{"id":482,"date":"2012-07-14T02:04:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T02:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idioteque.co.uk\/blog\/?p=482"},"modified":"2012-10-03T18:57:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T18:57:48","slug":"cycling-trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/?p=482","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Trips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many club members &#8211; perhaps a majority &#8211; enjoy cycling in some shape or form. Cycle trips are less formally arranged within the club cycling fraternity. When it comes to hill walking some hills sit well away from the road. As a result we sometimes like using a mountain bike to cover distances whenever possible.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/cycling.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cycling\" width=\"437\" height=\"282\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-618\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Numerous walks lend themselves to the use of bikes. A lot of the time the cycle in isn\u2019t greatly enhanced by the fact that you\u2019re going up hill. However the cycle out can be sheer bliss when you can take the weight off your feet and freewheel. Cycling also allows you to contemplate longer routes while keeping to daylight hours such as 50 kilometre route in Cairngorms. <\/p>\n<p>A number of Munro routes that a mountain bike can be used on to good effect are:<\/p>\n<ul>\nThe Cairngorms when accessed from Linn of Dee<br \/>\nCarn an Fhidhlair and An Sgarsoch from Glen Feshie<br \/>\nBeinn a\u2019 Bhuird and Ben Avon from Tomintoul<br \/>\nHills west of Glenshee from Inverey<br \/>\nGlen Affric hostel &amp; hills from Cannich<br \/>\nBen Alder and others via Culra Bothy from Dalwhinnie<br \/>\nSeanna Bhraigh from Oykel Bridge<br \/>\nBeinn Dearg near Blair Atholl<br \/>\nCarn a\u2019 Chalamain near Blair Atholl<br \/>\nMaile Lunndaidh &amp; other hills from Craig<br \/>\nLurg Mhor from Attadale<br \/>\nBen Lui from Dalrigh<br \/>\nBeinn Bhuidhe from at Loch Fyne<br \/>\nBeinn Mhanach from Auch<br \/>\nGulvain<\/ul>\n<p>A bike can help on a number of linear routes as well such as where you can cycle on roads back to where you\u2019ve parked your car:<\/p>\n<ul>\nSouth Glen Shiel Ridge<br \/>\nFive Sisters of Kintail<br \/>\nBen Lawers Range<br \/>\nStrathfarrar Hills<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many club members &#8211; perhaps a majority &#8211; enjoy cycling in some shape or form. Cycle trips are less formally arranged within the club cycling fraternity. When it comes to hill walking some hills sit well away from the road. As a result we sometimes like using a mountain bike &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-pursuits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}