{"id":3864,"date":"2025-03-08T21:08:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T21:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/?p=3864"},"modified":"2025-03-08T21:08:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T21:08:36","slug":"birkin-8-march-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/birkin-8-march-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Birkin 8 March 25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had a cracking start to the season with a glorious first ride out with tandem trekkers today. The spring sunshine made it feel like we were on holiday and we all agreed it was an extremely relaxed and enjoyable ride from Birkin round the very flat but still beautiful countryside round Selby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"872\" src=\"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Birkin08032025-1024x872.jpg\" alt=\"A pre ride group shot of 8 lycra clad cyclists  smiling straight into the camera with grass and trees against a bright blue cloudless sky, in the background\" class=\"wp-image-3865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Birkin08032025-1024x872.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Birkin08032025-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Birkin08032025-768x654.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Birkin08032025-1536x1308.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Birkin08032025-1200x1022.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Birkin08032025.jpg 1602w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Multiple road ahead closed signs caused only slight concern and we merrily rode on sure that nothing would stop us. Indeed it didn&#8217;t, though if we had needed to invent a quick detour we were confident that we would have managed it and still made it to the caf\u00e9 for lunch.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Birkin_2_08032025-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"An action shot of 3 pairs mounted on their tandems  at a road intersection\" class=\"wp-image-3866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Birkin_2_08032025-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Birkin_2_08032025-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Birkin_2_08032025-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Birkin_2_08032025-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Birkin_2_08032025-2048x1542.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Birkin_2_08032025-1200x904.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We got there in record time and had a very nice lunch in the sun, and even an icecream.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were a small group of 8 trekkers today, but we certainly had quality and a good time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Birkin_4_08032025-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A selfie from Ride leader Louise, of 3 tandem pairs mid ride\" class=\"wp-image-3867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Birkin_4_08032025-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Birkin_4_08032025-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Birkin_4_08032025-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Birkin_4_08032025-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Birkin_4_08032025-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Birkin_4_08032025-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a cracking start to the season with a glorious first ride out with tandem trekkers today. The spring sunshine made it feel like we were on holiday and we all agreed it was an extremely relaxed and enjoyable ride from Birkin round the very flat but still beautiful countryside round Selby. Multiple road &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/birkin-8-march-25\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Birkin 8 March 25&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3864","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\/3864","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3868,"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions\/3868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}