{"id":769,"date":"2011-11-27T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/?p=769"},"modified":"2011-11-27T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T21:10:07","slug":"ride-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/27\/ride-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Winter River by Big Dadoo, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/big_dadoo\/6413757097\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 5px solid white; float: left; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7022\/6413757097_a44a129807.jpg\" alt=\"Winter River\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>After the FOG Annual General Meeting this morning and talking with some of the guys about winter riding and how several guys cycle commute all year round, I was inspired to get back on the bike for a spin this after noon. I tried to get a riding buddy, but something about &#8220;it&#8217;s too cold&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;ve got some stuff to do&#8221;, left me riding solo.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The hard pack snow and ice on some of the road sections were a little tricky, but the trails on the river banks were good for riding with packed and semi-packed snow covered trails. The section through Whittier Park was just as much fun as it is in the summer, but I did slow down quite a bit for some of the tighter corners. I didn&#8217;t go down, but the bike did on an icy section in The Forks. As I felt the bike start to go, instincts took over and I clipped out and stepped off the bike landing on my feet. Not bad reaction time for a first ride on ice.<\/p>\n<p>The sun came out for a while and it was quite warm even for -5&deg;C. From The Forks it was down Lyndale Drive and Des Meurons to the bike path that parallels Fermor and back to the house for a 24km, 1:17 ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the FOG Annual General Meeting this morning and talking with some of the guys about winter riding and how several guys cycle commute all year round, I was inspired to get back on the bike for a spin this after noon. I tried to get a riding buddy, but something about &#8220;it&#8217;s too cold&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-cycling","category-fog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}