Posted on 06/12/2022 5:30:05 AM PDT by Morgana
Thousands of cyclists took part in a communal bike ride completely naked in London yesterday afternoon for an annual event raising awareness for safer cycling.
The 18th World Naked Bike Ride has been going every year, bar 2020, since 2004, and is an annual event to campaign for bike safety and car culture in big cities like London.
There are a total of 200 cities taking part in the ride, including Buenos Aires, Melbourne, Vienna, Sao Paolo, Vancouver, Copenhagen, Paris, Thessaloniki, Tel Aviv and Tokyo.
They describe their campaign with a number of themes and objectives, including protest against the global dependency on oil, to curb 'car culture', obtain better rights for cyclists and demonstrate their vulnerability on city streets.
Wearing body paint and trainers - and little else - scores of activists bravely took to their saddles to take part in the London leg of the ride.
Many covered their naked bodies in glitter, painted slogans and fancy dress for the annual event.
Last year, the World Naked Bike Ride in London had an estimated 1,421 riders despite the Covid-19 risk reduction measures.
The earliest cyclists in the annual event began their ride at Victoria Park and Croydon meeting points at 11am on Saturday.
Others started in Clapham Junction, Deptford, Kew Bridge, Regent's Park, Tower Hill and Wellington Arch yesterday afternoon.
But it was not just London that saw the nude cyclists as thousands across the world took part in the annual event.
In Mexico City, participants wore Day of the Dead masks for the celebrations.
The bike ride is not only an expression of freedom but also serves as a protest for safer and more inclusive cycling.
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What percentage of these riders are gay? My admittedly unscientfic but common sense accurate prediction is 99.9 percent. Gay or not though, imagine those poor bicycle seats. The toxic waste dumps will be overflowing. Never buy a used bike in England without having the seat tested for e-coli.
Nudists are insane. Bicyclists are insane. Put them together and you have one heck of an insanity festival.
Apart from a few women that are not much to look at I’d say this was homosexual male event.
England swings like a pendulum do
Boobies on bicycles two by two
NUdists are sinners who are proud of their sick sin. They obey their sin nature, and try to force everyone to accept their sin or face the consequences
All the great depictions of Lady Godiva show a beautiful woman who in modesty tries to cover herself with her long hair. Obviously, nudity in classical art is validated in religion and myth, but it’s also a celebration of beauty — of which there is likely very little in this modern display.
And to make the comparison even worse, Lady Godiva rode naked in repentance for her husband’s maltreatment of the people: she rode not in sin, but shame. Moreover, the villagers were forbidden from looking at her, which is where we get “peeping Tom”, from the man who looked at her, anyway.
The situation here is reversed, with the public forced to look and naked, ugly riders acting not from shame but self-glorification.
A bunch of hemmoroids riding bi-cycles
Bicycle, bicycle, bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle, bicycle, bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I like
You say black, I say white
You say bark, I say bite
You say shark, I say, hey man
Jaws was never my scene
And I don’t like Star Wars
You say Rolls, I say Royce
You say God, give me a choice
You say Lord, I say Christ
I don’t believe in Peter Pan
Frankenstein or Superman
All I wanna do is bicycle, bicycle, bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle, bicycle, bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my
Bicycle races are coming your way
So forget all your duties, oh yeah
Fat bottomed girls, they’ll be riding today
So look out for those beauties, oh yeah
On your marks, get set, go....
CC
How is cycling not inclusive? Get a bike, ride it.
No-one is stopping you.
Oh, and you don’t have to wear spandex.
They are so far north, and in overcast England of all places, I doubt lack of sunscreen will hurt any of them.
They are not biking for anything but exhibitionism.
They don’t have to do it naked to make their point.
I guess it is my right to get in front of them with my 1950s auto and go as fast as they are and let the emissions do their work.
I only wish I had my old 6.2 non turbo diesel truck. That could spew black smoke for miles!
;-)
I have a sad story about nudism and a family member who was seduced into a creepy cult that used “fun, family-style nudism” on a ranch in Colorado to hook members. Come for the fun, clothes-free vacation - stay for the drug and human trafficking. Some other people I used to be tight with got mixed up in it too. It’s not like they were extremely nice, churchgoing types to begin with, but they weren’t brainwashed, suicidal nitwits to begin with, either - and now they are.
But stuff like this always makes me think of the Garden and the Fall - Gd got pretty upset with Adam and Eve for wearing clothes. Nudists always like to bring that up. “This is how I’m supposed to be!” (What do you think about that? Just curious. In catechism class when I was in school, the boys would always ask: “So, if I want for Gd to love me, I should stop wearing clothes?” to which the priest would typically reply with a tolerant little laugh.)
Outside the arena of sinfulness, nudity is a health and safety hazard, especially bicycling on city streets in traffic.
(Gd got pretty upset with Adam and Eve for wearing clothes)
What???
well I guess id go hang out and watch a few pass on one of the rougher coble stone roads!
That’s what it says. They were ashamed of their nakedness and put on clothes. “...they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons...”
That’s not what is being taught there.
Whoever taught that to you is completely wrong.
They ate of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
They disobeyed His commandment.
They were now ashamed.
The deer that ate my bushes with impunity were bad enough in Bergen County. These rats on wheels were a close second, though they frequently tie with motorcyclists who treat road rules as optional, followed by drivers making a left-hand turn who egg out into traffic.
Back to decaf.
What was the point of this?
Always somebody wants to be part of someone else event or cause no matter how dumb it is because they think it’s a cool thing to do it’s caused by never growing up.
I hope they wash the bicycle seats carefully afterward.
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