{"id":14615,"date":"2016-02-25T19:36:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T19:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=14615"},"modified":"2016-02-25T19:36:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T19:36:17","slug":"day-4-africa-biking-to-knysna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=14615","title":{"rendered":"Day 4 Africa biking to Knysna"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Plettenberg<\/a>
Plettenberg Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fortunately today was a short distance both because of a bad night with an upset stomach and also because of rain & low cloud \ud83d\ude42 It’s unfortunate that a seaside place is built on top of a 300 foot hill as well \ud83d\ude41 especially when the b&b is at the bottom! The N2 was busy as well in the warm drizzle. Where I discovered that the big trucks use the shoulder \u00a0so that cars can overtake them \ud83d\ude41 \u00a0 A club cyclist stopped to have a chat when I was checking my front brake – first cyclist I’ve got to speak to here \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"Road<\/a>
Road fencing – lets hope the cars don’t crash.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I took a coffee and scone\u00a0at the Radical Raptors cafe & tried to dry out a bit. It was then a slog of a climb up to 1,000feet not a big climb but one of those where you think a brake is on. Even coming down through the shanty town wasn’t so pleasurable, amazingly they are building a huge fence (The South Africans seem to love their fences) to stop folks crossing over the wide\u00a0road, it doesn’t seem to have occurred to them to built a bridge or tunnel so folks can cross the road safely.<\/p>\n

By the time I reached Knysna, Mountain Bike Heaven so the poster board says, the rain had stopped, the Amber Guest Lodge is perfect, I can honestly say everywhere I’ve stayed has been pretty well perfect! This place even has decent WiFi.<\/p>\n

\"Fixing<\/a>
Fixing front brake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

First job was to find a bike repair guy to sort my brakes out. The young Ugandan lad in Ultimate Bikes took one glance and said my brake block was in upside down \ud83d\ude41 and the caliper lever bent \ud83d\ude41 both a result of the air trip and my gross incompetence) but anyway quickly fixed ready for the mountain passes to come. A quick going over with W\u00fcrth HHS 2000 spray on grease and I\u00a0was\u00a0ready to roll for \u00a32.<\/p>\n

Tonight it was down to Blend for a perfect Pizza & ice cream with beer. A good ending to the day.<\/p>\n

Strava says I did 21.5 miles<\/a> and 1639 feet of climbing plus another 9.2 miles touring Knysna.<\/p>\n

Pictures are here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fortunately today was a short distance both because of a bad night with an upset stomach and also because of rain & low cloud \ud83d\ude42 It’s unfortunate that a seaside place is built on top of a 300 foot hill as well \ud83d\ude41 especially when the b&b is at the bottom! The N2 was busy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-biking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}