Naked Bike Ride (Photo – Gary Stevens).
The annual World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) day is back!
By News Desk
The tentative date set for this year’s ride is June 22. The 2024 ride will be similar to previous years’ first loop ride (see map) put together by organizers in an easy to navigate route with the safety of riders as a primary concern. Previous rides attracted more than 400 riders.
Rules and safety
- You will not need a shirt, pants, a skirt or even underwear, but you will need a mask.
- On the day of the event, riders need to check in at a booth located on the premises in order to receive wristbands. A wristband serves as a participant’s identification so LAPD officers can redirect a lost rider to the group without incidents. They also help organizers identify participants and keep people who aren’t participants at a distance.
- Participants can be on bicycles, skateboards, skates, solar bikes, scooters, or electric assisted bikes.
- If you have an alternative power mode of transportation and want to know if it’s allowable, you can contact the organizers prior to the ride for approval.
- No fossil fuel powered vehicles are allowed except authorized support vehicles used to ensure safety.
Location and RSVP
- This year, they will be staging the ride in a rented portion of LA Parking Lot 7. The entrance is at 140 Judge John Aiso St, Los Angeles, CA 90012.
(Ignore the No Public Parking sign. Pay the attendant $7 per vehicle. Carpooling is encouraged). - Find out location and all updates via the WNBR LA Facebook Page (normally before the ride).
- Anyone can volunteer or sponsor an expense by contacting the organizers at WNBR.LosAngeles@gmail.com.
Always remember
- Nudity is optional: The event is dubbed ‘ride as bare as you dare.’
- Nudity is legal but you need to refer to the organizers’ Body Positivity rules for details.
- Being lewd is illegal and will be reported.
About WNBRLA
World Naked Bike Ride Los Angeles is a community-based non profit organization focused on making Los Angeles safer for bicyclists, promoting a cleaner environment, and educating the public about positive body awareness by legally riding nude.
Video
Here’s a video from the 2015 ride from our Instagram:
Fun fact
In years past, the L.A. Naked Bike Ride used to take place a few days after World Naked Hiking Day, which takes on Summer Solstice (June 20). Also known as “midsummer,” the day has been part of a folkloric tale as a day believed to hold special powers.
What about helmets?
Downside of not wearing, traumatic brain injury. Upside of not wearing, not looking silly.