{"id":83599,"date":"2013-09-11T11:28:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T18:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=83599"},"modified":"2013-09-11T11:28:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T18:28:16","slug":"the-joy-of-cycling-travel-or-not-as-the-case-may-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=83599","title":{"rendered":"The joy of cycling travel \u2013 or not, as the case may be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Is putting your bike in a box the most stressful thing a cyclist can do?\u00a0Breaking your hard-earned pride and joy into pieces, putting these into a case and handing it over to a baggage handler is the most gut wrenching thing I\u2019ve had to do as a cyclist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I\u2019m heading off to ride the HotChillee 2013 Alpine Challenge, a three day event based out of the French Alpine town of Annecy. Having ridden the HotChillee London to Paris event earlier in the year I know I\u2019m in excellent hands and that all I will need to do in the next few days is relax and ride.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But I\u2019ll confess I\u2019m a bit a worrier and\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.bikeradar.com\/2013\/09\/11\/the-joy-of-cycling-travel-or-not-as-the-case-may-be\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is putting your bike in a box the most stressful thing a cyclist can do?\u00a0Breaking your hard-earned pride and joy into pieces, putting these into a case and handing it over to a baggage handler is the most gut wrenching thing I\u2019ve had to do as a cyclist. I\u2019m heading off to ride the HotChillee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,38,39,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-cyclocross","category-mt-bike","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83600,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83599\/revisions\/83600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}