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A PARADE of topless, motorcycle-riding strippers scheduled to take place in Auckland this month has been cancelled to preserve the Rugby World Cup’s family atmosphere. And another big World Cup event, the Pamplona-style “running of the sheep,” has also been dropped.

Sex industry entrepreneur Steve Crow has organised “Boobs on Bikes” parades, featuring topless strippers riding pillion on motorcycles, in cities across New Zealand for the past eight years. The next event was scheduled for Auckland on 24 September, coinciding with a crunch pool match pitting the All Blacks against France at the Eden Park stadium in New Zealand’s largest city.

Crow planned to have 20 topless women, each featuring bodypaint in the colours of a World Cup team, ride through the city centre ahead of the match. “For the first time in the history of boobs on bikes, the tide of public opinion is most definitely against us holding this event at the date and time proposed due to the ‘family nature’ of the big rugby thingy that is happening all over NZ at this time,” he said.