{"id":1128,"date":"2008-10-12T19:49:29","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T09:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/bikes\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2008-10-12T21:44:15","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T11:44:15","slug":"mudgee-via-denman-home-via-lithgow-and-sackville-and-wisemans-ferries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/?p=1128","title":{"rendered":"Return to Mudgee &#8211; Brizzer&#8217;s Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mudgee via Denman. Home via Lithgow and Sackville and Wiseman&#8217;s Ferries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/bikes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/imgp36243.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1125\" title=\"imgp36243\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/bikes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/imgp36243-420x315.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/imgp36243-420x315.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/imgp36243.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like Scrounger I started the ride solo but only as far as Wollombi. Rare to be the only bike there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/bikes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/imgp36263.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1124\" title=\"imgp36263\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/bikes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/imgp36263-420x315.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/imgp36263-420x315.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/imgp36263.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ready to go!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/bikes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/imgp36273.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1123\" title=\"imgp36273\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/bikes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/imgp36273-420x315.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/imgp36273-420x315.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/imgp36273.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First stop Denman. Small but delicious $10 steak for lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Nige is demonstrating his new &#8220;no smile&#8221; policy for photographs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/bikes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/imgp36313.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1127\" title=\"imgp36313\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/bikes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/imgp36313-420x315.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/imgp36313-420x315.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/imgp36313.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Capertee Valley which I believe is the second largest enclosed valley in the world after The Grand Canyon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/bikes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/imgp36333.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1126\" title=\"imgp36333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/bikes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/imgp36333-420x315.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/imgp36333-420x315.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/imgp36333.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nige not smiling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/bikes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/imgp36292.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1122\" title=\"imgp36292\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/bikes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/imgp36292-420x315.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/imgp36292-420x315.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/imgp36292.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nige proving that you can try too hard not to smile<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/bikes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/imgp36303.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1121\" title=\"imgp36303\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/bikes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/imgp36303-420x315.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/imgp36303-420x315.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/imgp36303.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and Scrounger showing that he doesn&#8217;t give a rat&#8217;s razoo about the &#8220;no smile&#8221; policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mudgee via Denman. Home via Lithgow and Sackville and Wiseman&#8217;s Ferries. Like Scrounger I started the ride solo but only as far as Wollombi. Rare to be the only bike there. Ready to go! First stop Denman. Small but delicious $10 steak for lunch. Nige is demonstrating his new &#8220;no smile&#8221; policy for photographs. Capertee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1138,"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}