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The second World Naked Bike Ride in Brighton & Hove will take place in the morning of Saturday 9 June 2007. The ride will allow people to participate in both the Brighton & Hove ride and the afternoon London ride if they travel by train.
If you're interested in riding or getting involved, please join the WNBR Brighton & Hove Yahoo! group.
See also: Brighton & Hove planning notes
STOP PRESS!
Post-ride dinner celebration and slide show, 7pm Thursday 29 June 2006, Sanctuary Café (see details and RSVP)
Contents
Next ride
Date: Saturday 9 June 2007
Time: 10am (ride will set off around 10.30-10.45am)
Location: The Level, Brighton, BN2 3FX
Route: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=143955
Body painting workshop: 9am. Please bring body paints.
Flyers and posters
Spread the word! Posters and flyers are now available as PDFs at www.worldnakedbikeride.org/uk/brighton/files. Please download, print and distribute these!
Get involved!
Ride on the day
Please show your support for this event and its message by riding "as bare as you dare" on the day.
If you haven't got a bike, these can be hired from Planet Cycles, next to West Pier (01273 748881). Oddballs used to hire out skates, but they don't any more.
Spread the word
The more people know about the ride, the more will come. The more people come and ride, the more successful the event will be, and the safer riders will feel.
Help organise and promote this ride
To really make this ride happen, please get involved in organising and promoting the ride. See the Brighton & Hove planning notes for more information on jobs required.
Route
The route goes via Brighton and Hove, past a number of local attractions (Brighton Pier, The Royal Pavilion, the seafront etc), before finishing at Black Rock naturist beach (within striking distance of Brighton Train Station) in time to catch trains and join the afternoon London ride. Please see the Brighton & Hove planning notes for more information.
Media coverage
Pre-ride coverage
- Virtual Brighton Magazine, 23 Apr 2006: "World Naked Bike Ride gets Brighton 'as bare as you dare'"
- The Argus, 24 Apr 2006: "Cyclists strip for a naked protest"
- G Scene magazine, Jun 2006 (PDF edition, 8.4MB), page 10: "Naked bike ride"
- Rocks magazine, Jun 2006 (The Green Issue), page 4: "It's time to get your kit off"
- 3Sixty magazine, Jun 2006, page 14: "Nudists gear up for good ride" (PDF edition available on the downloads page)
- Bike For All News, 3 Jun 2006: "Nude cycling: no seams to rub makes it more comfy than you'd think"
- Bike For All News, 5 Jun 2006: "Brighton's bobbies want rude bits hidden"
- The Argus, 7 Jun 2006: "Riders cover up 'rude bits'"
- SchNEWS, issue 547, 9 Jun 2006: "Love handle(bar)s" (issue 547 available as a PDF)
- Daily Telegraph, 10 Jun 2006: "Naked cyclists forced to cover up"
Post-ride coverage
- Daily Star, 11 Jun 2006: "Bike nudes 'too rude'"
- The Independent, 11 Jun 2006, Last-Minute News: "Naked cyclists taking part in..."
- The Mail On Sunday, 11 Jun 2006: "Look... no Lycra"
- News Of The World, 11 Jun 2006: "Bicycling 2 abreast"
- The Observer, 11 Jun 2006: "Cyclists warned to spare Brighton's blushes"
- The People, 11 Jun 2006: "Hot (86°) Wheels"
- Sunday Sport, 11 Jun 2006: "Tour de pants!"
- The Argus, 12 Jun 2006: "Cyclists bare all for greener living"
- The Argus, Letters, 14 Jun 2006: "Cyclists ride bareback for safety protest" (by Bruno Beloff)
- Metro (Ireland), Letters, ? Jun 2006: "Brighton was once a great town"
- The Argus, Letters, 21 Jun 2006: "Bottoms up to naked cyclists"
- The Argus, Letters, 22 Jun 2006: "Breach of the peace is a crime"
- The Argus, Letters, 23 Jun 2006: "Naked bike police put me in their van"
Television and radio
- BBC Radio 5 Live
- BBC Southern Counties radio
- ITV Local Meridian (internet)
- ITV Meridian South
- Juice 107.2 FM
- Radio HeyNow – Polish radio station in the UK
- Radio Reverb
- Southern FM
Photos
- Mike Bliss
- Flickr search: "brighton naked bike ride"
- Flickr: World Naked Bike Ride group
- Ian Freeston
- Rex Features
Flickr photos by:
- Clive Andrews
- Mike Grenville
- Rob Jordan
- Neil Melville
- Kevin Meredith
- Fred Pipes
- Tim Richardson (aka Image Catcher), also available at Mac.com
- Tamsin Williams
Photos were also taken by the following people (no direct links to their photos yet):
- The Argus: photos by Simon Dack and Liz Finlayson
- Roger Bamber, photographer for The Guardian
- John Connor Press Associates (Contact: Matthew Davis)
57a High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 1XE, Tel 01273 486851 / Fax 0870 706 0463 / Email news@jcpa.co.uk. - Kent News and Pictures Ltd (Contact: Gary Wright, News Editor <gary@kentnews.fsnet.co.uk>)
Colman House, King Street, Maidstone, Kent, ME14 1DN, Tel 01622 755133 (24 hours). - Nigel Swallow, from North Laine Photography
Video
- WNBR Brighton by Fred Pipes
- ITV Local, The Big Brighton: Your Town: On Yer Bike... Feel the breeze on the World Naked Bike Ride
Video was shot by the following people and organisations (no direct links to edited films yet):
- Duncan Blinkhorn
- Lorna Gay Copp
- The Latest
- Legal observers
- Fred Pipes
- SchMOVIES
History
2006
160-200 cyclists (and one skateboarder) took part in Brighton & Hove's first ride, on a blazing hot day! Chief Superintendent Jeremy Paine ruled against us exposing our "rude bits", but Sussex Police were very friendly and helpful in facilitating the ride.
2004
Not far from Brighton, on 12 June 2004, two riders took part in a naked bike ride in the Ashdown Forest.
Links
A list of links related to this ride is also maintained at the WNBR Brighton & Hove Yahoo! group.
More information on the Brighton & Hove ride is available at:
Website/s
- WNBR Brighton & Hove wiki site (this page!)
- WNBR Brighton & Hove (official site)
Discussion group/s
- WNBR Brighton & Hove Yahoo! group
- WNBR UK Yahoo! group
Listings
Related links
Related interest groups
See the Related Interest Groups section of the WNBR Brighton & Hove Yahoo! group. Please add links here to sites that you think are appropriate.
Endorsements
WNBR Brighton & Hove is endorsed by the following organisations:
- Bike Week, 17-25 June 2006 – the UK's annual celebration of cycling
- The Latest magazines – Latest Homes, Latest 7, Wave
- Press Dispensary – press agency that produced and distributed our press releases [1], [2]!
- Rocks magazine
- Vinylla – Brighton fetish club night
Rocks magazine have supported the ride with promotional articles and discounted advertising:
Location information
- Maps of Brighton & Hove: Streetmap.co.uk / ViaMichelin / Google Maps
- Wikipedia: Brighton & Hove
- Wikipedia: Brighton
- Wikipedia: Hove
- Wikipedia: East Sussex
