Over an awesome breakfast at Bean Scene, I convinced Anton & Jeremy to hire bikes too – they didn’t really require much convincing to be honest.<\/p>\n
So we headed down to the bike shop and got another couple of 2nd hand bikes, helmets & locks. We rode up to the conference, dodging traffic, and hung out for a bit in the lounge checking email etc.<\/p>\n
After a while we headed out to Lunch at the Governor on George St. After lunch we decided to make a little detour on the way back to the conference, via Lanarch Castle – a quick 40 something KM round trip.<\/p>\n
The weather was awesome<\/em>, warm, but not too hot, although the sun was burning, even through sunscreen.<\/p>\n We took Highcliffe Road, which heads along the ridge of the peninsula, so to start with we had a bit of climb. After that there were a few minor hills, though nothing too killer.<\/p>\n After about 8 KM along the ridge we finally got to the castle. Having ridden for two hours to get there I thought they might shout us the entry fee, haha. Regardless we hung out in the garden for a while, drank a bit and took a few photos.<\/p>\n The ride down was awesome<\/strong>, what took us about an hour of climbing took literally 5 minutes to come down, at serious speed. My great slick city tires weren’t gripping too well under brakes, which made the whole experience a little more fun. At one point I locked both wheels up and slid for a good 20 metres on the smooth bitumen, weeee.<\/p>\n The ride home along the seaside road was great, although the traffic was a little annoying. It’s dead flat, funny that, and quite smooth, so we made really good time.<\/p>\n Another awesome day in Dunedin.<\/p>\n Thanks to the Blanchinator for some of the photos.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over an awesome breakfast at Bean Scene, I convinced Anton & Jeremy to hire bikes too – they didn’t really require much convincing to be honest. So we headed down to the bike shop and got another couple of 2nd hand bikes, helmets & locks. We rode up to the conference, dodging traffic, and hung […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[39,37,22,13,21,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7690,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960\/revisions\/7690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}