{"id":634,"date":"1988-08-05T21:50:00","date_gmt":"1988-08-05T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/?p=634"},"modified":"2026-08-15T00:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T00:13:15","slug":"hutchinson-ks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/hutchinson-ks\/","title":{"rendered":"Hutchinson, KS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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And once again, I was on the road.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Near Seward, KS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Just after crossing highway 281, I encountered what the map labeled as “Gravel.” In reality, it was deep, loose-packed sand. My 3\/4″ tire was worthless. I fell twice, once into a patch of “Texas Tacks.” I got a lot of punctures, and I don’t mean in my tires. For much of the way, I had to walk. Biting flies and tiny, annoying gnats were everywhere. It took about two hours in the noonday sun to cross the 8-mile gravel stretch.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The gravel stretch that people warned me about.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dust-fine sand. Bikecentennial could have easily routed us onto a paved roadway. I think this “gravel” stretch was intentionally put in for challenge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There’s the 20mm tire in the back. After I fell into a patch of Texas Tacks (Goatheads), I walked the bike.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My stop that Friday was in Hutchinson. I checked into the Astro Hotel. I was in no mood to camp after that gravel stretch.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And once again, I was on the road. Just after crossing highway 281, I encountered what the map labeled as “Gravel.” In reality, it was deep, loose-packed sand. My 3\/4″ tire was worthless. I fell twice, once into a patch of “Texas Tacks.” I got a lot of punctures, and I don’t mean in my … Continue reading Hutchinson, KS<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}