{"id":16112,"date":"2021-07-07T06:35:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T13:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/?p=16112"},"modified":"2023-10-18T19:58:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T02:58:35","slug":"nbg-transam-rider-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2021\/07\/07\/nbg-transam-rider-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"NBG TransAm Rider Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">NBG TransAm Rider Blog<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15285\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2020\/02\/15\/ride-a-lighting-to-indy-get-free-aero-panniers-and-a-podcast\/nbg_logo_web\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NBG_Logo_Web.png?fit=1538%2C1657&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1538,1657\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"NBG_Logo_Web\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NBG_Logo_Web.png?fit=950%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-15285 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NBG_Logo_Web.png?resize=235%2C254\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NBG_Logo_Web.png?w=1538&amp;ssl=1 1538w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NBG_Logo_Web.png?resize=557%2C600&amp;ssl=1 557w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NBG_Logo_Web.png?resize=950%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 950w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NBG_Logo_Web.png?resize=768%2C827&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NBG_Logo_Web.png?resize=1426%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1426w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">R<\/span>iders who cycle on all or part of our coast to coast route will be able to document their efforts on the blog we will construct for them. This will give them the bragging rights of having their ride seen by a large audience of vicarious adventure seekers. And year in, year out as these ride stories come in, complete with pictures, our cross country route will become more and more familiar to larger and larger numbers of people.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span class=\"s1\">As these travel blogs also serve as a <\/span>visualization tool for cyclists new to cross country riding, they will also show the ordinary people who will have helped our cyclists get on their way. These reports will give face to an America motorists never see. Those looking in from the outside will see the loving acts never seen on the nightly news or through our car windshields as they restore faith in our fellow American brothers and sisters.<span class=\"s2\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBG TransAm Rider Blog Riders who cycle on all or part of our coast to coast route will be able&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2021\/07\/07\/nbg-transam-rider-blog\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-4bS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15617,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2020\/12\/07\/nbg-business-plan-overview\/","url_meta":{"origin":16112,"position":0},"title":"NBG Business Plan Overview (draft)","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"December 7, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 In order to demonstrate that the National Bicycle Greenway is for all Americans, we long have needed to do this from a central location. 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