{"id":3932,"date":"2025-04-12T21:23:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T21:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/?p=3932"},"modified":"2025-04-12T21:23:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T21:23:55","slug":"wyke-track-session-6-apr-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wyke-track-session-6-apr-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyke Track Session &#8211; 6 Apr 25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last Sunday was an unusual morning in more ways than one. Firstly it was a Sunday, secondly we had an excess of pilots over stokers and thirdly wearing my Charlotte&#8217;s Tandems charity hat we had mother and daughter trying out a wheelchair tandem with a view to borrowing it from said charity and fourthly we had a familiar face as interloper on her recumbent trike (Mrs M, that is!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/488553793_1179654120527275_8640385170158656750_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sam sticking her tongue out as she pilots from behind her daughter on the wheelchair tandem\" class=\"wp-image-3934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/488553793_1179654120527275_8640385170158656750_n-1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/488553793_1179654120527275_8640385170158656750_n-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So a varied field of machinery, variety is after all the spice of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Lou-and-kieran-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Lou and Kieran at the side of the track, mounted on their bike. The sky is bright blue and the path is even tarmac with grass verges.\" class=\"wp-image-3935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Lou-and-kieran-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Lou-and-kieran-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Lou-and-kieran-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Lou-and-kieran.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a lovely sunny day although with a stiff breeze keeping the warmth at bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/c70174af-3bff-479f-a155-d9261f598f77-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Jules on the back of a tandem with her face appearing orange from the suns reflection of her pilots luminous orange jacket.\" class=\"wp-image-3936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/c70174af-3bff-479f-a155-d9261f598f77-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/c70174af-3bff-479f-a155-d9261f598f77-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/c70174af-3bff-479f-a155-d9261f598f77-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/c70174af-3bff-479f-a155-d9261f598f77.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to Barney for loading and unloading whilst I claimed a dodgy back&#8230;.(It&#8217;s true I tell you!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to everyone who came. I think we had a good morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Julie-and-Carlie.jpeg\" alt=\"Julie and Carlie at the side of the track with their tandem, they seem to be checking the saddle height before mounting the bike.\" class=\"wp-image-3937\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Julie-and-Carlie.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Julie-and-Carlie-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Julie-and-Carlie-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Julie-and-Carlie-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Write up by Drew<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday was an unusual morning in more ways than one. Firstly it was a Sunday, secondly we had an excess of pilots over stokers and thirdly wearing my Charlotte&#8217;s Tandems charity hat we had mother and daughter trying out a wheelchair tandem with a view to borrowing it from said charity and fourthly we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wyke-track-session-6-apr-25\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wyke Track Session &#8211; 6 Apr 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-3932","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\/3932","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=3932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3938,"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions\/3938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tandemtrekkers.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}