Ride Reports
Ringmore
Sun, 27 Apr 1980
Today’s ride began with nine riders meeting at Totnes in beautiful weather. We pedalled through the lanes to Harbertonford, where Martin fixed a puncture, and carried on through W...
Broadhempston
Sun, 04 May 1980
The weather for our May Afternoon Ride was magnificent, and Colin, Martin and Sue met a new Buckfastleigh lad, Russell Billings, and I at Marldon. We decided to meander through th...
Fingle Bridge
Sun, 11 May 1980
We congregated at Bovey Tracey on a fine day. The ten of us (five from Torbay, five from Ashburton area) rode along the main road to Moretonhampstead. From there we meandered thr...
Devon DA BCTC Heat, Higher Ashton
Sun, 18 May 1980
The BCTC heat at Higher Ashton went very well indeed with a morning of questions and general exercises and a more difficult afternoon of map reading. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed t...
Harford
Sun, 25 May 1980
Our Day Run to Harford never really got off the ground. The Downie family plus Antony, Iris Buckler and myself met at Avonwick at eleven o’clock and waited for about half an hour. ...
Denbury
Sun, 01 Jun 1980
We were very pleased to have Frank back with us again for our Denbury Afternoon Run. Seven of us met at Marldon and we wandered along to Afton, where we took the country lanes thr...
Weekend ride
07 Jun–08 Jun 1980
Beer Youth Hostel 2
Three of us set off from Buckfastleigh at 9am on a dark, dull morning. Through Ashburton to Chudleigh, making very good time until we commenced the climb to Ashcombe half-way up Haldon. Then the rain that had been threatening suddenly came down. Luckily we were amongst the trees so sheltered for ...
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Woodbury Common
Sun, 08 Jun 1980
Only three of us out on the day run to Woodbury, with a plan to meet the Beer Hostel contingent near Budleigh – and we would have done so if the Starcross Ferry hadn’t been a quart...
East Prawle
Sun, 15 Jun 1980
Only three out today, possibly because the sky was the colour of a tramp’s billycan and there was a certain amount of precipitation. We used familiar lanes from Totnes to Moreleig...
Kingsand
Sun, 22 Jun 1980
We couldn’t fool the Weather Gods by putting in a run to Kingsand instead of Cawsand – it still poured with rain, and after a particularly vicious downpour we sheltered under the A...
Wistman's Wood
Sun, 29 Jun 1980
A few of the “Bridport” group were on a sponsored End to End trip so I Was not surprised that we were only four heading for Wistman’s Wood today. The road from Buckfast to Holme a...
West Ogwell
Sun, 06 Jul 1980
The lads still on the “End to End”, we were half a dozen on the July afternoon run which, in spite of a wet morning, gave us a dry ride through the lanes between West Ogwell and St...