{"id":584476,"date":"2026-05-14T23:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/584476\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T23:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:48:10","slug":"how-an-invasion-in-high-end-lycra-boosts-our-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/584476\/","title":{"rendered":"How an invasion in high-end lycra boosts our town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mike Blakeman runs local cycling project The Wheels of Fleet, and will see professional riders join its weekly Friday school bike &#8220;bus&#8221; to inspire the next generation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The Gralloch completely transforms Gatehouse of Fleet during the week of the event with thousands of cyclists descending on the town for the races, sportive or ultra race,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Many family members and visitors arrive to watch the excitement too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The town is unrecognisable over the week, with so many visiting cyclists and a pop-up campsite arriving just outside the town. There is such a buzz around the Gralloch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said that buzz extended beyond the weekend itself and boosted the economy all year round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The bigger impact, though, is the huge number of cyclists that now visit Gatehouse across the year to ride the famous world championship Gralloch course for themselves,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Blakeman runs local cycling project The Wheels of Fleet, and will see professional riders join its weekly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-584476","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\/584476","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=584476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}