Cape Town's World Naked Bike Ride: Why was it cancelled?

Event organisers were forced to turn the other cheek by cancelling the annual World Naked Bike Ride in Cape Town. Here's why...

The South African

Pedalada Pelada 2026
WNBR-SP
14/03 HOJE
Concentração: Praça Marechal Cordeiro de Farias (Praça dos Arcos) Higienópolis
20h

A World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR), também conhecida em português por Pedalada Pelada, é uma campanha global em que os participantes planejam, se encontram e pedalam juntos sem a obrigação de usar roupas utilizando veículos não motorizados como bicicletas, skates e patins

Os corpos nus da campanha chamam a atenção dos motoristas e da sociedade para a fragilidade dos ciclistas e pedestres no dia a dia do trânsito.
O objetivo é promover uma visão de segurança no trânsito, de não poluição e de positividade em relação aos corpos das pessoas. É, ao mesmo tempo, um protesto contra os efeitos negativos de petróleo, automóveis e energias não-renováveis.

O código de vestir-se é o quão pelado você ousar, do inglês bare as you dare. A nudez total ou parcial é encorajada, porém, não é obrigatória em todas as pedaladas ao redor do mundo.
#wnbr #pedaladapelada

Between June and August, national park officials from across the country flagged signs, brochures, exhibits and more for review by the Trump administration as it seeks to edit the history of America’s public lands...

https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/absurd-signs-national-parks-22024223.php

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Some interesting thoughts and a good read I found on the net:

**List of national park signs under federal review moves into the absurd**
By Kylie Mohr, March 10, 2026
Between June and August, national park officials from across the country flagged signs, brochures, exhibits and more for review by the Trump administration as it seeks to edit the history of America’s public lands. Materials on the chopping block include those that display “improper partisan ideology,” “a false reconstruction of American history,” or anything that “inappropriately disparages Americans” or “emphasizes matters unrelated to the beauty, abundance, or grandeur” of parks’ natural features.
Though information about the Civil War, Black and Indigenous history and climate change were targeted extensively, those weren’t the only topics called into question.
SFGATE reviewed a database with hundreds of materials that employees sent to National Park Service leadership over the summer. An anonymous group that described themselves as “civil servants on the front lines” leaked the material, along with detailed information on how the review process is being carried out internally.
“This data belongs to the American people, who need to know what is being done in their name,” reads a website created by the group. The Washington Post first reviewed and confirmed the authenticity of the internal government database.
Among the most unusual of the flagged documents: photos of signs about nude sunbathing in Florida...

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https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/absurd-signs-national-parks-22024223.php

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Cape Town cancels World Naked Bike Ride following backlash

The 2026 World Naked Bike Race in Cape Town, traditionally held the day before the Cape Town Cycle Tour, was cancelled amid growing pressure from local authorities, reports Cape {town} Etc. The event, held annually for the past 18 years, was reportedly cancelled after the City of Cape Town imposed new conditions requiring participants to be fully clothed. Event coordinator... Read more →

Cape Town ETC
Some interesting thoughts and a good read I found on the net:

**Cape Town cancels World Naked Bike Ride following backlash**
by Cameron Kelly on March 10, 2026
The 2026 World Naked Bike Race in Cape Town, traditionally held the day before the Cape Town Cycle Tour, was cancelled amid growing pressure from local authorities, reports Cape {town} Etc.
The event, held annually for the past 18 years, was reportedly cancelled after the City of Cape Town imposed new conditions requiring participants to be fully clothed.
Event coordinator and representative Marthinus Pretorius said this year’s event faced growing pressure, uncertainty, and even hostility toward the naturist community in Cape Town. The problems reportedly began with last year’s Naked Bike Ride, with the City citing sections 9 and 22 of the Sexual Offences Act of 2007. Although the 2025 event proceeded, this year’s was cancelled.
The event is usually held in coordination with the City of Cape Town’s guidelines, with Pretorius stating in an interview with CapeTalk, ‘we [usually] just give notice to the City that we are going to do a protest, and then there is a meeting in line with the Public Gatherings Act. In that meeting, they give us the go-ahead.’
The growing tension led to unresolved questions, making it difficult to proceed with the event: ‘We have been struggling to get answers out of the City of Cape Town…they try to avoid answering me or speaking to us.’
Pretorius went on to emphasise the importance of highlighting the issues faced by the naturist community and promoting body positivity, claiming that police have recently begun telling people to cover up at Sandy Bay, which was declared an unofficial secluded nudist beach in 1996.
The event coordinators have reported the issues and filed a complaint with the Commission for Language, Religious and Cultural Rights...

Continue to the source:
https://www.capetownetc.com/news/cape-town-cancels-world-naked-bike-ride-following-backlash

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WORLD NAKED BIKE RIDE - BERLIN 2026
https://www.wnbr-berlin.de/

Auch dieses Jahr und auch in #Berlin wird wieder der #worldnakedbikeride -Tag #wnbr begangen

The naked and the Dead: Nudist arrested at Bob Weir memorial, cops claim he spat at them

A witness says nobody in the tie-dyed crowd batted an eye at the nudity — except the guys in blue.

The San Francisco Standard