and with fewer cyclists), so I'm not surprised they have the wherewithal for clothing-discretionary sports.</p> <p>But a WNBR in Edinburgh? Somehow doesn't seem in keeping with the tenor of the city. Unless, of course, underneath all that literate gentility, the City that Holds My Heart hides a randy skirt. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2698#post-32195 Thu, 26 May 2011 13:34:31 +0000 ruggtomcat 32195@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just recieved a message from the organiser of the Glasgow naked bike ride:</p> <p>"<em>hello<br /> I am sorry the event wont happen as I am too busy to organise it - if any one wants to do it please let me know asap I'll give you admin rights<br /> - also James already drafted a tour of glasgow to do...</p> <p>let me know by monday<br /> thanks<br /> greg</em>"</p> <p>by Admin rights he means acessto the facebook page. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2698#post-32099 Wed, 25 May 2011 10:37:54 +0000 chdot 32099@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Cyclists-gearing-up-to-grin.6774112.jp" rel="nofollow">http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Cyclists-gearing-up-to-grin.6774112.jp</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2698#post-28761 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:48:32 +0000 spytefear 28761@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Random! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2698#post-28715 Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:45:54 +0000 Arellcat 28715@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Meanwhile, in <a href="http://bikeportland.org/2011/03/28/save-the-dates-world-naked-%E2%80%94-or-clothed-%E2%80%94-bike-rides-50315">Portland</a>, they've <a href="http://shift2bikes.org/cal/viewpp2011.php#18-2109">decided</a> that the 2011 World Naked Bike Ride is to be held on June 18th. And now some bright spark, obviously fed up with annual exhortations to ride in the buff, has organised...wait for it...the First Annual World Clothed Bike Ride.</p> <p>"<em>Are you tired of all the pressure to ride bikes naked? Are you sick of seeing the jiggly bits of people who don't ride bikes otherwise?</p> <p>Then this ride is for you!</p> <p>This will be a celebration of our right to wear clothes (multiple layers even!) while going on a fabulous bike ride! Costumes and sarcasm encouraged. Don't mope alone during WNBR this year!</em>"</p> <p>There's apparently <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=196355710395159">a page on social network central</a> about it. But I'm not a member so I can't read it. Perhaps Edinburgh can take part after all, with hundreds of actually-not-naked-at-all cyclists protesting about environmental vulnerability and things. </p>