Clothing-optional bike rides

Information about Clothing-optional bike rides

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The 2005 Solstice Cyclists in Seattle June 18, 2005.
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FKK-Radtour 2001 on June 14, 2001 in Karlsruhe.
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Sydney Body Art Ride.
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FKK Rad-Classics 2005 on July 23, 2005 in Karlsruhe.
There are many clothing-optional and topfree cycling events around the world. Some rides are political, recreational, artistic or a unique combination.

Body art (such as body painting) are common forms of creative expression, as well as costumes, art bikes, portable sound reinforcement systems (such as public address systems/bullhorns, and boomboxes), musical instruments as well as other types of noisemakers.

Many of the political rides have their roots from Critical Mass and are often described or categorized as a form of political protest, street theatre, party-on-wheels, streaking, public nudity and clothing-optional recreation and thus attracts a wide-range of participants.

Clothing-optional bike ride events

Full and partial (especially topfree) nudity is encouraged, but not mandatory, on all rides. Some people ride in their underwear (also known as underwearing).

Political, and often artistic rides

Recreational rides, not overtly political

Mostly artistic, non-political rides

Topfree bike ride events

Topfreedom is allowed but full nudity is not allowed, or discouraged

Related bike ride events

  • Critical Ass is a variant of the Critical Mass bike ride, where participating bicyclists ride in their underwear (also known as underwearing) or in the nude. In June 2004, 22 world cities participated in World Naked Bike Ride, an international Critical Ass-style event. Regular Critical Ass rides have taken place in New York City, Chicago, Seattle and other locales throughout North America.[1]
  • Historically, some Critical Mass rides themselves have had incidents of full or partial nudity.

Filmography

  • Solstice: A Celebration of the Art of Bodypainting produced by James W. Taylor/Circle Rock, 2004. Includes clips of the 2003 Solstice Cyclists
  • Radtour-Classics 2001: Nackt-Radtour in und um Karlsruhe am 14. 6. 2001 A film by Karl-Heinz Kreutler.

Notes

1. ^ Eye Weekly Jun 2, 2005 (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): "Nudist Profiling," accessed on Feb 23 2006. [1]

See also

Nudity or nakedness is the state of wearing no clothing. It is sometimes used to refer to wearing significantly less clothing than expected by the conventions of a particular culture and situation, and in particular exposing the bare skin of intimate parts and has analogous
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Topfreedom is a social movement to accord women and girls the right to be topfree (topless) in public where men and boys have that right. Examples of public spaces at which topfreedom might be exercised include beaches, swimming pools and parks.
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Cycling is a means of transport, a form of recreation, and a sport. The bicycle carries riders across land, through tunnels, over bridges, snow, or, less frequently, over ice (icebiking).
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Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. Although the term is generally applied to behavior within civil governments, politics is observed in all human group interactions, including corporate, academic, and religious
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Recreation or fun is the use of time in a manner designed for therapeutic refreshment of one's body or mind. While leisure is more likely a form of entertainment or rest, recreation is active for the participant but in a refreshing and diverting manner.
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ART is a three-letter acronym that can mean:

Medicine

  • Antiretroviral therapy. It is used in the treatment of HIV infection.
  • assisted reproductive technology

Other

  • Adaptive resonance theory

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Body art is art made on, with, or consisting of, the human body. The most common forms of body art are tattoos and body piercings, but other types include scarification, branding, scalpelling, shaping (for example tight-lacing of corsets), full body tattoo and body painting.
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Body painting is a form of body art, considered by some as the most ancient form of art. Unlike tattoo and other forms of body art, body painting is temporary, painted onto the human skin, and lasts for only several hours, or at most (in the case of Mehndi or "henna tattoo") a
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costume can refer to fat people running around fattly wardrobe and dress in general, or to the distinctive style of dress of a particular people, class, or period. Costume may also refer to the artistic arrangement of accessories in a picture, statue, poem, or play, appropriate to
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art bike is generally considered to be any bicycle modified for creative purposes while still being ridable. It is considered a type of kinetic sculpture. The degree of artistic creativity and original or new functionality of art bikes varies greatly depending on the artist or
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A sound reinforcement system is an arrangement of microphones, electronic signal processors, amplifiers, and loudspeakers that makes live or pre-recorded sounds—usually music or speech— louder, or which distributes the sound to a larger or more distant audience.
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A public address or "PA" system is an electronic amplification system with a mixer, amplifier and loudspeakers, used to reinforce a given sound (e.g.,a person making a speech, prerecorded music, or message) and distributing the 'sound' to the general public around a
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megaphone, speaking-trumpet, bullhorn or loud hailer is a portable, usually hand-held, funnel-shaped device whose application is to send a person’s natural voice toward a targeted direction for a specified purpose.
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Boombox (or Boom-box) - also sometimes known as a Ghettoblaster or (in parts of Europe) "radio-cassette" - is a name given to portable stereo systems capable of playing radio stations and recorded music (usually cassettes and/or, since the early 1990's, CDs),
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A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. In principle anything that, produces sound, and can somehow be controlled by a person playing it, can serve as a musical instrument.
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critical mass is the smallest amount of fissile material needed for a sustained nuclear chain reaction. The critical mass of a fissionable material depends upon its nuclear properties (e.g. the nuclear fission cross-section), its density, its shape and its enrichment.
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Street theatre is a form of theatrical performance and presentation in outdoor public spaces without a specific paying audience. These spaces can be anywhere, including shopping centres, car parks, recreational reserves and street corners.
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Streaking is the non-sexual act of taking off one's clothes and running naked through a public place.

Definitions and etymology

The word is recorded in its modern sense only since 1973.
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Public nudity is nudity in public spaces, environments, or events. Another common reference is nude in public (NIP). It can also refer to clothing-optional activities on public lands.
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Freedom
By concept
Philosophical freedom Political freedom Liberty
By form
Assembly Association Body: clothing, modifying From government Movement Press Religion and beliefs Speech & expression Thought
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Topfreedom is a social movement to accord women and girls the right to be topfree (topless) in public where men and boys have that right. Examples of public spaces at which topfreedom might be exercised include beaches, swimming pools and parks.
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Nudity or nakedness is the state of wearing no clothing. It is sometimes used to refer to wearing significantly less clothing than expected by the conventions of a particular culture and situation, and in particular exposing the bare skin of intimate parts and has analogous
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Undergarments, also called "underwear", "underpants," "lingerie", or "panties" (undergarments for women), or sometimes "intimate clothing", and "pants" or "knickers" in British English, are clothes worn next to the skin, usually under other clothes.
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World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) is an international event in which participants plan, meet and ride together en masse on human-powered transport (the vast majority on bicycles, and fewer on skateboards, roller blades, roller skates) to "protest oil dependency and celebrate
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"Plus Ultra"   (Latin)
"Further Beyond"
Anthem
"Marcha Real" 1
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Nackt-Radtour, Karlsruher FKK Rad-Classics and Karlsruher Nacktradeltour are references used to describe annual naked cycling tours in Germany, many of which happen around Karlsruhe. Organizers describe the event as recreational rather than political.
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