{"id":2586,"date":"2023-08-12T20:13:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T20:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:21:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T20:21:10","slug":"derby-velodrome-12-aug-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/derby-velodrome-12-aug-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Derby Velodrome – 12 Aug 23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As promised, an overview of our second of the day\u2019s events:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HOW MANY: 12 Trekkers split into 6 pairs sharing 3 tandems, all learning to ride the aptly named \u201cwall of death.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHO: Judith & Richard, Steve & Muz, Charles & Chris D, Sam & Lynda, Mark & Graham, Barney & Tariq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OVERVIEW: Everyone made it round in split shifts, learned to cleat, start and stop and eventually all the way up to riding on to the high boards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THRILLS AND SPILLS: A couple of minor mishaps, but no blood spilt. First of the afternoon was Muz & Steve who managed to mis-time their first ever attempt at a rail grab resulting in a close up visual inspection of the concrete. Not to be outclassed, Judith & Richard then went for an unceremonious, unscheduled, and instantaneous dismount after politely avoiding a crash with a novice solo rider, resulting in an argument with the fairies of the great gravitational force. All an integral part of the adventure and well done everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

APRES VELO: All off to the Harvester for sustenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Judith and Richard ready to roll.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Stephen and Tariq discovering grab rails have their uses.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Charles, Tariq and Chris await a turn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Stephen and Muz in action.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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As promised, an overview of our second of the day\u2019s events: HOW MANY: 12 Trekkers split into 6 pairs sharing 3 tandems, all learning to ride the aptly named \u201cwall of death.\u201d WHO: Judith & Richard, Steve & Muz, Charles & Chris D, Sam & Lynda, Mark & Graham, Barney & Tariq. OVERVIEW: Everyone made … Continue reading “Derby Velodrome – 12 Aug 23”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2586"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2591,"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions\/2591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}