WHAT a strange world we live in. If I cycle down town in my birthday suit, I will either get arrested for indecent exposure, locked up in a mental institution, or, if I strike lucky, be discovered by a certain newspaper for their Page 3.

This event seems a typical case of “a law for the rich and a law for the poor”. If you feel so vulnerable as cyclists – and I was one for years – you are obviously not fit to ride your bike in the busy traffic of 2013 and should seriously consider other options of transport; use the bus or walk.

Message to all participating cyclists: Please bear in mind when baring all that most people look better when dressed I might come and watch, although it may put me off sausages for life.

Barbara Hudson, Badger Hill, York.

 

• LET’S hope that on the annual York Naked Bike Ride (Letters, June 10) on June 21 our brave pedalling nudists remember to take along their spare safety helmets.

For the prudes among us, one on the head and one used, in cricketing parlance, as a box will suffice.

Here’s hoping for fair weather so that the chaps don’t get chapped.

Geoff Robb, Hunters Close, Dunnington.