{"id":585068,"date":"2026-05-15T07:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585068\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T07:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:22:08","slug":"normans-to-ride-to-battle-of-hastings-site-on-solar-powered-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585068\/","title":{"rendered":"Normans to ride to Battle of Hastings site on solar-powered bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The cycling event aims to promote sustainable travel by encouraging technical collaboration and the adoption of the Vh\u00e9lio, an open-source vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Battle as a town also backs the motion, as it had previously declared a Climate Emergency within the town council, and currently has a solar town initiative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With support from English Heritage and Pevensey Town Trust, participants will ride into the town in the afternoon of 15 May to be greeted by locals, including the mayor, Andrew Barton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As his last duty as mayor, Barton will be awarding the riders prizes designed and made by students at Claverham Community College, for the most beautiful design, the most innovative design and the unluckiest team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Neill added: &#8220;We all look forward to this being the start of a new cycle event between Rouen and Battle \u2013 with a bigger event next year for Year of the Normans, and thereafter.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cycling event aims to promote sustainable travel by encouraging technical collaboration and the adoption of the Vh\u00e9lio,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-585068","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\/585068","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=585068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}