While I was out of the country, London had the temerity to continue as if nothing had happened -- including staging the annual World Naked Bike Ride:

This was despite me notifying the organisers of my absence on that date: why they failed to rearrange it I have no idea.

Though frankly I feel a little insulted, what with me being such a huge supporter and all.

Anyhow, from the photographic evidence it looks like this year offered a bumper crop of modestly-sized (ie, normal) winkies.

I've spotted this chap in a number of photos, so here he gets a pair (as a reward for the cute slogan).

This chap also seems to have been a subject chosen by many photographers.

He gets rewarded for his headgear with another pair of images.

Only found one so far of this chap, whose beard/milky-white skin offers a devastating combo:

Whereas the chap in the middle of this group can be found all over the web (and that flag features elsewhere -- I'll return to that another time):

Here he is again, being cheeky:

And to round off his trio, here's a rather nice portrait of him:

Distinctive headgear is a good way of standing out at the Ride, and this chap has appeared all over the place (in fact, I've probably seen him in more photos than any other individual):

And this is a rather nice one-two photo pair of him, so you get them both:

For some reason this next chap only features in a single photo I can find -- he's a rather fine figure of a man, I think:

By contrast, this man doesn't seem to have grasped one of the fundamental aspects of the World Naked
Bike Ride:

I suspect his long penis is sucking too much blood from his brain.

This next chap doesn't suffer from that problem, his weeny weenie being of a suitably modest size:

His fringe reminded me of Freddy Honeychurch in
A Room With A View, which is a more than sufficient reason to include him.

Into the home stretch now, and here's a foursome of a rather delightful man who also decided a bike was unnecessary:

In fairness to him, he did don roller-blades.

Frankly, as far as I'm concerned he could have attended the event naked. Er...

The point is, he's lovely, he is.

But let me finish with a very fine pair of images of this rather hunky bespectacled man:

Not my normal cup of tea at all, but there's something rather catchy about him, wouldn't you say?

All in all, it looks to have been a particularly fine London World Naked Bike Ride.
Damn them.