MOTORISTS looked on in amazement as a man cycled naked along a busy road near York.

Police were called to the A64 near the Castle Howard turn-off yesterday afternoon (Tue) after reports that the naked man was riding along the cycle path on a red racing cycle towards Malton.

Tony Lidgate, spokesman for North Yorkshire Police, said that when police arrived, the 38-year-old man leapt off his bicycle and ran off into nearby bushes.

He was eventually arrested under the Mental Health Act.