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They're for waving too and there's a lot of it about at The Last Night Of The Proms. Sounds a bit like prompt and them as perceive nowt but naked nationalism can't resist the one that prompts "Ban the Banner". NO! It's about waving flags, except in 2016 when, Referendum - prompted, a troubled bunch of sore losers offered EU flags to queueing Promenaders.

Not many takers! Just as well too! The Royal Albert Hall was awash with waves of Multinational Folk having a bloody good time and waving International Colour to prove it. The drab EU effort just doesn't hack it. D&G can do much better and flew these two at York.

CARDIFF was on the CARDS That's what did it. As D&G planned their WNBR programme for 2017, Cardiff was in-penciiled in pen. Wales is a longish way from D&G's CUMBRIA home, but CUMBRIA isn't far from CAMBRIA in spirit. Same place really, separated by millennia rather than miles. How to connect? Obvious ... The Welsh (Cambrian) Flag and the Cumbrian Flag ... Fly 'em together, combine 'em in a bike decoration. And they did. Meant purchasing cycle flag poles, (cheap, excellent, intended for childs and on-line gettable), conjuring up other flags for other WNBRides and providing a title for Diane to apply to this web page. But first .... BRIGHTON.

Gene took RECYCLING to Brighton. No clothes riding is one thing, no hands with a laden handlebar basket is summat else! Y' can't just let go to sit up and give y' back a rest. 2-tier handlebars; that's the answer. G found the 2nd tier on a kiddie-trike that predates Martin.

Click these pics, then stop & do summat else!

Like ... consider how to video a bike ride from a bike?
Hand held? ... dodgy! Helmet mounted? Sounds rude & view follows (a) eyes of wearer & (b) same riders. So ..

.. Mount camera on bike .. needs shock absorption technology. D&G's? Cheap mini tripod & length of foam pipe insulation.
Click pics in order for instructions

The contrivance can quickly be transferred between handlebars, (same or different bike) and will be upside down facing forwards or backwards depending on right or left handlebar grip. (Resulting video easily inverted in Windows Movie Maker). Worked in trials in D&G's Cumbrian village, less well in Brighton amid dictating bikes. See video on this page. But .. don't blame D&G if your camera falls off!

Brighton WNBR Sunday 11th June 2017

Gene cocked up cycle computer info. Forgot to detach it from bike before further cyclism. But route (clickable programme L) same as 2015 & 16 (better clicked '15's prog, see A Pair of Aces). Bit of a breeze blew in fine dry weather, improving to end finest for D&G's sea paddle in socks et. al. at Black Rock, with icecream to follow. Then on-Pier Fish & Chips in clothes.

D&G went with 2016's Rock & Roll theme; revamped design needing Rainbow flag; not your linear 6-colour job flying in the face of tradition's ROYGBIV arc and printed on Ripstop D&G's design JPEG uploaded on-line, (see slideshow above). Brighton's rider numbers, sex mix & carnival atmosphere keep it with the best. Hove Lawns music & Phantom Limbs Old Steine & Black Rock. (Video).

CONTRADO

Brighton WNBR 2017

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621311

621311 … A simple alphabet number code deciphered in English as follows …
62 doesn’t exist so first is 6.
Vowel(s) cannot be 5, 9 or 15 so must be 1 and/or 21.
No known sensible example of 2 following 6 so 21 follows 6.
31 doesn’t exist so 3 follows 21.
Common conclusion 1 following 1 unknown so probably 11.
Solution … A well-known 4-letter word beginning with F. ….. 6-21-3-11.

Thing is WNBR organisers (rightly) bang on about stuff like not letting your Sticky-out/Tucky-in “loose”, (where forward slash = “stroke”, which therefore reads “Sticky-out stroke tucky-in”, which is precisely what you’re not supposed to let ‘em even suggest/pretend to do, let alone stroke, let more alone actually do, which in any case is enshrined in Law independent of WNBR dictate), but they seem to give not a 621311-ing toss if, as is oft the case, WNBRiders daub “621311” on their bodies. At Brighton 2017 some 621311-ing intellectual tested his limits with “621311 TRUMP” on an otherwise undistinguished back. 621311-ing Hell! Doesn’t he realise that … it’s just an opinion and as such speaks about him (or his back) and not about his target … if you’ve never heard of Trump, you have now …and … 621311 is not a “family friendly” word? So why does WNBR tolerate 621311? Yea! Why?
And another thing … WNBR Photography Policy. It’s down to the Law, not WNBR. Anyone can photograph what he/she likes in a public place. So if you don’t want your Sticky-out(s)/Tucky-in digitalised, don’t get ‘em out/in, as in … don’t go WNBR-ing!

Cardiff WNBR Saturday 17th June 2017

Gene's uncocked-up cycle computer info:
9.34 miles, Riding time 1hr. 40 min. Average speed 5.6mph.
Maximum speed 11.3mph. Approx 50 minutes stops.
Lovely weather, good route (except*) with intimate public contact and excellent public reaction (except*.) About 150 riders, (needed more females … angen mwy o fenywod ... in Welsh!)

Cumberland

Cumbria

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Some reckon 1974’s County Creation/Cockup definitive, but barmy conclusions abound if administrative clout is/was criterion … like Liverpool ain’t in Lancashire, nor Newcastle Northumberland. Worse … York isn’t in Yorkshire, which doesn’t/didn’t exist! Here’s the thing. It’s bollocks! The historic/traditional/ceremonial/stuff ’74 counties have existed for (mostly) a millennium, identify folkly and are enjoying current flag identity. So old, revitalised Cumberland’s new flag ain’t the same as Cumbria’s. So pay attention! They’re similar. D&G flew Cumbria’s in Cardiff. Click 'em

Cardiff WNBR 2017

* Exception … 1st stop Callaghan Sq. fountain dipping unopposed, attempted 2nd R Taff dip disastrous. Fave family fun Blackweir paddle zone resisted vociferously with pebble pelting reinforcement as riders retreated single file à pied across the optionless bridge. WNBR success needs public acceptance … so don’t confront ‘em! Don't nudely invade their leisure time. Ride naked to entertain. Court applause, 'cos "Naked" ain't "Normal", body paint slogan or not.

Bare As You Dare (1) Cardiff 2017, a first for D&G and (to date) the only non-English UK WNBR. Eh? What about Edinburgh? Auld Reekie's definitely not in England. It definitely doesn’t have a Naked Bike Ride either, despite half a dozen-plus attempts. Key to Naked Bike Ride is “Naked”, which, however you look at it means sticking out your “Sticky-out” and/or untucking your “Tucky-in”. The Scottish Fuzz insists on zipped sporranettes* and cabers safely untossable at all times! Independence beckons!
* It’s OK for blokes to wear skirts in Scotland. Women can wear ‘em too, but not of the same (male) ilk (i.e. kilts). As for sporrans, to wear one traditionally in front of and supported by your caber, it (caber) has to be large, so yer heelan’ lassie has nay chance. Or so says Caledonia Law. Ne’ertheless feministism is powerful these days and many a feminismist will say, “Ovaries to that, Pal!” So what’s the female equivalent of sporran? “Sporranette” here suggested really implies “titchy”. For non-tartan speakers that’s Gaelic for “small” (sporran). So taking reduced supporting caber requirement to its limit “sporranette” is a female sporran.

Bare As You Dare (2) To 25-6-17 date (alphabumerically) … Brighton (3), London (3), York (2), Bristol (1), Cambridge (1), Canterbury (1), Cardiff (1), Manchester (1), Newcastle/Gateshead (1) … D&G had 9-venued - 14-riden naked, with hats/wigs, shoes, socks, jewels, sunglogs, nail varnish, and etc. (all or some), which did nowt to diminish their nudeness, ‘cos they had naughty bits out. That’s what counts, y’see, but when a 3rd York 25-6-17 materialised one day after D’s annual remote cousin gathering, (aka NQDY = Not Quite Dead Yet) in Ripon, D&G decided to go as bare as dare as possible … and they did! All it needed was sun lotion on G’s unhaired head and a x2 bare foot pedal modification x2
York WNBR Sunday 25th June 2017
Gene's cycle computer info 7.06 miles,
Riding time 1 hr. 16 min.
Average speed 5.5mph. Maximum speed 10.3mph.

D's (L) & G's pedal covers to protect nude feet and enable York total nudity, feet included. Click 'em!

D's (L) & G's cycle

decorations pre posh up = Birthday Suit theme + flags top of page. Click de pics!

STOPS at St. Helen's Square & Eye of York

York WNBR 2017

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D&G's 3rd York ride, route different from 2013 & '14, weather OK becoming OK-er to end OK+. About 85 riders, mostly lads, alas! Just prior to ride start G's rear tyre deflated, but remained inflated on reflation! Mystery! During ride G's handlebar basket came loose. Disaster averted by traffic light intervention allowing refix! York's WNBR prob ... approach blinkered, belligerent and humourless. Vigil in St. Helen's Square a morbid farce ignored by half the riders, never mind the public! C'mon! Lighten up! Make 'em laugh, but not at you!

Bare As You Dare (3) This from Clacton Police on Clacton WNBR’s Wiki page …Please be aware that if any item of clothing is worn by a person other than socks, shoes, hats and gloves then either the female or male genitalia must be covered ... It’s intended to mean that you can’t wear a boiler suit along with your diving helmet, beekeeping gauntlets and footie boots and leave your knob or equivalent sticking out or equivalent. What it actually says is that if you’re a hermaphrodite you must, (under socks et al. provisions) cover either your knob, or equivalent, but not both, so you’ve got, not only freedom, but choice of which you wanna be. If you’re not a hermaphrodite you can wave anything about ‘cos it clearly doesn’t apply to you! Right? OK!

Traffic Lights D&G did the Traffic Light theme in York (2013) and D suggested a repeat for Clacton 2017. The challenge of Clacton lay in the nonsense in the text above, et al. Turned out to be overkill! Never mind. D&G designed 5 traffic light flags (see left) and had 2 of them Contrado Ripstop printed to bike fly at Clacton. They chose 4&5. Which would you have picked? And .....

Clacton WNBR Saturday 15th July 2017 (A fastly ride!)
Cycle computer info, 7.8 miles. Riding time 57½ mins. Average speed 8.1mph, Maximum speed 14.4mph. The ride stopped briefly three times. Weather dull but dry. Clacton anti-nudity campaign incentive fired D to ignite G re York 2013 Traffic Light resurrection as said. D&G's smallest ride to date (20 riders) with 3 naked females =15%=pretty good=challenge to yer feministismists.

.... which is Number 1? Identify D&G's flags from the pic gallery below & note traffic light bike decorations .... mighta made good flags!

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One of the stops was a group photoshoot in front of the Town Hall. D&G thunk to Cock a Snook at The Councillor, or maybe Snook a Cock (or 17), but the assembled group shot isn't included here. Diane on her own is. Gene on his tod shoulda been, but it turned out too blurred to make out his snook.

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and read 'em in reaadable form. After that click this,
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Brighton WNBR Cardiff WNBR York WNBR Clacton WNBR
Sunday 11th June Saturday 17th June Sunday 25th June Saturday 15th July
2017 2017 2017 2017

D&G's WNBR Record
to 2017 inclusive.
5 years
10 venues
16 rides

Note ... Newcastle is listed as such for convenience of space, but is officially Newcastle Gateshead.
In the Wiki List of Rides Brighton appears as Brighton & Hove, but their programme is Hove-less.

D&G’s WNBR YouTube Videos (Up to and including 2017)

Diane and Gene have made and posted four videos of WNBR’s they have participated in :-
1. World Naked Bike Ride London and York 2013 22 minutes 28 seconds Uploaded 23-7-13 Age restricted. *
2. WNBR 2015 Rest Stops 3 minutes 18 seconds Uploaded 7-7-15 Contains copyrighted material. **
3. Music at Brighton WNBR 2016 5 minutes 1 second Uploaded 30-7-16 Age restricted. *
4. Brighton Rock and Roll 11 minutes 48 seconds Uploaded 18-7-17 Contains copyrighted material. **
* Age restriction of 18 years minimum imposed by YouTube. D&G have no idea why two of their videos "escaped".
** Copyrighted material consists of recorded music being played in public by ride participants et al. not by D&G who simply captured it.
A different two videos "escaped" but D&G's "no idea" remains the same. Another D&G "no idea" concerns the differences in success rate measured by number of views. All four videos appear on this website, the last on this page. YouTube (thehumangenehome) links :-