World Naked Bike Ride - Part 91

Brussels 2015

Jerome Jolibois, at right, has been organizing the World Naked Bike Ride in Brussels, Belgium since 2005.  Above, he is attending a party on March 21, 2015, months before the ride, to promote the WNBR.

For the ride itself on June 20, Jerome dyed his mustache green.  I don't know if it was to make him more recognizable to the other riders that he was organizing, or it was a visual pun about the WNBR being a "green" event, because bicycles don't generate pollution like cars do.

Here we see that he is naked for the ride.  Jerome is a committed nudist.  He has even appeared naked on TV.

Jerome leading the WNBR riders.

In the Grand Place, Brussels.

A rear view of Jerome in the Grand Place.  On his back is written "Ogr. CO2".  I think what looks like "Ogr" was supposed to be "Ogn", an abbreviation for oxygen (oxygène in French), so it's a comment on bike-riding being non-polluting, since bike riders consume oxygen and emit nothing worse than carbon dioxide, unlike cars.  That's one of two major messages of WNBR: riding bikes is less polluting than driving cars.

And here's the other major WNBR message: promoting safety for bike riders by telling drivers to notice bike riders even when they're not naked.

Here we see Jerome sideways.  The writing on the back of the guy at left says "Je prête à rire mais donne à penser", which means "I invite laughter but give food for thought."  Perhaps the nudity of the WNBR riders will invite some people to think about the WNBR messages.

Jerome and other riders at the Place Raymond Blyckaerts.

The riders in downtown Brussels.  Jerome is at left.

The end of the ride at Square Frère-Orban, with Jerome again at the left.