{"id":4312,"date":"2016-07-21T21:07:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T03:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/?p=4312"},"modified":"2016-07-21T21:07:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T03:07:59","slug":"motorcycle-rally-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/motorcycle-rally-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year I try to participate in a motorcycle rally sponsored by a club member. This year the rally took place in Canon City, Colorado, pretty close to home.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing this topic is not of great interest to many people I will keep the narrative short and fill in with photos.<\/p>\n<p>We had around 16 people to begin with, but mechanical failures took out a few riders the first day. The core group was 8 &#8211; 12 depending on destination; some people wanted to visit different venues, typical of rallies such as this.<\/p>\n<p>The primary destinations were Bishop&#8217;s Castle, a structure built by one guy over the last 50 years or so, and a ride to the top of Pike&#8217;s Peak.<\/p>\n<p>We begin with Bishop&#8217;s Castle:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4313\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/554.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4313\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4313\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/554-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Bishop's Castle\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/554-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/554-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/554-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bishop&#8217;s Castle<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4314\" style=\"width: 295px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/555.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4314\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4314\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/555-285x300.jpg\" alt=\"Windows in Castle\" width=\"285\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/555-285x300.jpg 285w, https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/555-768x809.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/555-972x1024.jpg 972w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Windows in Castle<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4315\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/559.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4315\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/559-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Every castle needs a dragon, right?\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/559-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/559-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/559-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Every castle needs a dragon, right?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We had fun walking around, up, and through this place.<\/p>\n<p>With this visit, rides through the countryside, and lunch on the road, Saturday was a pretty full day. Sunday was the Pike&#8217;s Peak ride.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4316\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/590.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4316\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4316\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/590-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"Club members at the top of Pike's Peak. I am at upper right.\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/590-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/590-768x633.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/590-1024x845.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Club members at the top of Pike&#8217;s Peak. I am at upper right.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4317\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/579.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4317\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4317\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/579-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"Our guys and bikes, top of Pike's Peak. My red jacket (left) is on my Concours.\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/579-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/579-768x462.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/579-1024x615.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our guys and bikes, top of Pike&#8217;s Peak. My red jacket (left) is on my Concours.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I had ridden up on Friday and home on Monday. It was a pretty good weekend!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now. Thanks for looking in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year I try to participate in a motorcycle rally sponsored by a club member. This year the rally took place in Canon City, Colorado, pretty close to home. Knowing this topic is not of great interest to many people I will keep the narrative short and fill in with photos. We had around 16 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4312"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4320,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions\/4320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}