{"id":327847,"date":"2025-12-21T08:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T08:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/327847\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T08:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T08:32:07","slug":"dates-confirmed-for-reinvented-isle-of-man-gran-fondo-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/327847\/","title":{"rendered":"Dates confirmed for reinvented Isle of Man Gran Fondo event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first edition of a new mass-participant off-road cycling event through the Isle of Man will take place on 26 July, organisers have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The reincarnated event, which was previously held on closed public roads, will see riders compete in two classes \u2013 the Gran Fondo Gravel race and the Gran Fondo cross-country mountain bike race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ahead of the main events, two warm-up races \u2013 a non-competitive off-road version and a family-friendly ride on a closed-road circuit \u2013 have been arranged for 25 July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Organisers said the new off-road race had taken inspiration from the former End2End Mountain Bike Challenge, which had been run through the island&#8217;s plantations for 19 years until 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first edition of a new mass-participant off-road cycling event through the Isle of Man will take place&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-327847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}