I didn't think much of the cycle parking facilities at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park

[vernon]

The bike park there is not all it's cracked up to be.

Keep up at the back.

One TMN to @perplexed

The park I love, but the cycle facilities are not all they're cracked up to be...

 

[pawl]

They can't be expecting too many people arriving by bicycle.

23mm tyres only.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Brill @vernon, in all the times I've been, that rabbits bum has never said bike stand to me. I admire your vision.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

So @vernon , tell us, were you only there for the craic?

 

[TVC]

That's an important ass...

It's been... 'Ring' fenced.


I'll get mi goat.

What are you doing with a goat?

 

[Piemaster]

A place I really have to go back and revisit. My desktop wallpaper is a photo from last year

 

[perplexed]

If one can't lock one's bike on land at YSP, I suppose one could always Moore it at the lakeside...

 

[ColinJ]

If one can't lock one's bike on land at YSP, I suppose one could always Moore it at the lakeside...

Don't worry ... considering the price I paid for a sandwich, coffee and cake there on a forum ride 5 years ago, your lunch is more likely to be stolen than your bike!

We wandered about trying to find the restaurant/cafe. There were signs for 'The Underground Gallery' and that kind of thing but we didn't see a single one for the cafe!

By trial and error we finally located the cafe. We got quite a few strange looks from the massed crowds of art lovers. Who are these sweaty men in lycra?

My sandwich was very nice but £4.50 was a steep price to pay. My sandwich, cake and coffee came to £9.05 which is more than I could really afford. In fact, I had to dig right down into my small change and only just had enough to pay my bill! (5p to spare)

We saw a tripod next to a large black circle in the grass. We couldn't work out whether a surveyor had just stopped for a break or whether it was in fact a work of art, but there you go.

A big red metal cone with another big piece of red metal next to it was clearly 'art', where art is defined as 'It doesn't have a purpose, isn't natural and didn't get there by accident'!

Eventually we were ensconced in the cafe next to a wall displaying photographs of some of the 'works'. Deeply moving works such as a sign bearing the stimulating thoughts "We see through our eyes. We hear through our ears." Wow - I was so intrigued, I almost forgot to eat my sandwich! (Did I tell you that it cost £4.50?). In a flash of artistic brilliance, aJ came up with the concept of a sister work - a sheet of A3 paper on which he would write "We smell through our noses. We ride on our bikes." He has a bright future in The Art World!

Person 1: "Is that pile of bricks a work of art?"

Person 2: "How can we tell just by looking at the bricks?"

Person 1: "Well it's either art or it isn't!"

Person 2: "No, no, no! If an artist bought the bricks from a builders yard and installed them in the gallery - that is art. If delivery men merely dumped them there for builders to use in the new gallery extension, then they remain nothing more than a pile of bricks!"

Person 1: "Oh, I understand now - thank you - my life is enriched beyond measure!"

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

They can't be expecting too many people arriving by bicycle.

Is that the weird anthromorphosised Rabbit??

 

[vernon]

Is that the weird anthromorphosised Rabbit??

Opinions are split on that matter.