{"id":15993,"date":"2016-04-10T22:34:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T21:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15993"},"modified":"2016-04-10T22:34:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T21:34:16","slug":"abingdon-cycle-festival-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15993","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Cycle Festival 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16041018.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Cycle Festival 2016\" \/><br \/>\nAt the Abingdon Cycle Festival, on the 10th April 2016, rides started at 9am from the Market Place.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16041005.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Cycle Festival 2016\" \/><br \/>\nThe rides ranged from the 50 mile quick road ride, averaging 19-22 mph, to 5 mile family rides.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16041007.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Cycle Festival 2016\" \/><br \/>\nThere were 31 rides on the schedule, and it was a case of sign in early to get the ride you wanted.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16041001.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Cycle Festival 2016\" \/><br \/>\nThe day started off sunny with a cool breeze.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16041009.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Cycle Festival 2016\" \/><br \/>\nThere was music to entertain the cyclists, and stalls servings food and refreshments, as well as stalls selling cyclist gear, and a stall with fold-up Brompton bikes.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16041010.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Cycle Festival 2016\" \/><br \/>\nThe oldest bike was a 1891 Rover &#8211; still going strong.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16041015.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Cycle Festival 2016\" \/>><br \/>\nThe Town Crier announced all the rides and helped direct people to their starting point. But this year he had a brand new bike. The green vintage bicycle he rode at previous cycle festivals has not lasted as well as the 1891 Rover.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16041008.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Cycle Festival 2016\" \/>><br \/>\nThe final picture is at 10am and shows a typical scene with cyclists waiting for the off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Abingdon Cycle Festival, on the 10th April 2016, rides started at 9am from the Market Place. The rides ranged from the 50 mile quick road ride, averaging 19-22 mph, to 5 mile family rides. There were 31 rides on the schedule, and it was a case of sign in early to get the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}