{"id":23428,"date":"2019-10-27T21:42:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T20:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23428"},"modified":"2019-10-27T21:42:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T20:42:37","slug":"5000-motorcyclists-took-part-in-a-ride-of-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23428","title":{"rendered":"5,000 motorcyclists took part in a &#8220;ride of respect&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19102700.jpg\" alt=\"ride of respect\" \/><br \/>\n5,000 motorcyclists took part in a &#8220;ride of respect&#8221; in honour PC Andrew Harper. His widow led the ride with her brother on PC Harper&#8217;s bike, and can be seen biking over Abingdon Bridge, nearest the camera.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19102711.jpg\" alt=\"ride of respect\" \/><br \/>\nCrowds had gathered on the route through Abingdon from about midday. The first bikes rode through at about 12:30.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19102717.jpg\" alt=\"ride of respect\" \/><br \/>\nMotor Cyclists came from many places. One flew the Flag of Gibraltar.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19102750.jpg\" alt=\"ride of respect\" \/><br \/>\nThere were not just motor cycles. At one place in the convoy there were a variety of three wheeled vehicles including a boat.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19102726.jpg\" alt=\"ride of respect\" \/><br \/>\nThe Mayor of Abingdon was there with his chain and motorcycle gear to applaud the convoy.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19102762.jpg\" alt=\"ride of respect\" \/><br \/>\nPolice Motorcyclists were taking part, helping to marshall the event, and be part of the ride.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19102759.jpg\" alt=\"ride of respect\" \/><br \/>\nPeople applauded the riders who came through in batches of about 500. The last group through were at about 4 pm. It was amazing and my selection of pictures does not do it justice.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"460\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_IAFuTbkbQ4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nHere is a short video showing riders coming through Abingdon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5,000 motorcyclists took part in a &#8220;ride of respect&#8221; in honour PC Andrew Harper. His widow led the ride with her brother on PC Harper&#8217;s bike, and can be seen biking over Abingdon Bridge, nearest the camera. Crowds had gathered on the route through Abingdon from about midday. The first bikes rode through at about [&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-23428","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\/23428","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=23428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}