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World Naked Bike Ride - Nudecastle 2006!

Ride in conjunction with Southern hemisphere ride locations (including Atlanta, Auckland, Golden Bay, Lake Tekapo, Melbourne, Saint Petersburg and Tampa Bay). Protest Against Oil Dependency, Cars & War! Protest for Peace, Love, Freedom, The Environment, Public Transport and Bikes!

Date, time and location of next ride

Date: Sunday 12 March 2006
Time: Meet 7am
Location: Merewether Surf Life Saving Club

Post-ride party

There will be a Post-Ride Party in a great location with plenty of drinks and food at cheap prices. The venue for the Post Ride Party has been booked. The Post Ride Party is intended for all the riders who complete the WNBR Nudecastle 2006.

The venue for body painting and the ride route will be kept secret (as last year) and will be revealed as the ride is in progress. Likewise for the post ride party.

Prizes!

The prizes are three bikes in excellent condition donated by Critical Mass Newcastle.

Prize 1: Encouraging Participation! A bike will be given to the contestant who recruits the highest number of participants to join and complete the ride with the contestant.

Prize 2: Encouraging Female Participation! A bike will be given to the female contestant who recruits the highest number of female participants to join and complete the ride with the contestant.

Prize 3: Best Individual Body Paint! A bike will be given to the rider who completes the ride and who is judged to be best decorated with body paint by the most acclaim of participants who complete the ride.

See Rules and Conditions of the Contest below for more information.

Flyer and poster

Whether you want to win the prize for recruiting or not, all potential participants are encouraged to download the flyer and poster to help promote participation in WNBR Nudecastle 2006. The more the merrier and everyone is welcome. Numbers amplify our protest message.

Pre-ride events

Critical Mass

Critical Mass Newcastle and the World Naked Bike Ride endorse and participate in all events held under both names in Newcastle. Critical Mass ride on the first Friday of every month. The next Critical Mass ride is on Friday 7 April 2006 (note that this is after the 12th of March WNBR) and starts from Civic Park, opposite Newcastle Town Hall at 6pm.

Orientation barbecue and body painting party

was held on Saturday 4 March 2006 at Lass O'Gowrie, 14 Railway Street, Wickham 2293, NSW

This pre-ride icebreaker event was a big success for the 30 or so people who intent to participate in the WNBR Nudecastle 2006. Drinking, team-building exercises and mandatory introductions were included as well as a practice body-painting session. Ian the publican was a great host and has welcomed us back next year. For a map of how to get there, please visit the Lass O'Gowrie website.

Feeling at ease

This icebreaker social event helped inform potential participants of what they can expect during the WNBR Nudecastle 2006 and to make friends with everyone there who intends to ride. Riding in any WNBR is daunting for the first time and worse if you turn up alone and don't know anyone. Participants should offer each other support and female participants should make an extra effort to bond with their sisters. Any woman that wants to volunteer for the role of Women’s Support Woman is welcome. All participants are encouraged to welcome and engage with everyone who turns up at the beginning of the ride whether they have attended the Orientation BBQ or not. Introduce yourself by your given name or nickname and make others feel welcome and comfortable. Body painting in preparation for the ride can be done in segregated groups and without any media present.

Media

Media enquiries for Australia: please contact Marte Kinder.

Several freelance professional media people will attend the WNBR Nudecastle 2006. At the moment, a photographer and a video producer have decided to attend. The photographers and the video producer attended the 2005 event and have been vetted by the organisers. The manner in which these people conducted themselves in 2005 was impeccable and they portrayed the participants respectfully. The WNBR Nudecastle 2006 will be photographed and filmed by our vetted media (apart from the undressing and painting) so take warning beforehand. If it makes you feel more at ease, consider that you may be able to heavily disguise yourself with body paint and sunglasses etc. The organisers do not anticipate uninvited photographers and video operators will be able to find us so will not shoot us either. The still photographs taken by the photographers are generally available to be viewed in low definition format within a couple of weeks on the WNBR Newcastle Yahoo! group and ready for distribution to the press in print-quality format within hours of the ride completion. The photos are copyright, so permission of the photographer must be sought before they can be reproduced or otherwise used.

Video Night

A video of cycling activists in Newcastle featuring Critical Mass and the WNBR Nudecastle 2005 was shown by the video producer who shot the WNBR Nudecastle 2005. He supplied the following invitation:

A broadcast of a special edition of the Novocast program Lou's World* on Newcastle Community Television will take place at the Royal Exchange, Bolton Street, Newcastle (Next to Herald building), on Monday 20 February 2006 at 9.30pm.

The documentary on Cycle Activists will feature Critical Mass, The White Bicycle Project, (some body painting) and The World Naked Bike.

Also on the Optus 3b Satellite at the same time if you happen to have the $850 aerial otherwise a Gold coin donation.

(Jeees $850 for an aerial!! In the black and white days we just used a coat hanger!!)

RSVP

(Program contains nudity) This is a media event and you will be photographed. (* Lou's World is not connected with this episode)

University support

A stall was set up at University of Newcastle during orientation week (13-17 February), promoting Critical Mass and the World Naked Bike Ride. Many students took an interest in WNBR and the theme of promoting peace and protecting the environment. The organisers were helped during O Week by the Newcastle University Students Association (NUSA), the NUSA Environment Collective, theNUSA Transport Collective, Rising Tide and the University Union. Big thanks to everyone at the University from WNBR. In the week before the ride, WNBR and Critical Mass will be promoting the rides on campus again because a reminder will help students not to miss the opportunity to participate.

Rules and Conditions of the Contest

Contestants for prize 1 and 2 need to assemble the participants they have recruited at the start of the ride and the finish of the ride for a head count. Participants may not be considered to be recruited by more than one contestant. The deciding head count will be made at the completion of the ride. In the event of a tie in the number of participants recruited who complete the ride, the prizes will be awarded to the rider who has recruited the equal highest number of participants who are judged to be best decorated with body paint by the most acclaim of participants who complete the ride. In the event that prize number 1 is won by a female, then she is not also eligible to prize number 2 if she has recruited the most female riders to join and complete the ride. In these circumstances, prize number 2 will be awarded to the female who has recruited the second highest number of female participants to join and who complete the ride. Prize winners will be determined in the sequence of prize numbers. No contestant is eligible to more than 1 prize. In the event that prize winners can not agree to which of the three bikes that each winner should take as their prize, the winner of prize 1 has 1st choice, the winner of prize 2 has 2nd choice and the winner of prize 3 gets the remaining prize. The competition is not open to established WNBR Nudecastle or Critical Mass organisers.

Links

• WNBR Newcastle Yahoo! Group
• WNBR Australia
• Picture of WNBR Nudecastle 2005
• Promotional poster for WNBR Nudecastle
• About Newcastle, Australia (Wikipedia)