Sydney Body Art Ride
Australian
version of the World Naked Bike Ride
News
2007
The
Annual Sydney Body Art Bike was held on the 11th February
2007
Shopping
malls collapsed, roads flooded but the Sydney Body
Art Ride went through.
Congratulations
to all the wonderful people who showed up for yesterdays
third annual Sydney Body Art Ride. Despite the gloomy
weather reports and a number of conflicting events
we managed to muster 200 riders and the sun shone
down on us all day. In fact the perfect weather lasted
until we had finished packing the last few things
back at UNSW. Then the rain came down and conveniently
rinsed the left over paint off the lawn. (The Purple
riders had left the biggest paint puddle)
This
year we had a coffee van, a veg/non veg BBQ and music.
With the numbers down a bit our paint team was able
to put in extra effort on giving people more elaborate
designs and in the first few photos Ive seen
there is some great artwork. In fact the whole event
was a bit more relaxed and easy to manage. This year
was the first time weve had a Sad Wagon
to pick up riders whose bikes break down and for the
first time we needed one. One of the Red Team was
collected and transported to the Beach. Seems like
the Gods love SBAR.
As
organisers we were very proud of how well behaved
everyone was down on the Beach. Conditions were pretty
rough so everyone stayed inside the flags and didnt
go in too far. Three riders were stung by blue bottles
and unfortunately two of them were younger riders,
all three have fully recovered and I guess we were
lucky that out of 200 people only three got stung.
Our
youngest rider this year was seven years old (apart
from the pregnant women of course) and the oldest
was 60. We had the highest number of Piercings ever
recorded with a rider displaying nine of them to take
out the prize. We also had a new colour in our Rainbow,
a group of people brought along their own white paint
and added floral designs which looked fabulous. Two
of the Whites took out the Best Decorated Bike
prize with their extremely floral tandem.
If
you have photos please send us a disc for our exhibition
and website.
There
are some excellent shots to look at on Jasons
website at: http://users.on.net/~alexanderino/tmp/sbar
We
will add more to our usual fotopage as they come in.
http://sbarhq.fotopages.com
Thankyou
to everyone who came along and especially to all of
our volunteers who work so hard every year to make
sure we all have a great day. (Credit: Jake Lloyd
Jones).
Grease
those Bike Chains!
Grease
those Bike chains, adjust the saddle and pump up the
tyres. The Sydney Body Art Ride, in it's third year,
is on again! Plans are well underway to make the 2007
Ride bigger and better than ever!
When:
Sunday the 11th of February 2007.
Where:
Physics Lawn, University of New South Wales
Check
out the On
The Day page for meeting times and places.
Tell
your friends and bring the whole family. The route
suits all levels of riding experience and you'll be
supporting a great cause. Fun, fitness, colour and
charity.
We'll
be keeping you up to date so come back and visit again.
2006
Art
Expo
6.00pm
to 9.00pm Wednesday 13th of September
Pine
St Creative Arts Centre, 64 Pine St Chippendale
-
Set up
- Publicity
- Waiters
- Catering
Best
regards
Jake
Interview
Jake
Lloyd Jones
Articles
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rainbow' to brighten cancer fundraiser
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there
Websites
The
Sydney Body Art Ride
World
Naked Bike Ride
Sydney
Body Art Bike Ride Flickr website
Sydney
Body Art Bike Ride blogger
Profiles
Jake
Lloyd-Jones
Eva
Rinaldi
Body
Painting
Cleopatra
Productions
Children's
Cancer Institute of Australia
Maroubra
Sydney
Media
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Bike Ride in a media, new media and publicity capacity
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