{"id":370729,"date":"2026-01-15T05:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T05:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/370729\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T05:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T05:11:12","slug":"york-minster-send-off-for-27000km-bike-ride-to-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/370729\/","title":{"rendered":"York Minster send-off for 27,000km bike ride to New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  As reported in The Press, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorkpress.co.uk\/news\/25758628.york-former-heworth-resident-18-starts-27-000km-ride-home\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">18-year-old George Malcolm set off this morning (January 14) from York Minster for the first leg of his 18-month epic journey back to the family home in New Zealand.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Malcolm family had returned back to Heworth for Christmas and the New Year from their home in Nelson on the South Island.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Recommended reading:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorkpress.co.uk\/news\/25763677.six-days-still-no-fix-york-pipe-burst\/?ref=ial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Six days and still no fix after York pipe burst<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorkpress.co.uk\/news\/25763564.crash-north-yorkshire-town-centre\/?ref=ial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Crash in North Yorkshire town centre<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorkpress.co.uk\/news\/25763561.flooding-possible-york-city-centre-river-levels-rise-following-storm-goretti\/?ref=ial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Flooding possible in York city centre as river levels rise following Storm Goretti<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  With mum Ruth, dad Angus and brother and sister Tom and Emily already en route to New Zealand on a plane via Hong Kong, the guard of honour seeing George off from Deangate included grandmother Jean Mackay, his great aunt Ann, Ruth&#8217;s friend Keeley Shaw and her mum and dad, Pauline and Peter.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Jean Mackay said: &#8220;My husband Neill enjoyed cycling and we&#8217;re all very proud of George.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We&#8217;re a little bit nervous but excited and wish him all the very best.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It&#8217;s something he needs and it fits his personality perfectly.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  George is riding to Bradford to catch up with an aunt on the first leg, and said he intended to take each day at a time, and only thinking about the next stage after that.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He has a mid-2027 deadline of arrival back in Nelson in order to continue with his ambitions of becoming a park ranger in New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As reported in The Press, 18-year-old George Malcolm set off this morning (January 14) from York Minster for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-370729","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\/370729","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=370729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}