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

Next ride

Date: Friday 8 June 2007 (NB: not Saturday 9 June, when most other northern hemisphere rides are taking place)
Time: Meet 5:30pm, ride 6.00pm.
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 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

The ride planning will take place on the WNBR UK Yahoo! group and at WNBR Collective meetings in York.

WEDNESDAY 16 MAY 2007, 7 pm approx. We will be having a showing of the Johnny Zapatos film THE WORLD NAKED BIKE RIDE, followed by discussion, questions & answers, exchange of ideas. Venue to be confirmed.

Publicity

We are establishing a slightly altered route from last year and preparing a new 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.

The York WNBR Planning Collective

The York Planning Collective was relaunched in April 2007. We are a group of cyclists working together in a co-operative way to a single end. Some of us are based in York itself, some live in the surrounding towns and villages.

This year the Ride is being coordinated by someone who lives outside York, but in the future it would be useful to have someone local acting as the main ride coordinator. 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

Media coverage

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

Photos

• Flickr photos by Nic Thornhill
• Flickr photos by 'toniminou'

Links

Websites

• WNBR UK – official site for UK rides (NB the York pages of this website have not yet been updated)
• 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