World Naked Bike Ride: the environmental protest with a difference

The naked bike riders have two key messages: our car-dependant society
and the lack of safe roads and pathways for cyclists

How a seemingly jovial naked bike ride protest can bring key environmental issues like oil and car dependency to new audiences

(The Ecologist) A group of naked strangers cycling through a city centre is going to turn heads. Every year across the UK World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR), 'the world's biggest naked protest,' is held to try and get people to notice in the name of oil dependency and pollution, car culture and the vulnerability of cyclists.



The two biggest issues for the naked protesters are our continued dependence on oil dependency and the lack of safe roads and pathways for cyclists, helping us to reduce our dependency on oil. The naked part of the protest symbolises the vulnerability of cyclists as road users.

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