As a Manc myself, I know that Manchester people are a bit different. Maybe it is something to do with our famous music scene, or the fact our football teams dominate the sport on a domestic level. What is certain is that we march to a slightly different drum beat than the rest of the country.<\/p>\n
However, I didn’t realise how much until I was having a drink in the town centre on Friday and a number of naked cyclists flew past me. <\/p>\n
Yes, this was apparently the World Naked Bike Ride. Male and female cyclists, some with environmental slogans emblazoned across their backs , rode around the city centre, leaving many people in shock, including me!<\/p>\n
Well, after reading up about it, I found that this is a yearly event. And with 200 participants this year, it seems more popular than ever.<\/p>\n
Organiser Sean Fitton was extremely pleased by the looks of it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was amazing,\u201d he told the MEN.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were a lot more people here so it was just huge. Nice weather certainly helped for a start.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn’t do that much promotion so there must have been an awful lot of word of mouth going on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now the first question I had was ‘what the hell are they doing that for’?<\/p>\n