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Welcome to the Edinburgh WNBR official webpages.
Please help with this years GREAT ride!
Check out our photos to help you decide
Questions? We'll probably have contact info here eventually, but for now you can just register (see next paragraph).
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.
Please donate to the WNBR UK Fund
The UK World Naked Bike Ride fund meets the cost of insuring rides
across the UK, and provides local organisers with money for
poster/flyer printing, advertising, ride equipment etc.
Please give generously.
Next ride
Date: 13 June 2009 (self organising)
Time: 3pm
Location: Middle Meadow Walk, Edinburgh
Ride information
Legality
Unlike the rest of the UK where public nudity is 'legal-ish' in this kind of context, in Scotland the laws are enforced to their illogical conclusion. At the time of writing, Stephen Gough (the naked rambler) is in prison on a charge of 'Breach of the Peace'. Stephen is the extreme example, but the unfortunate fact is that anyone turning up completely nude will be risking arrest.
Decoration
The police will arrest anyone totally starkers for breach of the peace. What's the point? i hear you say, well we can still have fun, get painted up, put a sock on your cock, tassels on your nipples and show that there is nothing wrong with nudity, but by forcing us to cover up, we are only highlighting our fun *private parts*. Be as inventive as you can be, cover up in the smallest possible way, or totally exxxxagerate what you already have.
It is a completely ridiculous stance by the police (not law, just the stance of the LBP), and the only one of it's kind in the UK. Another step forward in the right to express ourselves eh chaps?
Photography
Edinburgh prefers riders rather than photographers. Rider-photographers are OK but we will probably be using the London photography policy unless posted otherwise. That means if your photography behaviour is unwelcome, you'll be required to leave.
Directions
Middle Meadow Walk is a long tree lined avenue through the Meadows Park. At the north end of the Walk is Teviot Place and at the south end is Argyle Place. Here is a link to the map and here is a map of the Meadows. Here is an excellent photograph that shows what Middle Meadows Walk looks like.
Publicise the ride
Please help get the word out about this ride. Circulate leaflets. These may be available for collection from a central Edinburgh location (TBA). We'll put a downloadable version here shortly.
Get involved
If you want to get more actively involved in the ride, register your interest in the ride at [1]. Also please join the yahoo group for General UK rides announcements and discussion
History
2008
Sunday 29 June 2008
Ride report:
2004
A partially-clothed WNBR took place in Edinburgh on 12 June 2004 and it had more participants than the London ride on the same day. At least one rider participated in both rides!
Photos
2008
Media coverage
2008 coverage
- The Herald, 24 May 2008: "Cyclists’ naked ambition to take to the capital’s streets" by Brian Donnelly
2004 coverage
- Scotsman, 11 Jun 2004: "The naked truth" (Opinion piece)
- BBC News, 12 Jun 2004: "Protest cyclists opt to cover up"
- Sunday Herald, 13 Jun 2004: "Edinburgh covers up after protests"
- Scotsman, 14 Jun 2004: "Barely no trouble at naked ride"
Links
Websites
- WNBR Edinburgh (previous official site)
- Critical Mass Edinburgh
- WNBR UK (This page has FAQ info and links to the other UK rides)
See also United Kingdom page
Discussion group/s
- WNBR UK Yahoo! group for Announcements and discussion of all UK rides.
See also United Kingdom page
Location information
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