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World Naked Bike Ride festival set to hold despite Covid-19 pandemic (Photos)

World Naked Bike Ride festival set to hold despite Covid-19 pandemic

Organizers of the World Naked Bike Ride Festival, a yearly festival
that sees thousands of nude cyclists baring it all as they ride through
cities around the world, have announce that the festival will be held
this year, despite the Coronavirus pandemic.

They say since this year’s been affected by the coronavirus pandemic, 2020’s event will be a little bit different.

 World Naked Bike Ride festival set to hold despite Covid-19 pandemic

According to the organizers, instead of gathering at a set location
and time, anyone who wishes to participate are simply encouraged to
strip down, hop on, and ride wherever and whenever they’d like

World Naked Bike Ride festival set to hold despite Covid-19 pandemic

Several cities including St. Louis, London and San Francisco have
cancelled the festival this year, but Portland, Oregon, chapter says
it’s edition will hold in June this year.

World Naked Bike Ride festival set to hold despite Covid-19 pandemic

                     

Posting on it’s official website, they wrote;

“The World Naked Bike Ride is an annual, worldwide bike ride that
highlights the vulnerability of cyclists everywhere and decries
society’s dependence on pollution-based transport. It’s also a lot of
fun and it’s free for all!”

“This year there will be no start location or start time due to
Covid-19. Instead, riders are encouraged to celebrate World Naked Bike
Ride DAY — riding wherever they’d like whenever they’d like on June
27th. Stay safe. Have fun.”

World Naked Bike Ride festival set to hold despite Covid-19 pandemic

Last month organizers signaled this year’s event might be different, a little more social distancing than usual.

“We simply must put the safety of Portlanders first,” organizers
wrote in a Facebook post at the time. “We are bigger than the virus, and
even if we have to ride circles in our living rooms in the buff, we
will ride on.”

The event last year saw 10,000 participants in varying degrees of
undress. The event is meant to protest against society’s dependency on
oil as well as promote cyclist safety and body positivity.

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