The World’s Naked Bike Ride movement is an annual clothing optional protest ride in support of nature, the environment, peace and the right of cyclists to use the road safely. Inevtiable laid-back Byron has embraced the event. The ride began in Spain in 2001, and has now spread to over 50 cities in about 20 countries, and is conducted in two legs. The Southern hemisphere WNBR takes place in March, and includes Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil, Colombia and Peru where the weather is not too cold or hot at that time of year, and the Northern hemisphere events take place in June. Although some foolhardy UK and US fans support the down-under events as well. Which doesn’t really ‘bare’ thinking about. David Young photographed this year’s Byron Bay event. “It’s a photographer dream,” he says. “I love it. It could have been made for Byron. It’s such fun and a little – well – whacky.”
Young shot the event on a Nikon D800 with 200mm len at f5.6 at 1/1500.
