Ride Reports
Devon DA Annual Dinner
Sat, 01 Dec 1979
This is an account of what happened at the Trecarn Hotel, Babbacombe, Torquay, on Saturday 1st December. Don’t worry, I shan’t write everything, the person might get embarrassed a...
Stoke Gabriel
Sun, 02 Dec 1979
Numbers were down for the afternoon run the day after the Dinner, with only five, and one of those a newcomer (Stuart). After a dull morning we did have some winter sunshine to li...
Venice (Cornworthy)
Sun, 09 Dec 1979
Stuart enjoyed the afternoon run enough to join us the next Sunday when the weather was anything but inviting – possibly the destination of “Venice” swayed the decision? The name ...
Dartmeet
Sun, 16 Dec 1979
The gods had it wrong again the next week when the idea was for us to go to Dartmeet, not the Dart come to meet us! It was so wet during the morning that very little arm twisting ...
Christmas Lunch Ride
Sun, 23 Dec 1979
'Twas cold, with plenty of patches of ice in the lanes on December 23rd, but nine people arrived on bikes and four (who shall be nameless) by car at the Ship Inn, Cockwood, for our...
Slapton Sands
Sun, 30 Dec 1979
The last run for the seventies (not our ages you fool) saw us sitting in the sunshine on Slapton beach for our picnic lunch and finding that the breeze was rather more chilling tha...
Paignton
Sun, 06 Jan 1980
No report available.
Stoke Gabriel
Sun, 06 Jan 1980
The New Year started quite well for the Section with good runs, good weather and good attendance, the January Afternoon Run finding 19 riders out to prove that December’s wet stuff...
Lustleigh Cleave
Sun, 13 Jan 1980
Sunshine was the order of the day for our Lustleigh Cleave run, though there were patches of ice to look out for in the lanes. The Marldon starters were augmented by the Buckfastl...
Curtisknowle
Sun, 20 Jan 1980
Bigger and better patches of ice, including one section where we could hardly walk up a hill, on our next run to Curtisknowle, which is near Gara Bridge. The ground however was no...
Holcombe Burnell
Sun, 27 Jan 1980
We used our only level road up the Teign Valley before finding some uphill going past Kingsford to work up an appetite for lunch at our destination of Holcombe Burnell on another s...
Denbury
Sun, 03 Feb 1980
Our Afternoon Run at the beginning of February was well and truly in the “monsoon season”. I didn’t think anyone else would be mad enough to venture out, but went up to Five Lanes...