Sydney WNBR

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Join us for 2021 World Naked Bike Ride Sydney, a public awareness demonstration for bike safety, body positivity, and the environment.
We will begin assembling at 11am as many will be getting body painted. We plan to ride off at 12noon and return around 1:30pm.
Bring a bike, a helmet and help us stay COVID safe by staying home if you feel unwell. Plan to enjoy the ride but it’s not for fitness as we’ll be riding slowly and safely.

Link to offical event https://facebook.com/events/s/world-naked-bike-ride-sydney/2936654573275615/

Melbourne WNBR

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RIDE DATE ANNOUNCED

The 2021 World Naked Bike Ride Melbourne is planned for 5th December 2021. Put the date in your diary now. The ride was originally scheduled for 28th February 2021, but postponed until December due to Coronavirus restrictions.

Please keep an eye on our website
https://www.wnbrmelbourne.com.au
and subscribe to receive our email newsletters for updates, and importantly, for any last minute change which sometimes are necessary.

For those that have previously participated in World Naked Bike Ride Melbourne, there will be a number of changes this year. Even more reason to keep an eye on the website and newsletters.

Be prepared to have a great day out!

Link to official event page: https://facebook.com/events/s/2021-world-naked-bike-ride-mel/433679507803858/

World Naked Bike Ride Byron Bay 2017

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This was last years WNBR at Byron Bay… can’t wait till 2 weeks time to do it again! #WNBR #ByronBay #NudeNotRude #Australia

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Well, this weekend I’m headed out on a road trip…. I’m driving about 12 hours in my petrol powered automobile to participate in a bicycle ride that had its origins as a protest against fossil fuel use… Am I being a hypocrite?

Well seeing as there’s no nearer WNBR to me as the Sydney one can’t get police approval (threats of arrest are real) if I flew by plane it would use a lot more fuel than my 4 cylinder car would anyway.

Besides the mission has changed a little these days and now the emphasis is on raising awareness of bike safety to point out how vulnerable bike riders are as well as to show body diversity and body acceptance… Or just an excuse to get naked 😉

Here’s an article about the Byron Bay as well as Nimbin & Lismore rides this weekend.
http://www.echo.net.au/2017/03/nude-cyclists-spread-love-across-north-coast/

I’m planning on doing…

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Nudity, Censorship and Discrimination

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And yet, Facebook continues to discriminate against a minority group. Naturists were once treated with the same level of condemnation and hostility as the LGBT community. Like social lepers, early nudists lived as outcasts, in the most isolated parts of the country, and were subject to police raids and arrests, even when their activities were hidden behind closed doors. Most naturists I know do not tell people what they do on weekends. Many of us live in a state of worry (I know I do) over how we might be judged. I have met people who traveled outside the country just to be free of clothing, yet refuse to visit the club a mile from their house for fear of being discovered. I have known people who have lost their jobs because of their online naturist profiles. But while acceptance of the LGBT community continues to grow, naturists remain marginalized and misrepresented. By acting on our beliefs, we risk placement on the Sex Offender Registry List,

Source: Nudity, Censorship and Discrimination

Tyagarah lake, Australia

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I checked this lake out last Sunday morning, and now this article pops up 🙂

Active Naturists

Tyagarah Lake is located in Northern New South Wales, Australia, about a 30 drive minutes from well known Byron Bay (and the very popular naturist spot Kings Beach). It is a picturesque small freshwater lake just minutes from the beach. A much larger lake is across the road next it but this is swampy and inaccessible.

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Tyagarah Lake is a popular spot for locals and not a known tourist spot, as it’s off the main highway, on a dirt road and not near any towns.  But it is still easy to get to: turn off the Pacific Highway onto Greys Lane and follow it as it turns into a dirt road on the way to Tyagarah Nature reserve beach. Before you make it to the beach you will see cars parked on the road.

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Look for the Tyagarah Nature reserve signs to find the path in.  It’s only a very…

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World Naked Bike Ride Byron Bay 2017

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Well, this weekend I’m headed out on a road trip…. I’m driving about 12 hours in my petrol powered automobile to participate in a bicycle ride that had its origins as a protest against fossil fuel use… Am I being a hypocrite?

Well seeing as there’s no nearer WNBR to me as the Sydney one can’t get police approval (threats of arrest are real) if I flew by plane it would use a lot more fuel than my 4 cylinder car would anyway.

Besides the mission has changed a little these days and now the emphasis is on raising awareness of bike safety to point out how vulnerable bike riders are as well as to show body diversity and body acceptance… Or just an excuse to get naked 😉

Here’s an article about the Byron Bay as well as Nimbin & Lismore rides this weekend.
http://www.echo.net.au/2017/03/nude-cyclists-spread-love-across-north-coast/

 

I’m planning on doing a few live Facebook videos (have to be careful where I point my camera!) as well as having a GoPro camera running on my bike, so watch this space!

UPDATE: my report on how it all went down…

So next time I go away to Byron Bay I think I had better plan things better before driving 875KM to attend a bike ride around the streets of Byron 🤔

1) Take a helmet… On the morning of the event I was at the beach and met another attendee and he said “did you bring a bike helmet?… Doh! So then I raced down to Ballina (30KM drive) to get a helmet….. Turns out not many people had helmets anyway 😬

2) Make sure the bike tyres are in a good state, I had pumped up the tyres a month before the ride and the front was a little low but when I pumped it up before leaving home it seemed ok and was low again when I got to Byron so I pumped it up again on the morning of the ride and thought “She’ll be right mate” However 10mins before the start it was dead flat, so as everyone was assembling to start the ride I pumped it up again with my electric pump… Then 5mins later it was flat so I had to push it around the streets (that’s the rattling/flapping noise in the video.

But it was a fantastic day… thousands of people filled the streets with their camera phones pointed at the 240 or so riders/skateboarders/walkers as we did two laps of Byron Bay township.

I not once saw an angry or offended face and no children where harmed by seeing naked bodies.

There was a great diversity of people there, old/young large/small all celebrating the freedom and even the cars trying to get through the streets gave way to cyclists which was the main aim of the event to draw attention to the fact that bikes are vulnerable.

Looking forward to the next one on Sunday 11th March 2018!

Link below to GoPro video filmed from my bikes handlebars…..as I pushed my bike two laps around the Byron Bay streets around with a flat front tyre 😦

2017 BYRON BAY WORLD NAKED BIKE RIDE 

Links to live Facebook videos I posted to my Naturist news page:

FACEBOOK LIVE VIDEO ONE

FACEBOOK LIVE VIDEO TWO