{"id":188,"date":"2008-06-01T12:49:35","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T11:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/06\/01\/gnarly-biking-in-rotorua\/"},"modified":"2008-06-01T12:49:35","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T11:49:35","slug":"gnarly-biking-in-rotorua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/06\/01\/gnarly-biking-in-rotorua\/","title":{"rendered":"Gnarly biking in Rotorua"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=lifeblogimage><img src=\"\/WorldTour07\/wp-content\/uploads\/rotoruamountainbike.JPG\"><\/div>\n<p>The good thing about staying with the locals is that you get to go to the good places you&#8217;d otherwise miss. Paul took us out to the gentle slopes at the back of Rotorua for a quick mountain bike, and despite Caroline&#8217;s previous experiences, she still came along. The whole of the forest is a maze of tracks to be explored, and are designed for bikers with gentle slopes along with weaving downhills and jumps to test your balance. The bike&#8217;s lack of toe clips meant the bike and I parted company on one jump, gravity brought us back together with a bump though. Apart from that I only came off once, the pedal clipping a log and throwing me off onto the soft forest floor &#8211; haven&#8217;t had that much fun on a bike since my school days. Caroline chose to skip those crazy downhills, maybe she has really retired now, or is just more cautious when I say &#8220;fun mountain biking&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good thing about staying with the locals is that you get to go to the good places you&#8217;d otherwise miss. Paul took us out to the gentle slopes at the back of Rotorua for a quick mountain bike, and despite Caroline&#8217;s previous experiences, she still came along. The whole of the forest is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/2008\/06\/01\/gnarly-biking-in-rotorua\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gnarly biking in Rotorua&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simongormley.co.uk\/WorldTour07\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}