{"id":77,"date":"2012-09-04T15:35:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T15:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exmoorcentre.co.uk\/?p=77"},"modified":"2012-09-05T14:11:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T14:11:08","slug":"mountain-biking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/exmoorcentre.co.uk\/wordpress_4\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Biking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a meeting out at The Exmoor Centre today and decided to combine it with a bit of exercise so set off on the trusty old Ribble mountain bike.<\/p>\n<p>The Exmoor Centre really is a haven for off road cycling as the pictures below show. These were all taken within a few minutes of the bunkhouse.<\/p>\n<p>First one a downhill MTB dream, steep rocky with some jumps and drop-offs. Once tarmaced this track still has big lumps of metalled surface to ease the pain for a second here and there. \u00a0I was heading up today which is just not fun at all.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"lane1\" src=\"https:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/102796422\/iphone%20sept%202012%20021.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"560\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Second, the approach to the bunkhouse from the west, very steep and rocky, washed out slippery bedrock in places. Nearly always an &#8216;off&#8217; somewhere down this track!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"west of centre\" src=\"https:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/102796422\/iphone%20sept%202012%20024.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"560\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Top flat section of the previous lane, much more gentle going but a few wheel stopper mud sections and some super slippery bits can catch you out if you&#8217;re clipped into your pedals!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"gentle lane\" src=\"https:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/102796422\/iphone%20sept%202012%20025.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"560\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a meeting out at The Exmoor Centre today and decided to combine it with a bit of exercise so set off on the trusty old Ribble mountain bike. The Exmoor Centre really is a haven for off road &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/exmoorcentre.co.uk\/wordpress_4\/?p=77\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/exmoorcentre.co.uk\/wordpress_4\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/exmoorcentre.co.uk\/wordpress_4\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/exmoorcentre.co.uk\/wordpress_4\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/exmoorcentre.co.uk\/wordpress_4\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/exmoorcentre.co.uk\/wordpress_4\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/exmoorcentre.co.uk\/wordpress_4\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"http:\/\/exmoorcentre.co.uk\/wordpress_4\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/exmoorcentre.co.uk\/wordpress_4\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/exmoorcentre.co.uk\/wordpress_4\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/exmoorcentre.co.uk\/wordpress_4\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}