Another new youngster, Ben Wyeth, joined us for the climb through Buckfast to Scoriton and Michelcombe. His gearless BMX bike was a little hard for climbing the hills, but he managed very well and was soon joining the others rolling tyres in Holne park.

The off-road was the bit Daniel had been waiting for, and he wasn't at all disappointed with the long winding woodland track leading down to River Dart Country Park. There was a little mud at the end, but that just made it even more fun from Daniel's point of view. The ride finished with the riverside track from the park back to Hembury Woods, along which Jamie had to take out his car foot-pump three times to re-inflate his tyre. After the ride we discovered that the puncture was caused by another enormous thorn from the 26 January ride - which increases the puncture count for that ride to seven!