Little ride round York

[deadwolf]

Had a day off so decided to ride around York and hit various landmarks. Started off with the National Railway Museum which is, frankly, a pretty amazing place made even better thanks to free entry. The quality of the exhibits is top notch, to say the least.

Park on pavement and avoid £9 parking lot Moar money for donating to the museum

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These are the old gods of speed. Before bikes and cars, trains were punching the ton in the tits and doing it up the gary.

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What a brute! Based off a 'slimmed-down American design'. Those Yankee porkers..

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They had a Mallard simulator. I must have looked dodgy as f**k going on board with two kids as company

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You can watch trains being restored live. Not much action when I got there due to it being late in the day (just one guy crating components).

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After the NRM, ended up at Clifford's Tower after some detours involving ice cream and filtering through large crowds of tourists (overtook a motorised wheelchair and felt really, really guilty for some reason).

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Finally stopped by the river along Skeldergate for a brief chillout before heading home. Took this picture which upon examination led to some pensive moments.

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Two seats. Two different paths. You could choose the bench. A quiet life on the roadside, watching the world pass you by...

Or you could get on the bike and zoom off into the sunset with the wind howling in your ears and a huge shiteating grin plastered across your face.

Decisions, decisions...
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[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

If you fancy meeting up for a ride PM me - i'm outside the city, but not too far. Down the 1079, sort of - out Elvington way actually. I love riding round york.
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[dannymassive]

Nice write up. Looks like you had an interesting day
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[sgtcalle]

i miss my bros
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[Drake]

im down the a59 near the m1 om as per trevor
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[pepperami]

Nice write up , Just love those trains , so want!
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