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Participants in the World Naked Bike Ride in , one of the largest and most famous internationally. Other non-motorized riders including and , as well as runners, are also welcome to participate.
The World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) is an international in which participants plan, meet and ride together on (the vast majority on , but some on and ), to “deliver a vision of a cleaner, safer, body-positive world.” The largest iteration of the WNBR in the world takes place in averaging approximately 10,000 participants and thousands of spectators.
The first naked ride happened in () in 2001. In 2003, conceived the World Naked Bike Ride after organizing the Naked Bike Rides of the group Artists for Peace/Artists Against War (AFP/AAW). Initially, the message of the WNBR was protesting against oil dependency and celebrating the power and individuality of the human body. In 2006, there was a shift towards simplifying the message and focusing on cycling advocacy. , the organizer of the 2005 WNBR in , and the first to be arrested during a WNBR event, is credited with going further and refocusing on the issue on moving away from dependency in the context of . He urged: “Stop the indecent exposure to vehicle emissions.”
Two male riders were arrested during the 2005 WNBR in , New Hampshire, and charged with “indecent exposure and lewdness”. The two riders agreed to having the charges reduced to “disorderly conduct” and paid a $300 fine, the majority of which was paid for by the WNBR Legal Defense Fund. Six male riders were charged with during the 2005 WNBR ride and later prosecuted with sentences ranging from fines and non-expungeable conviction to three months of court supervision. In 2007, during the first World Naked Bike ride in Denver, Colorado police surrounded the bike riders and wrote several people tickets. During the WNBR held on June 12, 2010, two men were arrested by at in , Washington.
Naked Bike Ride shocks Mexico into thinking about the environment
