Shown the error of my ways.
- Thread starter Gromit
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hackbike 666
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<ducks for cover>
BentMikey
Rider of Seolferwulf
- Location
- South London
What's better about the new route?
hackbike 666
Guest
What exactly is bike pete?
Found a few references but im still unclear.
Found a few references but im still unclear.
Origamist
Legendary Member
I was cycling in York on Saturday (Dringhouses to Selby) and came across odd spheres planted in the ground along the route of a cycle path - my friend explained it was part of York's solar system model:
http://www.solar.york.ac.uk/
I thought it was pretty impressive.
http://www.solar.york.ac.uk/
I thought it was pretty impressive.
Origamist said:
It's nice route apart from 1.99 miles of lower quality stuff just before joining selby. Have they re-opened the bit by the river between barlby and selby? Unfortunately this was closed for a long time and they had a fatality along the diverted section.
I used to use the A64 cycle path a fair bit. It managed to get my drunken american friend back from tadcaster in one piece thank god so it can't be that bad.
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
Origamist said:
If you cycle at an average sort of speed, anything more than 10mph, you travel at a scale speed faster than the speed of light, so you end up younger than you started....
The sun is apparently an old septic tank, and there's a hugely out of scale Cassini probe model by Saturn at Naburn.Gromit, which cyclepath way? I found myself at the back of the college on one of my jaunts last summer and went down the road by the side of Tesco (off that roundabout), and then the back roads, and it was ok - maybe not at rush hour though... And I wouldn't know how to get to any actual entrance...
Hilldodger
Guru
- Location
- sunny Leicester
hackbike 666 said:
I'm still waiting for someone to answer this
hackbike 666
Guest
bikepete said:
Hi BP nice of you to drop in.
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
Hilldodger said:I'm still waiting for someone to answer this
Easy. He's my boss!
Arch, that way is the route Gromit used to go. I showed her the way which is going out from the college/Tesco past the cemetry (on Tesco side) and then on the cycle path over the railway bridge and then alongside the A64 past Copmanthorpe. Takes you up the sliproad to the roundabout just past Copmanthorpe - from there it's just a few hundred yards to the college entrance.
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
bikepete said:
Ah, right, cheers. I've come back into York on the path on the other side, that comes under the A64 - in fact I was with you, and fell off that TW bent, when I unaccountably steered into the fence on the bridge over the railway...
Not that it might be that much interest to people but since the google streetview update you can see a lot of the A64 cycle path (on one side) on google streetview. The routes are also on opencyclemap but not sustrans for political reasons.
Origamist
Legendary Member
marinyork said:
We never got as far as Selby (not even close) as we were cycling with a 4 and 7 year old (I'm not even sure if we made it to Jupiter). The former had fantastic balance, but would only brake using his feet, and the 7 year old was scared of dogs and would scream and crash into the verge when he saw one!
I did find a nice pub in the cente that sold a lot of continental beers - I think it was called Pivo, but I was in there for 5 hours so my memory isn't too great.
