{"id":90813,"date":"2014-02-20T07:46:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T14:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=90813"},"modified":"2014-02-20T07:46:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T14:46:13","slug":"mt-biking-threading-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=90813","title":{"rendered":"Mt Biking &#8211; THREADING THE LINE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWhen you start the day with your forks dropped and your seatpost raised, you know it\u2019s going to be a long one,\u201d says Holger Meyer, about the thousand-meter climb ahead. We\u2019re smiling, but inside we\u2019re all anxious. What is scaring us most isn\u2019t this climb, nor the two-hour hike-a-bike across a sketchy cliff face to come, or the horseflies waiting in the forest. It\u2019s us not knowing what lies ahead, our ignorance of what we\u2019ve let ourselves in for, and it caught us out on day one, leading us on an eight-hour jeeptrack safari from hell.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We\u2019re not to blame. The 400-Km long Alta Via dei Monti Liguri hiking trail we\u2019re dipping into might be waymarked but it\u2019s unknown among mountain bikers, despite it passing within a tyre\u2019s knob of Finale Ligura\u2019s Enduro World Series race. A basic website is all I have to plan our three-day hut trip\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinkbike.com\/news\/Threading-The-Line-dan-milner-2014.html?trk=rss\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and 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>\u201cWhen you start the day with your forks dropped and your seatpost raised, you know it\u2019s going to be a long one,\u201d says Holger Meyer, about the thousand-meter climb ahead. We\u2019re smiling, but inside we\u2019re all anxious. What is scaring us most isn\u2019t this climb, nor the two-hour hike-a-bike across a sketchy cliff face to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-mt-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90813","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=90813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90814,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90813\/revisions\/90814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}