Ride Reports
Whooping Rock
Sun, 16 Sep 1979
A lot more sunshine for our trip to Whooping Rock, and numbers just into double figures – half from Torbay and half from Buckfastleigh area who met us at Bickington. We had a stea...
Cawsand
Sun, 23 Sep 1979
We’ve already decided not to mention “Bathing Runs” and it looks as though we’ll have to abandon “Cawsand” as a runs destination if we are to placate the weather gods. Ignoring th...
101 km Rides
Sun, 30 Sep 1979
A very good turnout for the “101” rides, when eight completed the 101 mile ride and a further eight the 101 kilometres. One of those completing the 101 miles was Frank Boyes who, ...
Dawlish
Sun, 07 Oct 1979
To add insult to injury we invaded Don and Grace again on the afternoon run at the beginning of October. Not too sure how many would be there when I turned up after being up to Br...
Torbay Section AGM
Thu, 11 Oct 1979
At the Section AGM it was decided that our present formula appeared to be working quite well and should be continued. So, for the coming year, we have a Secretary (Sue Shepley) bu...
Exeter Maritime Museum
Sun, 14 Oct 1979
A good day for our trip to the Maritime Museum today, with plenty of sunshine, though when we got to the establishment and found the price of admission £1.20 there was no great rus...
Weekend ride
20 Oct–21 Oct 1979
Salcombe YH 2
A large contingent of Section members congregated at Totnes on October 20th for a ride to Salcombe YH for the “Harvest Supper” weekend. Bright sunshine lit up the autumn leaves for us as we followed a lane route past Moreleigh and Woodleigh to Churchstow, where most of us has a rest while Don dealt...
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Dittisham
Sun, 28 Oct 1979
By general consensus we decided to cancel our run to Dittisham on October 28th in order to see what was happening at the National Hill Climb at Haytor. The event was very well org...
Ashburton
Sun, 04 Nov 1979
Double figures again for our November afternoon run, even if the weather was not too certain. In the event it stayed dry while we wandered through lanes nearly to Ashburton before...
Castle Drogo
Sun, 11 Nov 1979
Castle Drogo was the destination put in for our first day run in November, the first snag with the proposed visit being that the place was closed for repair work. On the day there...
DA AGM Chudleigh Knighton
Sun, 18 Nov 1979
Our luck was better on the AGM day, and we managed to dodge the showers and find sunshine up by the Teignmouth golf course before dropping down through Gappah to Chudleigh Knighton...
Spurrells Cross
Sun, 25 Nov 1979
Luck held again for a run to Spurrells Cross, even though the forecast was rather like that of the Drogo day. Numbers were also a repeat, though not quite the same eleven, but inc...