{"id":3373,"date":"2024-07-13T19:59:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T19:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/?p=3373"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:59:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T05:59:26","slug":"dalby-forest-13-jul-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/dalby-forest-13-jul-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalby Forest – 13 Jul 24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The logistics for today\u2019s trip to Dalby Forest started with \u201cAnd now for something completely different\u2026\u201d And, boy, was it different!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite a misleading postcode for our start point, a temperature of just 12 degrees, constant drizzle, a tandem taking a scenic detour, another tandem suffering a mashed up chain ring and snapped chain, and an end of ride cafe mix up, it\u2019s rather remarkable that the overwhelming consensus of the eight tandems and one solo was it was a brilliant ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, it was a long day, lengthened by the need to wash down nine extremely caked in mud, very mucky bikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the banter on the way back was next time let\u2019s do two circuits of the Adderstone Trail. One simply isn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so \u2026.. till next time\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Getting ready to set off in the rain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Drew and Jules wondering why we can\u2019t simply head for the cafe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Steve De and Ian wondering the same thing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Brian and Muz. We\u2019re here – let\u2019s ride.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Keith and Steve Dr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Elisa and Lou. Lou hoping she\u2019d just spotted some blue sky. She hadn\u2019t.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Backmarkers Stevie and Martin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Charles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The logistics for today\u2019s trip to Dalby Forest started with \u201cAnd now for something completely different\u2026\u201d And, boy, was it different! Despite a misleading postcode for our start point, a temperature of just 12 degrees, constant drizzle, a tandem taking a scenic detour, another tandem suffering a mashed up chain ring and snapped chain, and … Continue reading “Dalby Forest – 13 Jul 24”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3373","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\/3373","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=3373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3376,"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373\/revisions\/3376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}