{"id":20357,"date":"2017-04-05T10:09:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T17:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=20357"},"modified":"2017-04-05T10:09:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T17:09:08","slug":"cyclovia-videoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=20357","title":{"rendered":"Cyclovia Videoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We took our bicycles downtown Sunday morning to ride in Cyclovia, a twice-yearly ride and street party. We&#8217;ve participated in six to date and so far each route&#8217;s been different, exposing us to parts of Tucson we don&#8217;t normally see. This one started at the old Mexican presidio in the heart of downtown and went south through a colorful barrio before doubling back to the start. <\/p>\n<p>I strapped the GoPro to my helmet and recorded most of the ride. The three short clips embedded here are roughly in order, from the start south and then back again.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s2ZI6eaYDyk?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Here and there along the route organizers had set up activity and information tents, and food trucks were out in force. We passed a portable zip line ride and a climbing cliff. There were live musicians here and there, but mostly DJs playing recorded music. We started early, so at first there weren&#8217;t too many other riders on the route. By the time we reached the south end and turned back north, it was starting to get crowded.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c96ocXxJbdg?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Crowded, as you can see, with families on bikes and walkers too, many of them obliviously stopping in bottlenecks. I used to call them oblivitrons, a word I think I made up, but which seems increasingly dated. Should I go with oblivibots?<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jc4tS4D9cg4?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Most of our serious riding friends won&#8217;t do Cyclovias, and I can see why. I quit participating in motorcycle poker and toy runs years ago, partly because of all the unsafe once-a-year riders who come out for them, partly because a lot of the participants are drunk after the first couple of stops. Drinking isn&#8217;t an issue with Cyclovia, but unsafe and unskilled riders absolutely are.<\/p>\n<p>Still, we always enjoy the outings, and occasionally I&#8217;ll get an idea for a future bicycle Hash House Harrier trail. This time around I was intrigued by that colorful old barrio, but if you look close at the section of the second video clip where I&#8217;m riding through it, you&#8217;ll see a flour mark on the street &#8230; other hashers have been there, and not too long ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We took our bicycles downtown Sunday morning to ride in Cyclovia, a twice-yearly ride and street party. We&#8217;ve participated in six to date and so far each route&#8217;s been different, exposing us to parts of Tucson we don&#8217;t normally see. This one started at the old Mexican presidio in the heart of downtown and went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,555,2],"tags":[2066,291,1995,313],"class_list":["post-20357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling","category-local-color","category-personal","tag-bicycle","tag-bicycling-2","tag-cyclovia","tag-tucson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20357"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20366,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20357\/revisions\/20366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}