FNRttC Friday Night Ride to the Coast York to Cleethorpes 18th June 2010

[theclaud]

we're going airborne.......

He's repeating himself. It's an age thing - don't let on that we've noticed...

 

[dellzeqq]

I'm repeating myself to assure those who are exercised by the question that there is a plan........which is basically this. I stand in the middle of the junction and hold up the traffic. Where's Daniel P when you need him?

 

[marinyork]

Well second choice to going airborne, even if I'm totally wrong, I still reckon Fishergate bar + various routes is more scenic than Morrisons Car park and the bodged job they've done of James St since they rebuilt it. One can even extend it slightly and get view of two bars rather than one.

 

[marinyork]

I'm repeating myself to assure those who are exercised by the question that there is a plan........which is basically this. I stand in the middle of the junction and hold up the traffic. Where's Daniel P when you need him?

Actually it's not a million miles from the earlier plan I had .

 

[theclaud]

I'm repeating myself to assure those who are exercised by the question that there is a plan........which is basically this. I stand in the middle of the junction and hold up the traffic. Where's Daniel P when you need him?

If I were any more relaxed about the question I'd barely have the energy to type this. I enjoy the abdication of responsibility. Just let me know where to stand and point...

 

[dellzeqq]

Actually it's not a million miles from the earlier plan I had .

unfortunately someone grassed you up on your other plan which would have had us going down a towpath to Selby or somewhere near, and then traversing several miles of ploughed fields.

Now, if you'd like to turn your attention to the design of a Bailey Bridge manufactured entirely from tandems, to be constructed on the night, granting us a crossing over the River Derwent at Elvington, I'm all ears...

 

[Aperitif]

unfortunately someone grassed you up on your other plan which would have had us going down a towpath to Selby or somewhere near, and then traversing several miles of ploughed fields.

Now, if you'd like to turn your attention to the design of a Bailey Bridge manufactured entirely from tandems, to be constructed on the night, granting us a crossing over the River Derwent at Elvington, I'm all ears...

"Marin Aid" - 'Tender is the Night Ride'

 

[Arch]

Quite possibly not actually if you'd listened to my post. Easiest detour is what I was hinting at, which one can apparently do. There really, really was a reason why I wrote what I did, having lived on that junction...

If one could get more information about the south side of what the junction actually looks like as opposed to the restrictions, you are closer to me at the moment that would be very useful.

Listen carefully. The. End. Of. Lawrence. Street. Is. Closed. With. A. Metal. Fence. You cannot, currently, cycle across from Walmgate Bar, without going onto the pedestrian crossing and then pavement. It's possible this will have changed by the night of the ride, of course, as the closure seems to be happening in phases.

A right turn might be possible, although not strictly legally I think since the whole straight on/right lane is also barred, so you'd have to turn right from the left turn lane (which physically branches to the left, not just marked with an arrow), or go through the cycle only lane under the Bar, which I think might be one way the other way. You can't get onto Barbican Road, you'd have to go round the Barbican one way bit (again assuming no illegal pavement cycling).

I'm maybe being thick, but I don't get what you mean by 'ASL anyway...'

Obviously at midnight this is all fairly quiet and one might 'get away' with stuff, but I don't know how keen the whole FNR ethos is on illegal manoeuvres...

 

[dellzeqq]

we're gonna take that sucker at high speed, with flashing lights and sirens. Fences schmences - this is going to be Apocalypse Now, but with bikes. There will be tears, but there will be laughter, and, twenty years from now, children will ask YOU where you were when the FNRttC took Walmgate Bar. Timothy Leary will rise from the grave and call out all our names, inducting us in to the Psychochaotic Cosmodemonic Hall of Fame. Each of us will have our own stories to tell, but each of us will bless the night that Walmgate Bar was lit up, not by sodium, but by the brilliance, the genius, the sensual derangement that is the Night Ride to end all Night Rides.

Fear has no place in our hearts!

 

[User10119]

Well, that'll entertain the punters in Jenny's chippy and the kebab shop, not to mention the smokers outside the Rook and Gaskill and the Waggon and Horses!

 

[Aperitif]

we're gonna take that sucker at high speed, with flashing lights and sirens. Fences schmences - this is going to be Apocalypse Now, but with bikes. There will be tears, but there will be laughter, and, twenty years from now, children will ask YOU where you were when the FNRttC took Walmgate Bar. Timothy Leary will rise from the grave and call out all our names, inducting us in to the Psychochaotic Cosmodemonic Hall of Fame. Each of us will have our own stories to tell, but each of us will bless the night that Walmgate Bar was lit up, not by sodium, but by the brilliance, the genius, the sensual derangement that is the Night Ride to end all Night Rides.

Fear has no place in our hearts!

Brilliant!

 

[George Whitebread]

we're gonna take that sucker at high speed, with flashing lights and sirens. Fences schmences - this is going to be Apocalypse Now, but with bikes. There will be tears, but there will be laughter, and, twenty years from now, children will ask YOU where you were when the FNRttC took Walmgate Bar. Timothy Leary will rise from the grave and call out all our names, inducting us in to the Psychochaotic Cosmodemonic Hall of Fame. Each of us will have our own stories to tell, but each of us will bless the night that Walmgate Bar was lit up, not by sodium, but by the brilliance, the genius, the sensual derangement that is the Night Ride to end all Night Rides.

Fear has no place in our hearts!

What the bloody hell are you on about?

 

[Aperitif]

What the bloody hell are you on about?

Dellzeqq could be tempted just to launch Big Steev at the barrier...at maximum revs. B)

 

[threebikesmcginty]

we're gonna take that sucker at high speed, with flashing lights and sirens. Fences schmences - this is going to be Apocalypse Now, but with bikes. There will be tears, but there will be laughter, and, twenty years from now, children will ask YOU where you were when the FNRttC took Walmgate Bar. Timothy Leary will rise from the grave and call out all our names, inducting us in to the Psychochaotic Cosmodemonic Hall of Fame. Each of us will have our own stories to tell, but each of us will bless the night that Walmgate Bar was lit up, not by sodium, but by the brilliance, the genius, the sensual derangement that is the Night Ride to end all Night Rides.

Fear has no place in our hearts!

 

[marinyork]

Listen carefully. The. End. Of. Lawrence. Street. Is. Closed. With. A. Metal. Fence. You cannot, currently, cycle across from Walmgate Bar, without going onto the pedestrian crossing and then pavement. It's possible this will have changed by the night of the ride, of course, as the closure seems to be happening in phases.

Trivially. I don't know why you can't be helpful rather than telling me things I already know from the descriptions, chuffing heck I thought you were supposed to have lived in the place for ten years.

What is needed is not Lawrence St but what's going on further south and north. Is there a barrier physically stopping people taking the natural route to the left of the bar (I know the straight on lane is closed) and packing into the ASL on foss islands road? (note natural road markings, that may have changed). If the lights have got moved back you can still more or less do that same thing at midnight. Besides I think it'd be hilarious having cars at the front of the queue surrounded by 50 cyclists.

As for south I gather from the descriptions that once you are on Foss Islands Road you can go along Barbican Road till Paragon St unhindered so my thoughts are to jump on the cycle path of which there is a dropped kerb and you're legally allowed to do. Then take a left turn on the cycle path and depending on which side the barriers closures/are either go down Barbican Mews or do 50ft of illegal cycling and hop onto Wellington St, regent St etc. If you follow what I mean it really depends what it means by 'between Paragon St and Wellington St' as there are a few houses with cars on the stub of Wellington St it's not clear which side of the road junction the blocks will be/access and so on (happened in the past when the road was closed). I can't see any of that, perhaps you could head further south and help out on that one . I don't think going around the Barbican on the cycle path is unpleasant even if Barbican Mews cycle crossing is closed, I'm just not a fan of James St since they ruined it, I don't mind the inner ring road though.

Anyway that diversion is 1/2 a mile, one could also go up Hope St through Fishergate bar and/or along cycle path other bits and combine and I also have a cheekier shortcut that is substantially shorter that you may still be able to do.