World Naked Bike Ride

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Template:Short description Template:More citations needed Template:Infobox recurring event 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."

History

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A woman at World Naked Bike Ride, London, 2017
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Zaragoza and Vancouver hosted the first NBR. Pictured are participants in the 2009 WNBR in the Spanish city.
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Woman and a man riding at the Cardiff WNBR 2018

The first naked ride happened in Zaragoza (Spain) in 2001.[1] In 2003, Conrad Schmidt conceived the World Naked Bike Ride after organizing the Naked Bike Rides of the group Artists for Peace/Artists Against War (AFP/AAW).[2]Template:Better source Initially, the message of the WNBR was protesting against oil dependency and celebrating the power and individuality of the human body. In 2006, there was a shift towards simplifying the message and focusing on cycling advocacy.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Simon Oosterman, the organizer of the 2005 WNBR in Auckland, and the first to be arrested during a WNBR event, is credited with going further and refocusing on the issue on moving away from fossil fuel dependency in the context of climate change. He urged: "Stop the indecent exposure to vehicle emissions."[3]Template:Better source

The 2004 WNBR saw events in 28 cities, in ten countries on four continents.[4]Template:Better source By 2010, WNBR had expanded to stage rides in 74 cities, in 17 countries, from the United States to the United Kingdom and Hungary to Paraguay.[4]Template:Better source The largest WNBR event is held in Portland, Oregon, with over 10,000 participants in 2019.[5]

United States arrests

Two male riders were arrested during the 2005 WNBR in North Conway, New Hampshire, and charged with "indecent exposure and lewdness". The two riders agreed to having the charges reduced to "disorderly conduct" and paid a $300 fine, the majority of which was paid for by the WNBR Legal Defense Fund.[6]Template:Better source Six male riders were charged with public indecency during the 2005 WNBR Chicago ride and later prosecuted with sentences ranging from fines and non-expungeable conviction to three months of court supervision.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". In 2007, during the first World Naked Bike ride in Denver, Colorado police surrounded the bike riders and wrote several people tickets.[7] During the WNBR held on June 12, 2010, two men were arrested by campus police at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.[8]

Films

  • "World Naked Bike Ride Thessaloniki Greece" (Βγήκαμε από τα Ρούχα Μας; 27' Greece, 2009) Greek language with English subtitles, won the Audience Award at 11th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2009[9]
  • "World Naked Bike Ride: The Documentary" (Toronto) 4 minute short
  • World Naked Bike Ride (31 minutes, UK, 2006) directed by Johnny Zapatos of High Altitude Films, narrated by Jon Snow
  • Indecent Exposure to Cars: The Story of the World Naked Bike Ride, produced by Conrad Schmidt[10]
  • Bare As You Dare: Portland's World Naked Bike Ride (Portland, OR) Directed by Ian McCluskey[11]

See also

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References

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Further reading

External links

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  1. ↑ Naked cyclist demonstration in Spain - Manifestación ciclonudista en España
  2. ↑ Artists for Peace/Artists Against War's archived web page is currently hosted by The Work Less Party of British Columbia
  3. ↑ Simon Oosterman printed this on a protest banner as documented on Enzyme's WNBR web site Template:Webarchive
  4. ↑ a b Official WNBR global web site
  5. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  6. ↑ More information about the case can be found at WNBR North Conway website Template:Webarchive
  7. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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  11. ↑ McCluskey, Ian. "Bare As You Dare: Portland's World Naked Bike Ride"
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