Organizing a ride

Organizing and promoting

We suggest people take on the following tasks for organizing a successful World Naked Bike Ride:

1. Design a quarter-page promotional flyer. This has always been the most important component in the success of our past naked bike rides. See examples on the Posters page.
2. Decide on a start location.
3. Tell your friends, co-workers and family. Those closest to you are often the most likely people to provide support.
4. Optional: Decide on a location for a bodypainting party before the ride. Many naked cyclists love to get painted before riding. This can be a special event just by itself and can generate a lot of interest.
5. Help spread the word on the Internet using web banners. Try creating your own!
6. Optional: Decide on a location for a post-ride party. Naked cyclists love beer.
7. Get as many web links as possible pointing to http://worldnakedride.org/. Get it on regional event calendars.
8. Distribute flyers. In the past we have distributed about 3,000 flyers per event. For larger cities, we suggest distributing about 5,000 flyers. Smaller bicycle frame flyers also work very well.
9. Get endorsements from environmental, cycle activist, car-free, social justice and body freedom groups. These can be added to the endorsement list. Which groups endorse your ride is entirely at your discretion. We strongly recommend finding any local Critical Mass groups near you to network with and get support from. Many Critical Mass groups have a great deal experience with ride promotion and can make suggestions about where to flyer and where you can find bike racks to put flyers on. Ride and work with them to work towards common goals.
10. Use our Flash (.swf) banner ad on your site. Cut and paste this XHTML code into your web page:

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<param name="movie" value="http://worldnakedbikeride.org/media_promo/WNBRad2005.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="http://worldnakedbikeride.org/media_promo/WNBRad2005.swf" width="468" height="60" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>
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<!-- WNBR Flash (.swf) banner ad XHTML code end -->

How to organize a ride

(1) All rides listed here must committ to the following:

• The general message of WNBR is a protest against oil dependency and body shame. WNBR advocates and celebrates sustainable energy, environmentally-responsible living, human-powered transport and body-positive values. No ride should seriously deviate from this general message and no ride may require any minimum amount of clothing for the ride.
• Take promotion of the ride seriously. Organizors should work together with like-minded inviduals and groups (such as Critical Mass) to make a successful event. Organizers must distribute flyers and work with grassroots media and press to generate interest.
• Provide basic information for publicizing the event on the web including a start time and location.

(2) Potential Ride organizers must choose from one of the following:

• Select from an existing WNBR event using a menu and form on the upper right portion of the main page of the global WNBR web site and indicate in the form that you want to help organize and/or promote the event
• Suggest a new ride (using the form discussed above) by selecting "nominate city" and by filling in (1) name of proposed city (2) organizors' name (2) organizors' e-mail address (4) selecting "participate", "volunteer" and "receive e-mail" in the check box.