York is one of England's most popular cycling cities, perhaps because it has almost no hills though during the day city-centre footstreets are not accessible by bike.

It also has a number of interesting areas in the countryside around with quiet roads or cycle paths (including Sustrans routes) which make for enjoyable cycling experiences. Routes along the river will take you out of town away from the traffic.

Good, flat and largely traffic-free rides run along riverside cycle paths, crossing the River Ouse by the Millenium Bridge cycle route. Sustrans long distance routes lead on further afield. (Try the route across the racecourse in the direction of Selby, with its 6-mile scaled-down representation of the solar system and planet models along its length.)

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