Ride Reports
Belford Mill
Fri, 10 Jun 2011
Our ride this evening took us along the old road to Ashburton, along the path past the park, up to Belford Mill and down the woodland track to Ashburton again. Jerry had never bee...
Converted to Social
Sun, 12 Jun 2011
It rained heavily all day today – the first real rain we have had for ages, and just in the nick of time as apparently the South West region is on the verge of a drought.
We org...
Converted to Social
Fri, 17 Jun 2011
The rain was supposed to stop between 6.30 and 7.30, but it didn’t so we ended up playing games at Crofters all evening.
Staverton
Sun, 19 Jun 2011
Zac was having problems persuading his boss not to make him work on Sundays, but the rest of us rode along Colston Road to Staverton where we arrived at the station just as a steam...
Converted to Social
Fri, 24 Jun 2011
With rain continuing all evening we changed the ride to a games social, and for the most part spent the evening on the PCs. Unbeknown to Michael three of the lads popped out to us...
Holne
Sun, 26 Jun 2011
12 mi
Today was a one-day heatwave, but Jack had to leave by 2pm so we contented ourselves with a ride through Buckfast and Michelcombe to Holne play park where we spent some time playin...
Skerraton Down
Fri, 01 Jul 2011
Callum O’Brien was back on his old bike today as his new one had a broken derailleur. He was slow for the first part of the climb past Nurston but then seemed to find some new gea...
Ayrmer Cove
Sun, 03 Jul 2011
15 mi
Today’s ride turned out to be especially good fun for everyone who took part. We parked the car on the road just beyond California Cross on a hot and sunny morning and rode the sh...
Hembury Woods
Fri, 08 Jul 2011
The dry forecast turned out to be incorrect this evening, so we arranged a shorter ride around Hembury. Once the few who had temporarily abandoned us at The Orchard had met up wit...
Fermoy's Garden Centre
Sun, 10 Jul 2011
19 mi
On a cloudy but dry morning we had a good turnout and, happily, everyone seemed up for a slightly longer ride today. We rode through Caddaford and arrived at Staverton Station jus...
Converted to Social
Fri, 15 Jul 2011
The forecast this evening was for occasional spells of light rain, and since it was dark, gloomy and drizzling at seven o’clock it didn’t take us long to decide on running a social...
South Brent
Sun, 17 Jul 2011
The unsettled weather continued today with a forecast of showers, so we settled on a morning-only ride in the Dean direction. Callum O’B was for some reason unhappy about the hill...