Ash’s brother Liam joined us this evening for his first ride with the club, using the club bike. We took the old road to Ashburton, followed the lane out to Belford Mill and then joined our usual woodland track back towards Ashburton. Today, however, we were in for a shock as the whole first section of the wood (all the coniferous trees) had been felled since our last visit. The area looked barren and bleak so we were glad to get past the rough section and re-join the unspoiled deciduous track further down.

To extend the ride a bit we headed across to Holne Bridge and then tackled Holne Chase in the upward direction. This all got a bit much for Callum who ran out of energy a third of the way up, but eventually we reached the top and returned via Hembury Hill for 9.30. Congratulations to Liam for doing so well.

We rounded off the evening with some games until 10.10.