{"id":416,"date":"2011-05-23T13:33:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T12:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ec2-34-242-84-40.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com\/?p=416"},"modified":"2011-05-23T13:33:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T12:33:04","slug":"i-rode-with-brian-lopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/i-rode-with-brian-lopes\/","title":{"rendered":"I rode with Brian Lopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ec2-34-242-84-40.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Photo-May-21-15-27-28.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-417\" title=\"Tom Geraghty with Brian Lopes\" src=\"http:\/\/ec2-34-242-84-40.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Photo-May-21-15-27-28-1024x764.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Geraghty with Brian Lopes\" width=\"725\" height=\"540\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I won a competition last week to ride with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianlopes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Lopes<\/a> at Dalby, during the World Cup XC race there. 6 of us ended up riding on the day with Brian, on a short stretch of the red route, with a few stops to chat and bug him about his career, bike, and life in general. It was a great day out, and Brian was really awesome, welcoming, and chatty. At one point, he was behind me on a technical singletrack section; I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever felt such pressure to ride well, than when I had Lopes on my tail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I won a competition last week to ride with Brian Lopes at Dalby, during the World Cup XC race there. 6 of us ended up riding on the day with Brian, on a short stretch of the red route, with a few stops to chat and bug him about his career, bike, and life in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/i-rode-with-brian-lopes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I rode with Brian Lopes&#8221;<\/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":[2,1],"tags":[10,12,54],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-blog","tag-biking-2","tag-brian-lopes","tag-mtb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}