{"id":191865,"date":"2025-10-05T19:47:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T19:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/191865\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T19:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T19:47:19","slug":"oldest-bike-shop-in-maine-hosts-successful-bike-fest-to-promote-cycling-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/191865\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldest bike shop in Maine hosts successful &#8216;Bike Fest&#8217; to promote cycling culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WESTBROOK, Maine (WGME) &#8212; The oldest bike shop in Maine celebrated a festival dedicated to bikes on Saturday in Westbrook.<\/p>\n<p>Ernie&#8217;s Cycle Shop held the third annual &#8220;Bike Fest&#8221; at Quarryside.<\/p>\n<p>Bike experts offered rides and lessons, as well as e-bike demos, food trucks, music, and raffles.<\/p>\n<p>A BikeFest coordinator says the goal is to make biking more accessible across Maine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now, we are at a time where people are realizing that cars aren&#8217;t the best way to get around all the time, and it&#8217;s so easy to do errands, go to school, go to work, either walking or biking,&#8221; BikeFest coordinator Paul Drinan said. &#8220;We really want to make bike and bike culture more accessible to people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Event organizers say the event had a great turnout of bikers and people who wanted to learn more about the bike culture in Maine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WESTBROOK, Maine (WGME) &#8212; The oldest bike shop in Maine celebrated a festival dedicated to bikes on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[95764,95768,49,48,635,53214,95767,95765,7990,95769,82,95766],"class_list":["post-191865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-bike-fest","tag-biking-accessibility","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-cycling-culture","tag-e-bike-demos","tag-ernies-cycle-shop","tag-maine","tag-paul-drinan","tag-sports","tag-westbrook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}