{"id":39,"date":"2021-05-19T13:09:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T12:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sirenmag.net\/?p=39"},"modified":"2021-11-09T18:55:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T18:55:47","slug":"biking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sirenmag.net\/index.php\/2021\/05\/19\/biking\/","title":{"rendered":"Biking Boost for Britons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing quite like a good bike ride to blow the cobwebs away. Even in cycle-unfriendly Britain, there are a lot more cyclists on the road. Leisure time cycling has increased 60% and during the lockdown period, cycling was up 200%.<\/p>\n<p>New bikes, and also e-bikes have been part of the phenomenon. Having some battery power to assist you up those hills makes a definite improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Across the\u00a0National Cycle Network (NCN), which totals 12,000 miles of routes across the UK, Sustrans figures shows cycling and walking were up by 25% in 2020 compared with 2019 data. People find cycling in nice areas therapeutic. Of course major conurbations can be a nightmare with pollution and motorist hazards making travelling by bike stressful. It is to be hoped that the transition to pedal powered transport instead of cars is going to be a permanent one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing quite like a good bike ride to blow the cobwebs away. Even in cycle-unfriendly Britain, there are a lot more cyclists on the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,34],"tags":[9,14,26,20,19],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heath-wellness","category-living","tag-biking","tag-climate","tag-environment","tag-health","tag-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirenmag.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirenmag.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirenmag.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirenmag.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirenmag.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sirenmag.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/sirenmag.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirenmag.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirenmag.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirenmag.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirenmag.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}