Met up with JulieJ yesterday for a ride out to the Seaway's Cafe, Fridaythorpe. We'd arranged the evening before to meet in Wetherby.
Had a slight altercation with a man in a van in Wetherby when he nipped into the parking space I was already paddling back into and when I challenged him about it he threatened to reverse into my bike!
Good ride to Fridaythorpe and a nice cooked breakfast there...then we decided we'd head to Bridlington. We parked up (found the bike parking bay so no fighting with white van man this time) and walked along the sea front. We saw the log flume running and decided it would be a good idea to test out our waterproofs.
The rides were 4 or 5 tokens each so we concluded we needed 26. 50p each or 24 for £10 (4 free). We blagged another 2 free ones from the vendor - result! (or so we thought).
Went on the log flume....not to bad, few droplets caught us but was a good giggle, went to get out but the guy let us go round again - and we got soaked on the 2nd go (well Julie more than me as she was in front).
Got off giggling like a pair of drowned rats and headed for the dodgems. There was only the pair of us on and we both turned into a pair of thugs! I think we did everything you're not supposed to do in these times of health and safety (lots of rear end shunts, t-boning and head on collisions going on - not a lot of dodging!)
The cars died and we both turned to the guy and went....awwwww....so he turned them back on again and off we went again - I've not laughed so much in ages.
Grabbed a quick drink and discovered the last ride we wanted to go on (the twister) was 5 tokens, not 4 so we tried our charms on the guy (they'd been working well so far) but he wasn't having any of it so we voted with our feet and gave our tokens to the nice man at the dodgems. This time we had another 4 cars with us which was just as good fun.
With all that aggression out of our system we could look forward to a lesuirely pootle home. We ended up meeting Geoff in York for dinner and taking a walk round York Minster at night.
Parking in York is fun if you're on a bike. We ended up parking in the cycle parking racks but came back to find a burger van blocking Geoff's and Julie's bikes in. The cycle parking bay was down a dropped kerb so couldn't push them back. The 3 of us managed to push Julie's up, then the burger van owner helped us push Geoff's up (which was on it's mainstand with this van less than a foot in foot - still don't know how he got it off with inches to spare!).
Had a bit of an audience by this time including 2 women who were very interested in our bikes because they watch the MotoGP. Myself and Julie told the more sober one that we were new to it and she should get out there and do it she wants to. Being 52 was no excuse.
Cracking day out - completely unplanned apart from meeting in Wetherby and heading to Seaway's but what fun.
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