{"id":1729,"date":"2015-05-16T21:21:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T21:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.obliquepanic.com\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2015-05-16T21:21:50","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T21:21:50","slug":"the-back-roads-to-ipswich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/biking\/the-back-roads-to-ipswich\/","title":{"rendered":"The back roads to Ipswich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I attempted the scenic route over to Ipswich to see my old friend Andrew Vass who is unwell. I am getting to know the bike but the Navigator V GPS is beyond me at the moment and I am thwarted in its use. For a start it does not talk nicely to my ageing bluetooth earphones (new ones on order), so a typical instruction is, &#8216;at the roundabout [loud hiss]&#8217;. Second, it clearly has a polarised screen because when I put my polarising prescription sunglasses on, the screen instantly turns blank. To see anything on it I have to tilt my head through at least 45 degrees. Finally I don&#8217;t understand how Basecamp routes turn into anything you are obliged to follow on the GPS. At junctions it shows you any number of optional turnings simultaneously and even a BMW GS can&#8217;t go in more than one direction at a time.<\/p>\n<p>On the way back, I resorted to putting in the names of towns I remembered were on the route back and ended up with a beautiful sunny evening ride avoiding all main roads, absolutely ideal. The trip was 61 miles out and 59 coming back &#8211; strange. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.obliquepanic.com\/?attachment_id=1734\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1734\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.obliquepanic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-16-at-21.57.00-1024x687.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-05-16 at 21.57.00\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1734\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I attempted the scenic route over to Ipswich to see my old friend Andrew Vass who is unwell. I am getting to know the bike but the Navigator V GPS is beyond me at the moment and I am thwarted in its use. For a start it does not talk nicely to my ageing&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/biking\/the-back-roads-to-ipswich\/\" class=\"button\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The back roads to Ipswich<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}