{"id":643,"date":"2008-11-16T18:04:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T08:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=643"},"modified":"2008-11-19T11:26:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T01:26:08","slug":"the-channel-challenge-daves-red-bitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=643","title":{"rendered":"The Channel Challenge &#8211; Dave&#8217;s Red Bitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/audax-tas.jpg\" title=\"audax-tas.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/audax-tas.jpg\" title=\"audax-tas.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/audax-tas.jpg\" title=\"audax-tas.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/audax-tas.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"audax-tas.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dave of the red italian carbon\/mid-life crisis (formerly &#8216;Surly Dave&#8217;) asked if I would post the following for him. Now, I think it is a legit ride, but it may just be Dave organising another opportunity to show off his new red, racy bitch, er, I mean bike. Turn up. It&#8217;ll be a fkn radical ride. Hunners, you better get on it. I&#8217;ve been training and there are only four more weeks until Carnival action kicks off&#8230; don&#8217;t wanna be blown away by the apprentice now do ya?<\/p>\n<p>Dave this one is for you:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The inaugural Channel Challenge 110km ride is on this coming Sunday 23 November. The ride traverses some of southern Tasmania&#8217;s most scenic waterfront roads with four major climbs as it passes from Huonville through Cygnet over to Kettering and back around the Channel. A moderate\/hard ride with 1500m of ascending. There is also a 50km option for riders seeking a shorter day in the saddle.<\/em><em>The ride starts from the Huon Jet Boat Base at 8am &#8211; turn left just before the Huon River bridge if you&#8217;re coming from the north. Plenty of parking, toilets and a 24-hour service station nearby. Be there by 7.30am to register. Entry is $10, $5 for Audax Australia members. The ride is unsupported and has a time limit of seven hours. Riders will need to to be self sufficient and of reasonable fitness.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Maps:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikely.com\/maps\/bike-path\/Channel-Challenge-50km\" rel=\"nofollow\"><font color=\"#3b5998\">http:\/\/www.bikely.com\/maps<\/font>\/bike-path\/Channel-Challenge-50km<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikely.com\/maps\/bike-path\/Channel-Challenge-100km\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.bikely.com\/maps\/bike-path\/Channel-Challenge-100km<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Online entry:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.formspring.com\/forms\/?348145-6uP8mayWH8\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.formspring.com\/forms\/?348145-6uP8mayWH8<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Facebook page:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=97109255373\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=97109255373<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave of the red italian carbon\/mid-life crisis (formerly &#8216;Surly Dave&#8217;) asked if I would post the following for him. Now, I think it is a legit ride, but it may just be Dave organising another opportunity to show off his new red, racy bitch, er, I mean bike. Turn up. It&#8217;ll be a fkn radical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=643\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Channel Challenge &#8211; Dave&#8217;s Red Bitch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}