{"id":22708,"date":"2024-03-13T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=22708"},"modified":"2024-03-13T09:00:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T08:00:22","slug":"wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wow\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At about 2 or 3 kms from here there&#8217;s a chateau &#8211; Chateau du Peuch. It&#8217;s more or less downhill all the way from my house and in summer when the tourists are here you often see middle-aged couples who have hired or borrowed bikes struggling to get up the slope which is quite steep in places. It&#8217;s a wonder there aren&#8217;t more heart attacks!<\/p>\n<p>I would never have attempted it on my old electric bike but hit the hill yesterday afternoon. Going down was quite an experience as after the recent rains there was a lot of loose gravel on the road surface, but coming back up was exhilarating.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/peuch.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/peuch_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a flattish bit at the start in front of the chateau entrance and then it&#8217;s more or less up-hill all the way with windy bends in places that I had to slow down for. Otherwise I hit 40 kmh in places and never went below 37 kmh &#8211; with no pedalling! This bike is totally amazing \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At about 2 or 3 kms from here there&#8217;s a chateau &#8211; Chateau du Peuch. It&#8217;s more or less downhill all the way from my house and in summer when the tourists are here you often see middle-aged couples who have hired or borrowed bikes struggling to get up the slope which is quite steep &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wow\/\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22709,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22708\/revisions\/22709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}