Ride Reports
Shobrooke Park
Sun, 13 Jul 1980
Six of us met under the shelter of some trees at Chudleigh Bridge on a distinctly miserable Sunday morning. Michael, Colin Downie (back from his end to end ride) and I cycled out ...
Grimspound
Sun, 20 Jul 1980
Despite the fact that weather conditions today were not unlike those of the previous Sunday, numbers were increased by one on our Grimspound ride. Michael, Peter, Antony and I cyc...
Bantham
Sun, 27 Jul 1980
Our ride to Bantham began at Totnes on a sunny, fairly warm morning. Despite back wheel troubles, Michael rode in from Buckfastleigh along with Antony, John Pope, Kevin and myself...
Ashprington
Sun, 03 Aug 1980
Double figures turned out for our August Afternoon Ride, and we had with us a new lad, Brian Marks. Having made our way along to Totnes we joined a track at Sharpham Drive which t...
Petre's Cross
Sun, 10 Aug 1980
Petre’s Cross is several miles into the moor, up the old mineral railway track from Bittaford, and on being warned of this fact Frank had no hesitation in saying he’d meet us at te...
Killerton
Sun, 17 Aug 1980
Numbers were down for the run to Killerton today – maybe a picnic tea didn’t appeal after the “milk and honey” of the previous week, but really I think it had more to do with Micha...
Tour
23 Aug–27 Aug 1980
South Wales 5
Some of the younger Torbay members thought it would be a good idea to organise our own tour this year, keeping distances down to around 35 miles per day. Five of us got together at Christmas last year to plan the holiday and the following account relates the result.
At the crack of dawn on Satur...
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Beesands
Sun, 24 Aug 1980
We had a marvellous ride on the 24th August, the destination being Beesands. Don and Mark turned up at Totnes to meet John, Kevin and myself on a hot and sunny morning. We wander...
Blackingstone Rock
Sun, 31 Aug 1980
We had another superb ride on the last day in August. Michael arrived with Nigel Wilson, out for the first time from Buckfastleigh, and we were soon greeted by Kevin and John. We...
Stover Lake
Sun, 07 Sep 1980
Nigel Wilson enjoyed last week’s ride very much indeed, and he joined us again for the September afternoon ride which had a total of thirteen riders meeting at Marldon, including a...
Pool Mill, Noss Mayo
Sun, 14 Sep 1980
Twelve riders met at Avonwick today (3 from Marldon and 9 from Buckfastleigh), including Valerie on her brand new steed and Colin, back from his holiday. We did plenty of main roa...
Fernworthy Reservoir
Sun, 21 Sep 1980
The watery destination of Fernworthy reservoir seemed rather a poor reason for the weather to be quite so cruel to us today – torrential rain up until 11:00 kept numbers down to si...