{"id":22385,"date":"2019-04-16T23:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T22:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22385"},"modified":"2019-04-16T23:00:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T22:00:27","slug":"abingdon-cycle-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22385","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Cycle Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19041441.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Cycle Festival\" \/><br \/>\nOn Sunday, at the Abingdon Cycle Festival, the Town Crier announced the rides as they set off every quarter of an hour through the morning and early afternoon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19041442.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Cycle Festival\" \/><br \/>\nThe first rides were the fast rides over 40 or 50 miles. Then followed a range of different rides for all abilities.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19041443.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Cycle Festival\" \/><br \/>\nTraffic was diverted down East St the Helen Street and West St Helen Street so the Market Place and High Street were dedicated to stalls which registered cyclists, provided food and refreshment,cycle products and safety, and different bands played.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19041601.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Cycle Festival\" \/><br \/>\nThere was also a challenge of three static bikes trying to do an enormous distance without moving.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19041440.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Cycle Festival\" \/><br \/>\nThe event wants to encourage people to get on their bikes and enjoy the outdoors. During my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdoncaldecott.co.uk\/\">canvassing in Caldecott<\/a> (to try and get on the Town Council as an Independent) I hear the message that more people would use their bikes, and let their children cycle, if the roads and cycle ways were safer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, at the Abingdon Cycle Festival, the Town Crier announced the rides as they set off every quarter of an hour through the morning and early afternoon. The first rides were the fast rides over 40 or 50 miles. Then followed a range of different rides for all abilities. Traffic was diverted down East [&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-22385","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\/22385","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=22385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}