Can you cycle from Marldon to Bovey Tracey in 45 minutes? We can't. Which is just one reason why we all finally met up at midday rather than 11.00am (Dave and Lorraine's detour is another story!)

All hope of getting to Cranbrook was abandoned and so we had lunch in Julie's minibus before setting off for a very leisurely jaunt to the tea rooms at Lustleigh. There we met up with the Hunts who were passing by and decided to join us.

Eventually we set off with a strange mixture of pavement cycle (Joanne Hunt), Rann Trailer, Tandem/Swann trailer/Baby seat, cycle and child seat, mountain bikes, hybrid bike and even a couple of ordinary tourers! What the great British public on their Sunday outing must have thought I really don't know. However, they must have been impressed if the number of photo calls we had is anything to go by.

We returned to Bovey Tracey and bid our farewells after possibly the shortest ever dry weather day ride in our history.