{"id":242723,"date":"2026-07-14T00:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242723\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T00:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:57:08","slug":"cyclists-ride-in-400-mile-trek-across-erie-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242723\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclists ride in 400-mile trek across Erie Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rochester, N.Y. \u2014 More than 600 cyclists from 37 states and Canada are riding across New York this week for the <a href=\"https:\/\/13wham.com\/newsletter-daily\/cyclists-celebrate-erie-canals-200th-anniversary-with-state-spanning-ride-buffalo-albany-cycle-the-erie-canal-bike-tour-bicentennial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">28th annual Cycle the Erie Canal Bike Tour.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the third day of the 400-mile trek, where the group is visiting historical canal communities, local businesses, and landmarks across the state.<\/p>\n<p>13WHAM caught up with riders during an afternoon rest stop in Rochester.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been great, I love riding my bike,\u201d said Kevin Flaherty of Long Island. \u201cThe support is great, the people are great. I\u2019ve met so many people, and there\u2019s so much more to all the trails across the United States. Everybody from all around has been around eastern Kentucky, California, Virginia, and North Carolina. I\u2019ve made a lot of friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cyclists are expected to reach Albany on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rochester, N.Y. \u2014 More than 600 cyclists from 37 states and Canada are riding across New York this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-242723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}