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Northern exposure this year!

Welcome to the Manchester WNBR official webpages.

Yes, the 2007 World Naked Bike Ride in Manchester is happening! It will be Manchester's second ride after a warm and friendly first time in 2006 WNBR global protest.

Questions? Contact Meg 07896 347 196 or e-mail manchester [at] worldnakedbikeride [dot] org

It helps to get an idea of numbers if you register your intent to participate in this ride by filling in the Registration form at the main World Naked Bike Ride site.

Next ride

Date: Friday 8 June 2007
Time: 6pm (for 7pm departure)
Location: Assemble inside The Basement, 24 Lever Street, Manchester, M1 1DZ/1DW? (off Piccadilly Gardens) – see map

About the 2007 Ride

We will assemble at The Basement, 24 Lever Street (off Piccadilly Gardens). We'll be indoors from 6pm to 7pm. We'll be showing films (including last year's ride), and provide a safe, camera-free space to do bodypainting/costuming. At 7pm we'll hit the streets of Manchester on our beautiful bikes. If you have roller blades, scateboards or other (non-carbon emitting) wheels feel free to use them. The ride will take about an hour most likely.

Come 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.

Manchester prefers riders rather than photographers. Rider-photographers are OK but we will be using the London photography policy unless posted otherwise.

How to find the basement? Plug in the postcode M1 1DW into mapping websites (eg- Here's how to find it with Multimap).

Please help get the word out about this ride. Circulate leaflets. These should be available for collection from The Basement closer to the time or you can download and print them at home.

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

General UK rides announcements and discussion and/or Manchester ride planning.

For additional information, see the website pages for the UK and United Kingdom Wiki pages]. The Brighton ride is on the Wiki pages Brighton & Hove. Also there are websites for the York ride and London ride. Additionally, there is a page for the film by Johnny Zapatos and a general Press info page for all UK rides.

You should be able to collect some at The Basement.

Media coverage 2006

• Manchester Evening News, 12 Jun 2006: "Naked cyclists in pedal-power protest"

Links

Website/s

• WNBR Manchester (official site)
• WNBR UK (This page has FAQ info and links to the other UK rides)
• The Basement (ride starts/finishes here)
• Multimap directions to The Basement

See also United Kingdom page

Discussion group/s

• WNBR Manchester Yahoo! group for people interested in helping to organise the ride.
• WNBR UK Yahoo! group for Announcements and discussion of all UK rides.

See also United Kingdom page

Location information

• ViaMichelin Map of Manchester
• Information about Manchester
• Wikipedia: Manchester
• Wikipedia: Greater Manchester
• Wikipedia: Lancashire