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Date: Saturday 10 June 2006
Time: Meet at 10am for socialising, body painting, bike decorating etc. Bring food to share if you wish. Ride starts around noon, following a route along several major streets in the downtown core.
Location: Coronation Park (west of Bathurst Street, on the waterfront)
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(Tentative plan)
What to bring
- Water
- Sunscreen
- Decorations
- Signs for yourself and your bike
- Posters
- Costumes
- Body paints
- A personal picnic lunch including beverages for the day.
- Minimal crotch covering (eg: jock-strap, thong etc) in case police ask us to cover up.
- Bicycle helmet. Let's be good role models!
Legality
Remember, it's perfectly legal for women to go topless in Canada anywhere that a man might, which includes cycling on city streets. The Crown Attorney has also acknowledged that participating in an orderly event naked is not illegal, so long as you are wearing something, such as shoes.
== ==Toronto WNBR History== ==
We had about 40 or 50 riders on the Toronto 2004 ride from Grange Park, but had a difference of opinion from two different police divisions, so for the 2005 ride, after a lack of leadership, a meeting place, Coronation Park was chosen. It worked out well, but we weren't able to advertise in sufficient time to draw more riders. We only had 10 riders, but I think we had a great and successful ride.
I'm not able to change the meeting place information above, so on Saturday, June 10, 2006, we'll meet at Coronation Park in Toronto, on the lakefront side of Lakeshore Blvd, across but east, of the Prince's Gates to the CNE grounds. There is ample $7.00-all-day-metered parking in the park. We'll meet near the large Canadian flagpole, about 11:30a.m.. At that time, we can meet and greet each other, and eat a personally-prepared picnic lunch, while discussing the forth-coming ride. At 12:30, we'll make sure our signage and paints are in order, take some final group photos, and head out on the ride close to 1:00 p.m.
For the last two rides, we followed up the ride with a social gathering at a local restaurant. Please make sure that you have proper coverup if you intend to join us. Last year, I wore a wrap skirt, a tshirt and shoes.
Update from 2006's ride: We had police escort from 14 division and all went well. The constables, assisted us through difficult intersections and making left turns across traffic. We look forward to an increase in numbers for 2007, and we can always use ladies (clothed or parts naked) for future rides. Come on ladies; surely you too, care about the environment!
Please read the posts and view the photos of the Toronto World Naked Bike Ride Yahoo Group at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldNakedRideToronto/
edited by John aka Scoutniagara
Links
Related Websites
TNT!MEN (Totally Naked Toronto Men Enjoying Nudity)
Toronto 2005 World Naked Bike Ride: Fun and Fabulous!
TNT!MEN is famous for marching naked in the Toronto Gay Pride parade, and for convincing City Hall to declare Hanlan's Point officially clothing-optional. Members of TNT participated in both the 2004 and 2005 rides. This page includes a number of different descriptions of the 2005 ride, and provides links to galleries of pictures of the 2004 and 2005 rides in Toronto.
Discussion group/s
- WNBR Toronto Yahoo! group
