Ride Reports
Spitchwick
Fri, 09 Apr 1993
This was a perfect evening for Hembury Woods and Dartmoor. There was nobody else around at Spitchwick so the youngsters rode around on the grassy heath, dipping an occasional whee...
Easter Special
Sun, 11 Apr 1993
The only special thing about today's ride was the weather - specially miserable! We braved the elements as far as Gidley Bridge and then returned speedily to Crofters for an indoo...
Tour
12 Apr–15 Apr 1993
Cornish Coast 4
Dates for the 1993 junior tour to the Cornish Coast were chosen to coincide with school holidays in Devon, but unfortunately children in most other parts of the country had to return to school much earlier. The result was that we only received applications from two London boys, Clyde Fare and Jorda...
👥 4
93 miles
Staverton
Fri, 16 Apr 1993
This ride turned into a repeat of the first evening ride, except that we missed out Landscove and it was Chris who fell into the nettles on the track descent to Pridhamsleigh inste...
Graetor Village
Sun, 18 Apr 1993
Seb left home very late this morning but he still managed to get to Bickington, totally out of breath, as we were climbing the hill to Haytor. The explanation for this unusual st...
Dean Hill
Fri, 23 Apr 1993
Richard Burge led this short ride to the Shipley Bridge area since Michael was occupied at Plymouth's Theatre Royal.
Curtisknowle
Sun, 25 Apr 1993
From the Avonwick pick-up we rode along the river Avon to Diptford, descended the track from Curtisknowle and enjoyed lunch in the woods by the riverside. Tom was most envious of ...
Venford Reservoir
Fri, 30 Apr 1993
Having spent an hour or so climbing up to the reservoir, we took our usual track across the moor, struggling through the gorse until we found the path to Michelcombe. It is a stee...
Old Forge, Holne
Sun, 02 May 1993
Seb, Ben and Tom joined Michael and Neil for this afternoon jaunt to the famous cafe on the moor. We returned via Hembury Woods where Michael recorded some moving pictures of Seb ...
Avon Dam
Fri, 07 May 1993
This is one ride that we'll never forget. There is a walkway running along the top of the dam with a shoulder-high wall on either side. As usual, some of the youngsters walked al...
Lustleigh Cleave
Sun, 09 May 1993
We couldn't work out why Dave Robinson wasn't out today, given the opportunity to visit the Primrose cafe and see how the new owners were looking after it's reputation. We quickly...
Holne
Fri, 14 May 1993
Our special dispensation from the management of River Dart Country Park is still effective, so we rode through the grounds, stopping momentarily to try out the new tubular slide ad...