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Auckland- from www.stuff.co.nz Several thousand Aucklanders have once again been titillated by the city’s annual Boobs on Bikes parade.

The spectacle, to promote this weekend’s 12th annual Erotica Expo, started from Cross St at 12.30pm before travelling down Queen St.

A convoy of topless women aboard convertibles, motorbikes and jetskis and boats pulled along on trailers were led along the CBD route by accompanying police officers.

For the first time the parade continued along Customs St and Fanshawe St before crossing the Harbour Bridge.

Three of the parade’s participants said before the show that it was their first time baring all in the event.

They were “not nervous just freezing” referring to Auckland’s winter temperatures.

In the lead up to the parade, girls wearing little more than star-spangled briefs, towering platform shoes and frilly garters started attracting an audience on Cross St, playing up to a mostly male crowd armed with cameras and cellphones.

Flamboyant drag queens, leather-clad motorcyclists and even a puppy took part in the event.

The crowd of several hundred swelled to about 5000 as the procession made its way down Queen St.

Miss Erotica 2011 Audrey Tan, along with event organiser Steve Crow, led the convoy of 36 vehicles.

But arguably the big name at the event was Michelle “Bombshell” McGee [pictured], who gained notoriety last year for her affair with Sandra Bullock’s husband Jesse James.

She travelled the parade in a black Porsche alongside international porn star Ron Jeremy.

One man, who did not want to be named, said he had “stumbled across the parade” and was delaying heading back to the office to “enjoy the scenery”.

He said he had seen Boobs on Bikes on television before but today was his first time “seeing it in the flesh”.

The parade has courted controversy in the past with religious groups and women’s rights advocates labelling it degrading.

In 2008 Auckland City Council applied for an injunction to stop the parade but its legal bid was rejected at the last minute and the event went ahead.

Asked what they thought of the parade’s history of causing offense, one participant who wanted to go by her stage name of Alexis, said: “Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion.”

Her colleague Jo Young said “boobs are natural” and said people had been enjoying the human form since Greek and Roman times.

Inspector Derek Davison said police had been helping out with the parade since it began a decade ago.

He said they have never had any problems with the behaviour of those involved in the event.

Tomorrow the parade will pass through several main centres across the Waikato.