Naked Bike Ride 2009 |
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Pohara - Saturday 14 March 2009
The famous Golden Bay World Naked Bike Ride 2009 ride was from Tarakoe to Pohara. Great prizes were won and more awareness raised about our need for safe cycling in Golden Bay and around the world. Clothing optional global event and meaningful fun.
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The World Naked Bike Ride Message
The message of WNBR focuses on promoting cycling.
"Our message to the world is one of simplification, human harmony and love. For a future to exist for tomorrows generations, we have to stop wasting the life blood energy of the Earth, stop fighting and killing in the name of consumerist wealth accumulation and learn to love and respect all life on this planet." – Conrad Schmidt, founder of The Work Less Party and Artists for Peace and WNBR and organizer for WNBR Vancouver, BC.
It's time to put a stop to the indecent exposure of people and the planet to cars and the pollution they create. We face automobile traffic with our naked bodies as the best way of defending our dignity and exposing the vulnerability faced by cyclists and pedestrians on our streets as well as the negative consequences we all face due to dependence on oil, and other forms of non-renewable energy.
Body image/self awareness. Cycling promotes body awareness, the fact that one can achieve a more healthy lifestyle from the exercise we achive by using self-powered transport.
Self-sufficiency. Cycling makes us non-renewable energy sources, less dependent on oil.
Less is more. WNBR strips the complexities from modern transport to a simplified message of cycling. For the vast majority of most peoples' transport needs, cycles are the right vehicle for the right job. "You don't need a wheelbarrow to carry a pea".
Community-building. Bicycles create public space, enhance street life and build a sense of community - "If you see someone you know while riding, it's easy to stop and say hello. Bicycles create public space, enhance street life and build a sense of community"– Go By Bicycle
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