{"id":213753,"date":"2026-01-02T20:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/213753\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T20:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:55:08","slug":"bike-left-at-temple-campsite-near-lake-ohau-attracts-police-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/213753\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike left at Temple Campsite near Lake \u014chau attracts police interest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The unattended bike, pictured at Temple Campsite near Lake \u014chau, west of Twizel. Photo \/ NZ Police<\/p>\n

There are fears for the owner of a bike left near a South Island lake as police make an urgent plea for information, a week after the bike was first spotted.<\/p>\n

\n The bike has been at the Temple Campsite shelter off Lake \u014chau Rd, 50km west of Twizel, since at
\n least December 27, Sergeant Matt Sheat said.\n <\/p>\n

\"TempleTemple Campsite is near Lake \u014chau, about 50km west of Twizel. Image \/ Google Maps<\/p>\n

\u201cOur concern is that the owner may be overdue from a trip or have got into trouble in the area, and we want to hear from the bike\u2019s owner, or anyone who may know who it belongs to,\u201d said Sheat, the Otago Coastal Search and Rescue coordinator.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you recognise this bike, or may have seen who left it at the Temple Campsite shelter, please contact us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 2 Jan, 2026 07:51 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1975,78073,1070,15357,28164,1888,129432,15415,12469,2514,13207,101,5812,3180,111,43,139,69,2738,46728,675,1240,9636,79677,684,25444,686],"class_list":["post-213753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-at","tag-attracts","tag-bike","tag-campsite","tag-fears","tag-first","tag-hau","tag-information","tag-interest","tag-island","tag-lake","tag-left","tag-make","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-owner","tag-plea","tag-police","tag-south","tag-spotted","tag-temple","tag-there","tag-urgent","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}