{"id":5704,"date":"2019-11-23T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-30T09:50:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T13:50:41","slug":"ocean-pond-bike-rides-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=5704","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Pond Bike Rides"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/OceanPondBikeRides-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/OceanPondBikeRides-2.jpg\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"872\" data-original-width=\"910\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">We have been camped at Ocean Pond campground in Osceola National Forest for the past 12 nights. Our plan is to leave on Thanksgiving morning. The weather has been sunny everyday this week. The high temperatures have been between 68 to 75<sup>o<\/sup>F, the lows have been in the high 40\u2019s.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">This is\u00a0the perfect temperature for taking rides on our tandem bike. It\u2019s been 3 months since we have done any riding and besides being out-of-shape our hard seats have been punishing our soft tooshes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Except for SR250A and the campground roads all the forest roads are packed sand with lots of little potholes that we need to keep dodging. So we bike one day and rest one day to get used to the bike seats. So far our 4 rides have totaled only 56 miles and our average speed is just over 8 mph.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">We see an occasional car but these are pretty safe rides unless some hunter mistakes us for a deer, it is hunting season here in the forest.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/BiggerBikers-2.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/BiggerBikers-2.gif\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"149\" data-original-width=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been camped at Ocean Pond campground in Osceola National Forest for the past 12 nights. Our plan is to leave on Thanksgiving morning. The weather has been sunny everyday this week. The high temperatures have been between 68 to 75oF, the lows have been in the high 40\u2019s. This is\u00a0the perfect temperature for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/?p=5704\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ocean Pond Bike Rides<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1920trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6786,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions\/6786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcpoa.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}