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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 [email protected]

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: June 2008
Time: TBC
Location: The Basement, 24 Lever Street, Manchester, M1 1DZ/1DW? (off Piccadilly Gardens) – see 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 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 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 -

General UK rides announcements and discussion and/or 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

• 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
• Entertainment and Accommodation in Manchester
• Information about Manchester
• Wikipedia: Manchester
• Wikipedia: Greater Manchester
• Wikipedia: Lancashire