{"id":641420,"date":"2026-06-16T10:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/641420\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T10:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:23:10","slug":"in-pictures-new-dalbeattie-bike-track-proves-a-hit-with-riders-at-world-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/641420\/","title":{"rendered":"In pictures: New Dalbeattie bike track proves a hit with riders at world event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new bike track in the south of Scotland been credited with creating the &#8220;perfect atmosphere&#8221; for a world championship qualifier at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Dalbeattie pump track &#8211; a cycling circuit of loops, bumps and turns &#8211; was built at a cost of more than \u00a3700,000 as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cy42e9z7ex3o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the wider \u00a38m Rocks and Wheels redevelopment of a former school building.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Organisers Velosolutions said Scotland had &#8220;put on a show&#8221; for its event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In addition to the bike track a 52-bed bunkhouse, 100-seat cafe, indoor bouldering facility and community rooms for hire are part of the development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new bike track in the south of Scotland been credited with creating the &#8220;perfect atmosphere&#8221; for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-641420","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\/641420","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=641420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}