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Northern exposure this year!

Welcome to the Manchester Naked Bike Ride official web pages.

2009 may go down inhistory as the strangest ride yet. Reaction was fantastic, the ride was great fun and everything was perfect. Then due to a failure of communication the police stopped us! They really boobed! Don't worry folks, that won't happen again. We've sorted everything out with the police and this year's ride will be even better! they've even offered us an escort.

Please join us or help with this year's ride (2010). Check out our photos to help you decide. http://www.flickr.com/groups/753338@N24/

Questions? Contact Seán 07906 086 128 or email [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.

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Next ride

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Date: Friday 11 June 2010
Time: 6pm assembly for 7pm departure
Location: All Saints Park (near MMU), Oxford Road, Manchester.

Ride details

Duration

The ride will probably take about an hour. Meet at 6pm and set off at 7pm or just after.

Dress code

In previous years, police have OK'd the ride, so be ready to ride as bare as you dare. If you want to go for some kind of costume really go to town, colourful and eye-catching. Be imaginative and creative. It's a lot of fun, the people of Manchester loved us last 4 years.

Photography

Manchester prefers riders rather than photographers. If you want to photograph people before or after the ride ASK THEM. If they say no then don't, if they say yes go ahead. Simples!

Directions

The park is on Oxford Road close to Manchester Metroploitan University, between the BBC and the larger University of Manchester.

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 get in touch with Seán (details above). We'll put a downloadable version here shortly.

Poster

For the 2009 ride, some A4 posters have been printed. If more are needed, a PDF file can be downloaded from

for printing locally.

Get involved

If you want to get more actively involved in the ride, please join the Yahoo! or/and Facebook groups -

General UK rides discussion Manchester ride planning. Our Facebook group

Ride reports

2009

The weather was perfect, the riders were exceptional and the starting point was lovely. We rode in joy and fun and lots of noise for almost the whole route and the crowds loved us. It all went a bit pear-shaped on Portland Street when some well-intentioned but sadly ill-informed constabulary stopped the ride and tried to make us get dressed. We undressed around the corner anyway, and we did get a lot of wonderful media coverage. The police later apologised in writing as the ride had been OK'd by them previously. They agreed to accompany the Ride in future as they do at Naked Rides in other cities, so there will be no problems next year.”


2008

Well ....despite pretty nipply weather that gave some of us the willies, we still managed to have a great night cycling naked around our lovely city. Thankfully it didn't rain.

We've had lots of attention from the press again with a great report from Granada http://www.itvlocal.com/granada/news/?player=GRA_News_15&void=201440 Look out for an article in Manchester evening news and a couple of other local papers, plus lots of radio coverage. It was great to have people travel all the way from Liverpool, Bolton, Blackburn and of course the riders from the York ride, we even had a runner who had come all the way from Belgium!

From applause on Canal Street, to teenagers running in excited fear, I think we all deserve a city wide cheer. Well done to all those who took part, it was a great atmosphere and I'm happy to say on final count we estimated there were about 80+ of us.

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

2009

  • [1]Manchester Evening news

2008

2007

(someone needs to google this and find the previous ride coverage)

2006

Photos

General links

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Videos

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Links

Website/s

  • Manchester This page (official site)
  • WNBR United Kingdom (This page has FAQ info and links to the other UK rides)
  • I BIKE MCR - An amazing annual cycling festival and diverse events and rides in Manchester throughout the year. I Bike MCR seeks to promote cycling as a form of transport and as something fun.

Discussion group/s

See also United Kingdom page

Location information

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