Ride Reports
North Huish
Sun, 21 Nov 1993
Weather conditions today were distinctly wintry rather than autumnal. The ride took us through Rattery and Diptford and up a steep hill to a gateway which overlooked the village o...
Ringmore
Sun, 28 Nov 1993
Only Tao and Michael appeared at the Buckfastleigh start, so Michael had the bright idea of driving to the Avonwick pick-up in his car (the weather wasn’t really too pleasant). Wh...
Rising Sun Tea-rooms
Sun, 05 Dec 1993
The new tea-rooms at Woodland made an excellent destination for today’s ride. Ken, Charlie and Andy arrived in advance of the Buckfastleigh contingent and had already started on t...
Bridford
Sun, 12 Dec 1993
The torrential rain ensured that nobody ventured out for today’s ride.
Pre-Christmas Social
Fri, 17 Dec 1993
Lorraine had prepared a superb range of home-baked food for us. Charlie showed us his piranha fish and some video scenes from his recent trip to the USA. There was then time for ...
Christmas Lunch
Sun, 19 Dec 1993
Some members decided that the weather was just too miserable to contemplate cycling to Ilsington for our annual Christmas Lunch ride, preferring instead to rely on motorised transp...
Littlehempston
Mon, 27 Dec 1993
This weather was perfect for this special Boxing Day morning ride. The route was straightforward, taking us along the riverside path at Staverton and homeward through Broadhempsto...
Christmas Social
Wed, 29 Dec 1993
Risk, hot vegetarian mince pies, computer games and some video presentations made this a thoroughly enjoyable social to conclude the Christmas festivities.
Spitchwick
Sun, 02 Jan 1994
Ian Luke, winner of our junior attendance trophy several years ago, emerged from a long hibernation to swell numbers for our afternoon ride to Spitchwick, the first ride of the new...
Slapton Sands
Sun, 09 Jan 1994
We’d all heard the forecast, so the first decision we made was to go to the cafe at Totnes for a drink. During our stay there Michael produced a map showing two cycle routes in th...
Give Us A Clue
Fri, 14 Jan 1994
The evening was a reasonable success, as usual. Paul’s flying impression of Batman stole the show.
Avon Dam
Sun, 16 Jan 1994
Gavin Taylor, from Buckfastleigh, planned to follow us across the moor with his friend, keeping at a discrete distance, but he didn’t reckon on needing an allen key to tighten his ...