Ride Reports
Spitchwick
Fri, 13 Sep 1985
Not the best date for a ride, but the group suffered no ill-effects on the way to Holne and New Bridge. Dayle had to be home by nine so after riding around the Common in the dark ...
Mamhead
Sun, 15 Sep 1985
A brief stop in Ashburton for ‘mountaineer’ Jon to buy lunch was followed by a dash to Gappah for our rendezvous with the few from Torbay sensible enough not to have taken part in ...
Ipplepen
Tue, 17 Sep 1985
Mark Hunt needed all ten gears on his new bike for this fast ride through Staverton and Broadhempston. At Ipplepen it was decided to continue to Compton Pool before turning back t...
Weekend ride
21 Sep–22 Sep 1985
Salcombe Youth Hostel 2
A cycle trip that goes exactly according to plan, with no unexpected incidents along the way, can sometimes make dull reading in a report. When things go wrong however the author has plenty of material with which to keep the reader entertained – at the expense of those poor unfortunates on whose sh...
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Holne
Fri, 27 Sep 1985
The last evening rider of the season called for something a little special, and the children's room at the Church House Inn, Holne provided that something. There was everything fr...
Fernworthy
Sun, 29 Sep 1985
Everyone met at Bovey as planned, including one or two unexpected individuals who had earlier discovered that Torbay’s ‘50’ was going to be in 3½ hours, not 4.
Thick fog, which ...
Annual General Meeting
Tue, 01 Oct 1985
A number of decisions were made at this lively meeting.
There will be two junior tours in 1986, to North Devon at Easter and Scotland in August.
A regular fortnightly social ...
Denbury
Sun, 06 Oct 1985
Only Michael braved the elements for the October afternoon ride. To his surprise there were six Torbay members waiting at the Denbury meeting point, including Steven Bowles on his...
Dartmeet
Sun, 13 Oct 1985
After struggling up to the moor via Holne and a track we made our first stop at Hangman’s Pit to collect the (very soggy) letterbox there. Combestone Tor yielded a second box, put...
Cycle Maintenance
Tue, 15 Oct 1985
If Luke thought he was going to get away with a re-greased bottom bracket and clean hands he was in for a shock: the gooey black stuff that must once have been grease required the ...
Haytor Tramway
Sun, 20 Oct 1985
When everyone had gathered at the Bickington pickup there were around nineteen cyclists milling around in their colourful garments. There was some confusion at Ilsington for those...
Prawle Point
Sun, 27 Oct 1985
This was definitely ‘one of those rides’. The day got off to a good start with a good turnout at Totnes, but things began to go wrong after lunch. We were at Chillington, and eve...