The World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) is an optional summer cycling abroad opportunity that takes place in 80 cities in 20 countries.
This year was no exception, however, due to coronavirus and blocking restrictions in many places, the 2020 edition had a more modest participation rate.
“This year, to abide by the rules of social estrangement from coronaviruses, revealing cyclists have traveled the city in small packages,” the Picayune Times reported on New Orleans in June. “Many wore a mask and at least one runner took the opportunity to express their loyalty to the Black Lives Matter movement.”
London, home to one of the most popular years of naked motorcycles on motorcycles, opted for a virtual edition that included zoom discussions, photo contests and even an online party.
Toronto, which also organized a smaller edition of the event, presented to his career an irreverent logo: “Less gas, more ass.”
The Spanish logo in Madrid this year was ”Naked before traffic.”
Naked Bike Ride participants strip naked to symbolize the vulnerability of cyclists on the road, celebrate freedom and protest against car culture. Or, as the organizers explain, “end the indecent exposure” of other people and the planet to cars, pollutants and violence.”
What to wear? Don’t be afraid, advise the organizers: “The World Naked Bike Ride, the dress code is “As Bare As You Dare” and you can come with other people who skateboard, curl or run.” Is he naked? How dare you? It’s all up to you. With what you’re comfortable with. No one is excluded or discriminated against the basis of clothing, frame painting or anything else! “
Here are the world Naked Bike Ride movements #WorldNakedBikeRide in the words of the organizers:
I am a freelance journalist from Colombo-Luxembourg, a determined traveller founded on the world’s only Grand Duchy. I’m writing a column on European affairs
I am a freelance journalist from Colombo-Luxembourg, a determined traveller founded on the world’s only Grand Duchy. I am writing a column on European affairs for the editorial page of El Tiempo, Colombia’s leading newspaper. I have been a Newsweek columnist and have written for, among others, the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune and Toronto Globe-Mail.