Naked bike ride

Back to the OP, from a practical viewpoint since they weren't carrying clothes with them, and they were probably on a bit of a high after competing the event, if they were going to hang around ( no pun intended) afterwards then it would have to be naked.
I wonder how they get back to their cars/tube home without having clothes with them?

They do it in Manchester as well. It's predominantly white middle aged men, you get the feeling they're mainly doing it in the hope of checking out any women daft enough to join in.

Each to their own I guess but perhaps not inflicting it on others? I dunno, it doesn't offend me as such, but I wouldn't do it myself personally. Knowing what pervs some men can be.

My sister did (notUK) it a few years ago, and said it was about even male/female — said it felt fun and liberating. There’s usually an after-party of some kind, so maybe that’s what you saw when you were interested enough to start measuring penises?

Because the naked body leaks things and can spread diseases by contact. Because genitals look ugly. Because we've evolved to wear clothes.

Looks like they had fun. I don’t understand people’s shock and disgust at the naked body, bike seat germs notwithstanding.

Mumsnet has removed it. People are too precious to be laughed at nowadays. Also no care\empathy emoji.

It's not, they're not and the police are aware of the whole event

There were quite a lot of women, I haven't seen the whole event but I would hazard a fair guess that there wasn't a "disproportionate amount" of white, middle aged men

And just as an aside, there are non-white cultures who view nudity completely different to our somewhat repressed view here

I remember being sat outside Wahaca on South Bank with my family when the naked cyclists started going past. It was years ago and we still laugh about it today.

I keep threatening my teenager that I’ll join in 😄

Almost spat out my brew!!! Hahaha!

I didn't hear about the bike ride, but as a teenager lived next to a nudist commune who were constantly at our local lake I liked to swim in, and my favourite beach was essentially taken over by nudists (not UK). It was pretty much exclusively middle aged men in both cases.

Seeing 50 year old men playing ping pong or throwing frisbees, genitals swinging, as a 14 year old was not pleasant 😬

Literally 😜

It's an oil Protest which appears to be working as we are all talking about it

Is there a correlation between cycling and micropenises? I guess hung guys might find bike saddles problematic maybe 🤔

It’s exhibitionism. They’re a bunch of filthy perves who should be arrested for indecent exposure.

So you’re fine with exhibitionists co-opting non consenting bystanders into their kink/fetish? I’m not.

But why would it really matter if they are exhibitionists doing it for kicks when the whole point is to be naked with people looking at you?

I saw the one in Manchester a few years ago ago

the crowd /spectators were hilarious everyone laughing and cheering great atmosphere

MBChB so quite a bit. Even flashers can have erectile dysfunction.

Bring back shaming of things that should be shameful I say. If something needs normalising it’s usually because it’s not normal.

It's more often that not men rather than woman.

🤣🤣

I find it interesting these naked events tend to have a disproportionate amount of middle-aged white men taking part. See also nudist beaches and naturism. I’m sure most of them don’t have any nefarious intentions but it’s an interesting phenomenon nonetheless!

As long as they wiped the seat down after with some anti bac.

Sounds rank. Imagine falling from your bike naked. Idiots.

DH and I were in London a few years ago and the naked bike ride rode past us - I got a great selfie of the pair of us laughing as we watched it go by

i did a photo frame for my nan’s 90th at the end of June that year, one pic of each kid, one of me, one of DH and I, and I thought ‘oooh, I’ll use that nice laughing London photo!’

It wasn’t until after nan died six months later and I took the frame home (it had been sat on her coffee table for carers/visitors/numerous doctors to admire) that I realised there was a solitary bloke with his arse out, balls swinging, pedalling his boris bike who had snuck in the side of the shot 🙄🤣

Oooops. Still, he remains in the frame on my dressing table to this day.