There are many messages delivered with the World Naked Bike Ride with everything from encouraging drivers to take notice of cyclists and promoting cycling safety to saving the planet by not driving and burning fossil fuels, to promoting body awareness and positive self-image.

Since 2003 people have been riding their bikes in the nude to make a statement – at first for peace, then for the planet but these days it's more about cycling with a shift towards simplifying the message and focusing on cycling advocacy.

As the flood crisis continues to impact the region, the organisers of the World Naked Bike Ride have decided to postpone the local events planned for 13 March at Byron Bay and Nimbin.

Fine weather on Sunday saw 180 odd people don their Birthday Suits for a spin around Byron on Sunday.

The world naked bike ride has come around again and will be taking off from locations in Nimbin and Byron Bay this weekend.

Just hours after a Lismore police officer put a halt to that town's World Naked Bike ride on Sunday, two Byron Bay coppers stopped traffic to allow 200-odd riders onto the road. PHOTOS

Whether you are clad or not, cycling among cars, buses and trucks can be a brutal business – and WNBR is partly there to remind people to keep an eye out for the poor cyclist. Of course, when they’re naked you’re more likely to see them!

Despite the wet weather, three World Naked Bike rides took off around the Northern Rivers over the weekend without a hitch and without a stitch – albeit with somewhat fewer participants than in more clement years.

Byron Bay’s 10th annual World Naked Bike Rid this coming Sunday, March 11, will be the biggest event of its kind in Australia if it exceeds the 270 participants who rode in the event last year.

World Naked Bike Ride season is back again - with rides taking place at Nimbin, Lismore and Byron next month. And the Nimbin event is celebrating its tenth successful nude year.