York

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This page has basic information. For full details, visit WNBR York (official site).

Next ride

Date: Friday 9 June 2006 (NB: not Saturday 10 June, when most other northern hemisphere rides are taking place)
Time: Meet 6pm, ride 6.30pm
Location: Assemble in Memorial Gardens (off Leeman Road, nearby the Railway Station), York, YO26 4ZZ

As always, everyone is encouraged to go "as bare as they dare" and please affix/paint signs on your bike and/or body to indicate the reason why you are riding.

Details of the ride are at the WNBR York web pages.

Route

The ride will start at War Memorial Gardens and end on the opposite bank of the Ouse at the Museum Gardens (which requires a short period of travelling by foot, pushing the bike).

Advantages of the route: The proposed York ride is mostly straightforward with minimal car traffic. It starts close to the rail and bus stations, and there is Park & Ride parking a short cycle distance from the start of the route. The route passes various distinct features of York, including Bootham Bar, the York Cathedral, historic bridges, pedestrianised medieval streets, the Ouse River bankside, Cliffords Tower, the Millennium cycle bridge, National Cycle route 65 and the beautiful riverside Museum Gardens.

Planning meetings

If you would like to help co-ordinate the York WNBR, please contact Jesse (UK rides coordinator) on 07814 587361. We are considering holding a planning meeting in York on a weekday soon (possibly on Friday 26 May). We plan to meet at 6pm in the evening (meet up at Memorial Gardens). If the weather is good, we can meet outside, otherwise we'll have to repair to a dry/warm location that is hopefully quiet (any suggestions?). The ride planning will take place on the WNBR UK Yahoo! group.

Publicity

We have established a route and we have a leaflet to be printed up and distributed. There isn't much planning needed except how to get these leaflets distributed. If anyone knows of somewhere that would photocopy or print the leaflets for free, that would be great – they print well in black and white. Another thing we are looking for is a place that we could leave the leaflets for people to collect them (with a person or business in York). Preferably the leaflets could be collected in the evening between 4-8pm. Any volunteers? If you know of a business that might spring for this, please ask them and then get in touch with Jesse at 07814 587361.

Volunteer needed: Ride Coordinator

We need someone who can act as the main ride coordinator. At the moment it is being provisionally coordinated by someone who lives outside York, and we could do with someone who is a local cyclist. Ideally we'd have two people collaborating as coordinators – one person serving as a backup in case the main person in the role falls ill.

Here's what the coordinator would do:

• answer people's questions with care and consideration
• keep track of who is doing what, and how far through things people are
• deal with problems and follow the discussions at the national level
• provide email updates to let people know what's going on
• point out where and when help is needed
• act as a contact point for general enquiries (email and mobile phone)
• maintain contact information (and keep it secure)

Additional responsibilities that the coordinator could have if they wanted:

• arrange meetings, compile agendas, provide minutes
• ensure that the collective remains non-hierarchical but organised
• moderate an email list for York ride planning (NB: this is not yet available)

Media coverage

• The Press (Yorkshire), 29 May 2006: "On Yer Bike...and get your kit off!"

Photos

• Flickr photos by Nic Thornhill

Links

Websites

• WNBR UK – official site for UK rides
• WNBR York wiki – official wiki page for the York ride (this page!)

Discussion group/s

Join the WNBR UK list if you plan to ride and want to receive important updates or share in general UK ride planning.

• WNBR UK – Yahoo! discussion group for all UK rides

Related links

• Bike Week - The York ride is a registered ride in the UK's annual 'celebration of cycling'!

Location information

• ViaMichelin map of York
• Wikipedia: York
• Wikipedia: Yorkshire