Manchester

2007-11-05T02:02:51Z

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'''Northern exposure this year!'''

Welcome to the Manchester WNBR official webpages.

Please join us or help with next years GREAT ride

Check out our photos to help you decide

Questions? Contact Meg 07896 347 196 or e-mail nakedbk@yahoo.co.uk

It helps to get an idea of numbers if you register your intent to participate in this ride by filling in the [http://www.worldnakedbikeride.org/ Registration form] at the main World Naked Bike Ride site.

{{Ride location next ride|Time=TBC|Date=June 2008|Location=The Basement, 24 Lever Street, Manchester, M1 1DZ/1DW? (off Piccadilly Gardens) – see [http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=53.4821&lon=-2.2338&scale=10000&icon=x map]}}.

===Duration===
The ride will take about an hour most likely.

===Dress Code===
The police have ok'ed the ride, so be ready to ride as bare as you dare. If you want to go for some kind of costume, think carnivalesque and really go to town, colourful and eye-catching. It's alot of fun, the people of Manchester loved us last year.

===Photography===
Manchester prefers riders rather than photographers. Rider-photographers are OK but we will be using the [http://www.worldnakedbikeride.org/uk/london/policy London photography policy] unless posted otherwise.

===Directions===
How to find the basement? Plug in the postcode M1 1DW into mapping websites (eg- Here's how to find it with [http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=53.4821&lon=-2.2338&scale=10000&icon=x Multimap]).

===Publicise the ride===
Please help get the word out about this ride. Circulate leaflets. These may be available for collection from a central Manchester location (TBC) or you can just get in touch with Meg, see above. We'll put a downloadable version here shortly.

===Get involved===
If you want to get more actively involved in the ride, please join the yahoo groups -

[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wnbr-uk General UK rides announcements and discussion] and/or
[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wnbr-manchester Manchester ride planning.]

==Ride reports==
===2007===
Well the 2007 World Naked Bike Ride in Manchester was amazing! We had 55 brave riders join us for another hot evening cycling the streets of Manchester. The crowds cheered and photographed us and even posted videos on you tube for all to admire. We attracted a lot of interest with radio stations, the BBC, Granada, Channel M, Manchester Evening News and a nudist publication, not to mention all sorts of indie-media.

We saw the sights passing through the infamous Canal Street, our favourite and most popular hot spot! Waved our flags to the BBC, freewheeled along Oxford road to cheers of delight at Kro Bar, then down to Deansgate Locks for some celebrity support at the 'posh bars', along Deansgate past many a shocked and admiring face, tooting cars all the way, then up to the Town Hall for a moment of cobbled wobbles when we crossed Albert Square, with the breeze on our backs (among other things!) we were free to ride, with police by our side. Ringing our bells through Piccadilly Gardens, we finished with a standing ovation, before returning to our original location. We wished we could stay all naked and free, hoped that onlookers were able to see, our messages painted on backs and on bums, our hearts were still beating like happy green drums!

==Media coverage==
*[http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ Manchester Evening News], 12 Jun 2006: "[http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/215/215431_naked_cyclists_in_pedalpower_protest.html Naked cyclists in pedal-power protest]"

==Links==
===Website/s===
*[http://www.worldnakedbikeride.org/uk/manchester/ WNBR Manchester] (official site)
*[http://www.worldnakedbikeride.org/uk/ WNBR UK] (This page has FAQ info and links to the other UK rides)
*[http://thebasement.clearerchannel.org The Basement (ride starts/finishes here)]
*[http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=53.4821&lon=-2.2338&scale=10000&icon=x Multimap directions to The Basement]
''See also [[United Kingdom]] page''

===Discussion group/s===
*[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wnbr-manchester/ WNBR Manchester] Yahoo! group for people interested in helping to organise the ride.
*[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wnbr-uk/ WNBR UK] Yahoo! group for Announcements and discussion of all UK rides.

''See also [[United Kingdom]] page''

===Location information===
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*[[Wikipedia: Lancashire]]

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