{"id":664786,"date":"2026-06-29T18:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/664786\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T18:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:47:10","slug":"melrose-festival-bike-ride-a-big-hit-with-cyclists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/664786\/","title":{"rendered":"Melrose Festival Bike Ride a big hit with cyclists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The annual event drew in 353 participants as part of the 2026 celebrations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Headed up by Lead Cyclists Freya Chamberlin, Sophia Scott and Olivia Smith, the riders set off from Gibson Park towards Buccleuch Street.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  From there, they went on to Abbey Street, Market Square, East Port, Priorswalk and Dean Road before finishing the first leg at Newstead.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The second section set off along Annay Road and across the Tweed to Gattonside.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The third leg travelled along the Lowood Bridge to Darnick and Abbotsford Road.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Lastly, the ride finished up at the rugby ground to cap off a hugely successful community event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The annual event drew in 353 participants as part of the 2026 celebrations. Headed up by Lead Cyclists&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-664786","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\/664786","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=664786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}