World Naked Bike Ride: Cambridge, UK Update

Having drawn everyone's attention to the Naked Bike Ride in Cambridge England, I feel it is my duty to report back. Unfortunatley, I was unable to make the transatlantic trip and spent the day in sunny Florida. Which was clearly a stark contrast to the English rain of Cambridge. However, the internet has been a helpful aid in my search for the delinquent and the naked.

It was a rainy day for the collected naked bike riders of Cambridge.  A collection that looked more old professor than 20 something undergraduate, a fact that surprised me. Where are all the adventurous twenty-somethings looking for risky escapades or recognition of environmental issues. Because isn't that the real reason people are getting naked? No really, I'm asking. I was drawn in at naked.


The rather waterlogged, generally middle aged bike riders looked a little forlorn. As for the collected crowds. Well, once it started raining everyone but the hardy bike riders disappeared. Before it started raining there was a Mardi Gras feeling without the excitements, just the dubious looking men with cameras taking pictures of old men without clothes on.

So in the spirit of what we might have expected, here are naked people with bikes that did not turn up to Cambridge.

I love the cheeks on the last guy. Not so much purple briefs to his left.

World Naked Bike Ride: Cambridge, UK

We may have lost our ASU Undie run, but the Brits are going all in (or maybe all out) with naked bike this Saturday. Cambridge, the usually respectable University town in the east, is hosting the Word Naked Bike Ride event. Other cities have also be hosting. On a recent naked bike ride in another part of England, an over-excited man banned from the ride. We should be able to expect more of that.

There is no registration necessary, just get undressed and hit the saddle, although not too hard, you are naked after all. You then follow the seven mile route around the town. Simple.

It is a 'bare as you dare' event. So you don't have to strip down, but if you didn't what would be the point of calling it a naked bike ride?

What about the police you say? Well it is not an offense to out be out naked. It might be considered inappropriate in certain situations but it only against the law if you are looking to intentionally causing distress. Good to know for my next trip to jolly old England.


Youtube doesn't like nudity, but Vimeo is ok with it, so try this for a look at last year's Brighton Naked Bike Ride.

ASU Undie Run No More

It was a sad April this year. So sad that I have only just been able to write about it.

There was no ASU Undie Run. An institution that has been running (pun intended) since the bygone days of 2008 and has risen in numbers to a staggering 20,000 students raising 4 tons of clothing and 1.5 tones of clothes (and the temperature of a few fathers) is gone.

Let us respect the passing with a moment's silence.

So not writing until May? What was all that about? Well, I guess I was hoping for a last minute reprieve. A  moment of clarity from the student body to either inject some cash to get the runners naked and going. Or even a spontaneous running of underwear clad co-eds through the campus.

Alas there was none. Well, it is ASU, there were naked co-eds running through the campus, but not 20,000 of them raising money for charity. May is fading into June and we shall have to console ourselves with whatever scandal ASU has got lined up for us this summer.

In the meantime some memories:

When it looks like audition day at Legirls I can't imagine why the authorities did not want to support the event. Let's hope some ASU parties got some coverage in the wake of this absence to our internet surfing calender.


Is the picture below from a previous ASU undie run?

Not at all. However, in my defense, they are a group of half naked Australians.Maybe not ASU college kids, but a great looking bunch of half naked men.

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