Brighton Naked Bike Ride
On Sunday 9 June, Brighton's streets will be flooded by bare bodies on bikes for Brighton's annual Naked Bike Ride. Now in it’s eighth year, Brighton's Naked Bike ride is joining 50 other locations around the world to protest against car-dominated public space, air pollution, climate change and conflict over diminishing oil resources and to celebrate body-powered transport.
The bike ride is a family friendly part of national Bike Week. If you would like to take part, please gather at Preston Park (BN1 6DT) from 12 noon on Sunday 9 June. The ride is a 9 mile round trip of "naked sightseeing" and following negotiations with Sussex Police, full nudity is permitted at the event.
In 2012, atmospheric carbon dioxide records reached a new high at 394 parts per million, compared to less than 320ppm in 1960.
Co-organiser, Duncan Blinkhorn, said: *"It is exciting to see the progress being made across the city to enable more people to lighten up and get on their bikes. With new cycle lanes along Old Shoreham Road and Lewes Road, improvements to junctions including Seven Dials, cycle contra-flows in the North Laine, accessible training and advice, and 20 mph speed limits, Brighton & Hove is showing other towns and cities what can be achieved.
World Naked Bike Ride is the ultimate safety-in-numbers experience. We demonstrate that even with the vulnerability of being naked, together we can feel confident and have great fun cycling in the city. Research shows that if more people cycle, the safer and more confident they become on the road, emboldening others to have a go.”*
Alice Pickering, co-founder of Cranks community DIY bike workshop, will be joining the ride for the first time this year. She said: "I'm looking forward to riding bikes together in the buff. It looks like an amazingly liberating and humanising activity!"
To find out more about Brighton's Naked Bike Ride, please visit their website http://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org/wiki/Brighton or visit their Facebook page
DATE: Sunday 9 June
TIME: 12 noon onwards
VENUE: Preston Park, BN1 6DT
COST: Free
