Naked, on a bike and in the rain: a demonstration took to Paulista Avenue in Brazil

With or without a helmet, buttocks in the air or on the saddle of your bike, about thirty cyclists braved the rain on Sunday in São Paulo, Latin America’s largest megalopolis, to educate motorists about their vulnerability to traffic accidents.

At dawn, on Avenida Paulista, the most emblematic artery of the economic capital of Brazil, most are nakedbut some prefer to ride in their underwear.

One of them is depicted naked as a worm, his body entirely stained with green and a chapka on his head.

All responded to the call of pedal nakedthe Brazilian version of the global movement naked bike of the world.

“We are naked on one of the greatest avenues in Latin America, we show that we are vulnerable to the force, to the violence of the cars“, he told the news agency AFP Allis Bezerraa 41-year-old photographer.

“This movement serves to show society how important we are. By using the bicycle as a means of transport, we remove a car that pollutes the environment from urban traffic,” he added.

The artist Andrea Aguida43, painted the message “sustainable pedaling” in the stomach before descending topless on Avenida Paulista.

“Motorists are disrespecting us when they honk at us and seem to be saying, ‘go ahead, or I’ll run you over’“, he denounced.

According to a study by the Brazilian Association of Road Traffic Medicine (Abramet) published last June, in 2011 there were more than 16,000 accidents in Brazil with hospitalization of cyclists in serious condition, an average of 44 per day.

(With information from AFP)

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