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The Sheffield ride is on!

Next ride

Date: Saturday 13 June 2009
Time: to be advised
Location: off Rustlings Road in Endcliffe Park, at the Victoria Monument (this area is just off the Ecclesall Rd, and South West of the Centre of Sheffield

History

2008

RIDE REPORT: The first ever Sheffield ride had 27 participants on Sunday 8 June 2008. The response was generally positive (just one heckler called out during the ride). Happily, both the park authorities and Police were OK with the ride. It was a great and surreal experience. A number of the ride participants now plan to work together to make Sheffield WNBR 2008 a success (with hopefully 2 or 3 times the number of riders).

Register your interest

The first World Naked Bike Ride is going to happen on Sunday 8 June 2008. We're just getting this wikipage set up with info, so if you have questions or want to simply register your interest in participating in the ride, visit World Naked Bike Ride and register your interest. Full info and updates about the ride will appear at the Facebook pages.

About the ride

A peaceful, imaginative and fun protest against oil dependency and car culture. A celebration of the bicycle and also a celebration of the power and individuality of the human body. A symbol of the vulnerability of the cyclist in traffic. The world's biggest naked protest: 50+ cities and thousands of riders participate worldwide, including more than 1500 in the UK in 2007

Be prepared

First off, check your bike is in good working order. Bring something to safely carry your clothes in (panniers, rucksack, etc). Finally, be sure to decorate your bike and body with slogans, and bring bells and whistles! If you don't feel ready to strip off at the ride start, that's ok, you can strip some off later if you wish.

Route

The first Sheffield World Naked Bike Ride will start in Endcliffe Park at the Victoria Monument (map). We can disrobe in and around the gate entrance to the park.

NOTES: Try and avoid gathering near the Endcliffe Park Cafe as this is a family cafe.

1. The ride starts by going down Ecclesall Road to the roundabout at Waitrose.
2. Right onto St Marys Gate (NB: if numbers are low we can take the underpass & cycleway for this bit).
3. If we take the underpass, we could stop so that people who were too nervous at Endcliffe could disrobe further (Brighton had a similar stop - this worked well).
4. Left at next roundabout onto Eyre Street.
5. Straight on at roundabout at furnival square onto Arundel Gate
6. NOW THE FUN STARTS AGAIN
7. Left onto Norfolk Street past the Crucible.
8. Right onto Surrey Street
9. Left onto Pinstone St - past town Hall & peace gardens
10. Right onto Furnival Gate
11. Left onto Charter Row then Moore Street
12. Straight on back onto Eccesall Road to Endcliffe Park

(Many thanks to David for planning this route.)

Bike hire

Bikes can be hired from several places in Sheffield, but we'll try to list some recommended hire locations shortly.

Meetings and events

The ride planning currently takes place on the WNBR UK Yahoo! group. When there is sufficient interest, we'll probably put together a dedicated Sheffield WNBR list.

Publicity

The Sheffield ride publicity materials will be provided here for download and distribution.

Planning group

The first ride is being planned without formal planning meetings but it is likely that a Sheffield Ride Planning Collective will emerge to plan the next ride (2009). Following the York, London, Cardiff, and Brighton rides style of organisation, we expect Sheffield will be organising through open planning meetings where decisions will be taken collectively. As an interim measure a few riders will act as sole organisers until there are enough people involved to arrange meetings.

That said, we have a ride coordinator who will facilitate the ride planning process whether or not there is a planning collective.

Here's what the coordinator normally does:

• answers people's questions with care and consideration
• keeps track of who is doing what, and how far through things people are
• deals with problems and follow the discussions at the national level
• provides email updates to let people know what's going on
• points out where and when help is needed
• acts as a contact point for general enquiries (email and sometimes mobile phone)
• maintains contact information (and keeps it secure)

Additional responsibilities that the coordinator choose to take on:

• arrange meetings, compile agendas, provide minutes
• ensure that the collective remains non-hierarchical but organised
• moderate an email list for Sheffield ride planning

Media coverage

2008

• The Star (South Yorkshire), 10 Jun 2008: "29 naked cyclists stun onlookers" by Tony Belshaw
• Sheffield Telegraph, 5 Jun 2008: "Cyclists slip out of gear to protest against car culture"

Photos

• Flickr search: "sheffield naked bike ride"

Links

Websites

• WNBR UK – official site for UK rides
• WNBR Sheffield's wiki page – official wiki page for the Sheffield ride (this page!)
• The Sheffield WNBR Facebook page

Related ride pages

• WNBR York wiki page

Discussion group/s

Join the WNBR UK list if you plan to ride and want to receive important updates or share in general UK ride planning.

• WNBR UK – Yahoo! discussion group for all UK rides

Related links

• Bike Week - The Sheffield ride takes place at the time of the UK's annual 'celebration of cycling' but it hasn't been officially registered!

Location information

• ViaMichelin map of Sheffield
• Wikipedia: Sheffield
• Wikipedia: Yorkshire