Getting There
If you're coming from outside Bristol, your options are cycling, coach, train, car, air, sea, possibly horseback.
This year's start and finish is at the ride's traditional spot, the courtyard of the Full Moon and Attic Bar. The venue has a hostel where you can stay over beforehand for the most relaxed arrival on the day, or stay over after the ride and have a relaxed evening, or both! There are plenty of other hostels, hotels, BnBs and AirBnBs nearby, if the Moon is full, so to speak.
By bicycle
Cycle to Bristol. Cycle to the Full Moon and Attic Bar (w3w park.that.fear). Go on the ride. Simple.
By coach
Bristol coach station is extremely close to the Full Moon and Attic Bar, so if you arrive by coach you're basically there. See map.
Bringing a full sized bicycle on the coach is difficult or impossible, but the ride is not taxing, many people take part on folding bikes, which coaches can usually accomodate (in a bag).
By train
Bristol Temple Meads station is an easy cycle away from the Full Moon, or about a 30 minute walk, see map.
Bringing a bicycle on the train can be challenging, as there are often very limited spaces available, however, generally a folding bike in a bag can be accomodated in the carriage luggage space, and the ride is not a taxing one, a folding bike is more than adequate.
By car
Bristol city centre is pretty car-hostile. There's a "clean air zone" of a weird and cunning shape designed to cut off most routes to the South, including the obvious route between the airport and the M5. Parking in or near the city centre is punitively expensive and often short-term. Many of the surrounding areas have resident parking zones.From the South or South West, there's a Park-and-Ride near Ashton Court, but beware the clean air zone extension explicitly designed to catch people out who take the junction signposted for Bristol airport - you want the previous junction, if you're coming from the Exeter end of the M5. If you miss it, and your car is not clean-air-zone compliant, then carry on to the M4 and head East towards London and take the M32 down into Bristol from the North. From the North, Wales or East, join the M4 and go down the M32. If you want to use paid parking very close to city centre, use the Cabot Circus car park, the North entrance of which, in Houlton Street (and only that entrance!) is outside the clean air zone. Remember, if you use that car park and your car is not clear air zone compliant, do not enter or exit by any entrance other than the Houlton Street one!
There's also paid parking on the street further along from Houlton Street, on Little George Street and Eugene Street. (You'll need to search one of the "find parking" websites to book a space, whereas with Cabot you can just rock up and pay on the day.)
For the more adventurous and parsimonious, and especially for people with vans, there's on-street parking free of RPZ restrictions (for now...) around St Werburghs and its environs, off the middle junction (J2) of the M32 (where Ikea is). Unpaid on-street parking around Glenfrome Road, various side roads off James Street, also New Gatton Road (especially suited to vans) and Gatton Road - all are within easy reach of the Full Moon. There may be on-street meter parking along City Road, Wilder Street or the side-roads between, but beware that the clean air zone starts on Cheltenham/Gloucester Road just below where City Road joins it - the escape route is North up Gloucester Road, or back along city road. The end of Wilder Street has a narrow cobbled cycle/walking route (Moon Street) basically directly to the Full Moon, which is just inside the clean air zone.
There's meter and paid parking along and off Jamaica street, the majority of which is (I think!) outside the clean air zone, though emerging at the hospital end onto Marlborough Street, or via a sideroad onto Cheltenham road, would probably be a mistake. That whole street is extremely close to the Full Moon.
By air, sea or horseback
Arriving at Bristol Airport, you will be relentlessly relieved of large amounts of money until you escape, typically by overpriced taxi, overpriced bus, or rental car with an enormous insurance excess. Possibly by bike if you can arrange to collect one at the airport, or pack a folder in your hold luggage. Make your way to the city centre and locate the Full Moon. It's about an hour by bicycle.
Arriving by boat, you'll probably want to moor up in the marina somewhere.
It's possible you might be able to find somewhere, by prior arrangement, to park a horse in one of Bristol's rural suburbs or surrounding villages, e.g. Long Ashton, and get the park and ride. Horse parking in central Bristol is scarce to non-existant.
Bike rental
Various places in Bristol offer rental bikes, but the availability, terms and conditions and prices are ever-shifting. For the moment, search for "bike rental Bristol" on your favourite search engine, and phone to check availability.
Shortly, we'll add recomended rental places, but we haven't yet had time to make enquiries this year; many places that did offer rental bikes have stopped doing so because bikes were coming back too damaged - ALWAYS phone and check!
Here's a preliminary list:
Cycle The City offer Bristol-made hybrid bikes, adventure bikes, kiddie trailers. They also do tours of the city. Website, map.
Bristol Tandem Hire offer Bristol-built tandems for rent - contact and pre-arrangement is essential. Tandems are more costly to rent than solo bikes, but then you only need one per two people... Bristol Tandem Bike Hire also do tours of the city. Website, map.
Bristol Bike Hire operate a kids' bike rental scheme, but also offer adult hybrid town bikes and electric bikes, and longer term rentals.Website, map.
We will approach local cycling schemes and business and add links and maps for folk who offer rental options, or who are prepared to offer them for WNBR riders.
See also Better By Bike.
Accessibility
Warmley Wheelers offer rental of horizontal tandem and wheelchair platform bikes, and are around 25 minutes from the Full Moon, cycling. See map.
Strawberry Line Cycles, in Yatton, offer rental bikes and trikes adapted for people with disabilities. Unfortunately, they don't deliver/collect, and Yatton to Bristol is quite a way to cycle.
We'll try to establish if there are any central Bristol based providers of similar. Watch this space, or search by the usual means.
E-scooter and bike scheme
We do not recommend the current Tier scheme e-bikes or e-scooters for use on WNBR, as they are fairly costly and, more importantly, the maximum duration of a single ride/rental is too short, and they have a nasty tendency to lock solid at inopportune moments because of geolocking. They can be a great way to get around the city if you're staying over (albeit un-necessary if you have your own bike, obviously) but not suited for WNBR use.