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Thought I would ask if anyone is interested in a ride out in Devonconfuse 

Ride now confirmed

We will be starting at Castle Brake in Woodbury EX5 1HA. On the Saturday 16th August

This is a green laning ride out.

9am Start

4pm Finish (approx.)

There is plenty of camping at castle brake, if anyone is coming from further away. 

The ride would be suitable for novices willing to have a go ( a couple of gnarly lanes ), intermediate and above riders, the ride will be at a steady pace.

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Good luck with the vince matey!

A bit of more detail about the ride

This is a run that I have done once before and is probably one of the best day's ride I have had, that is why I am doing it againsmilesmile

Lot's of different lanes and not to much tarmac in-between, some nice rocky lanes, good climbs and descents. Fantastic views and we will be stopping at beer for lunch, very nice place by the sea! Nice river crossing somewhere confuseconfuse lanes through woods etc etc. Like I say a great day's ride with all types of terrain.

 Would love to see lot's of ttr's.

Suitable for all but beginners.

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What a great day that would be, would love to try out the fabled Devon Lanes. Unfortunately, I've only had the TTR for 3 months and although I've put about 700 miles on her around Surrey Hills & Hindhead I'm probably not ready to ride out with the experts yet! Will need to sort out a trailer etc if/when I'm ready to move on to 'Devon Narlies'! Have a great day chaps - hope the weather's good for you (but loads of the slippery stuff too)!

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Just got home, what a great day, lovley lanes and meeting a few new faces. Can't wait till the next one!

Was even a puncture repair masterclass, first how not to do it followed by a perfect tube changebiggrin



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Thanks for leading a cracking day out Steve
was nice to meet a few faces from the forum i will sort out the video footage i have an post up some of it over the next day or two
an hears video of the Enfield i built a year or two back for them that looked like they like them. i cant remember who was on about fixing the buggered rear hub post up a pic should think i will be able to fix it

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Great day out on the East Devon lanes in a group of 6 TTR250s, one white (run leader Steve's) and five blue hence the name of the ride - White Leader and the Blue Swarm biggrin

The weather was perfect, dry and cloudy. The cloud kept the temperature down nicely. A bonus was some heavy downpours during the week which meant no dust and some nice grippy conditions.

Great day out with excellent company. Many thanks to Steve for organising the ride smile

Fortunately Steve got the only puncture of the day and it was in the carpark before we had set off so everything was nice and clean and tools readily to hand.

I was TEC (Tail End Charlie) so didn't get many pics once we had set off. These are all that I have - mostly from the car park including Steve's tube changing episode.

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Here the lane was blocked by fallen branches which were quickly cleared. A more substantial blockage later in the day needed handsaws and all hands to the job.

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The next three photos were taken at what we call The Viewpoint (for obvious reasons) with Sidmouth in the background.

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My last pic was taken atop Mutters Moor just before the lane descends through the middle of Sidmouth Golf Course.

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What a lovely day you had for your run , pity I had a 12yr old grand-daughter's birthday party to attend. cry

It wouldn't have been Steve's run without something happening and the puncture fitted the bill perfectly.

I look forward to further pictures.

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I see a lot of GoPros in some of those snaps, we gonna see a Youtube version of events? :)



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What a great day. knackered when I got home. Thanks Steve, great route. Thanks all, for the jokes and banter. That's what its all about. Good pics, Brian.
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White leader reporting inbiggrin

After a bad start, my puncturecry like martyn said it would not be my ride if there was not some sort of dramabiggrinbiggrin

The blue swarm performed really well, though there was some reports of a few badgers biting some of the formation in the lanes and I was witness to a full on del boy at the top of passaford lane, will keep the pilots name a secret to stop further embarrassmentwink Shame I was up front not to witness the carnage behind, though I do hope there is some video evidence!

We took in many good lanes and stopped for much needed food stop at beersmilesmile After pilots had re fuelled we set of for some more lanes, nice river crossing at rats hole and some really stony/rocky climbs that I love up pinhill and east hill strips ACEsmilesmile

Tech stuff...

79 miles

45 green lanes

7 hours and 51 minutes

Average speed 10mph... max speed 66.7mph 

6 riders

Personally I had a great time. Riding my bike for a whole day in great company! How good is that!

Steve

Video footage (to follow) of the rats hole river crossing and the not so deepish rut at holeston, shame someone has filled it in a bitcry

 



-- Edited by ttr steve on Monday 18th of August 2014 05:25:27 PM



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Glad it all went well and gutted I couldn't make it. Will keep an eye on the forum for the next one! You Devon chaps are spoilt rotten if that pic with the sea backdrop is actually on a Byway.

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Pinman wrote:

You Devon chaps are spoilt rotten if that pic with the sea backdrop is actually on a Byway.

It's actually on a dead-end UCR. The cliff that carried the road collapsed many years ago and created two dead-end UCRs now linked by a lovely footpath.

The old map below shows where the UCR used to run between the arrows:

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Thanks all for a great day out. Specially Steve and Brian for leading and TECing respectively.

Sorry to have to bail a bit early sounds like the last few lanes were fun. I was only 10 mins late home so wasn't too far in the doghouse!

I'll take a look at some of the footage I got on the GoPro and try to get something up, might take a few days as I'm away for work for a couple of them this week.

Look forwards to the next one.

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check out the video of the not so deepish rut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irDwsGX_3E0&feature=youtu.be

Will post another soon biggrin



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Nice one Steve - more please!  biggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrin



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River crossing at rats hole. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48bRJQUJop0&feature=youtu.be

And no one went trout tickling biggrinbiggrin

That's all the video I havesmile More from others pleasesmile



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Great stuff Steve. I'm in Paris at the moment but I'll try to put together a little compilation when I'm back later in the week.

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If only it was that glamorous. Unfortunately it's just taking time away from video editing and fettling with the bikes!

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first two parts up to the view point just the no Tarmack bit's i'm not the go to man with video editing





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Smashing videos, thanks Pug.

You were enjoying my back yard - lovely lanes but a bit wetter than I really like.

It's amazing how they change so dramatically with the seasons.

Any more vids? confuse

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Glad to see some videos from other parts of the world, the Green Lanes are a little different to what I ride here in Australia.
Keep them coming guys I love seeing how & what others ride

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Thanks for putting the vids on here martyn, interestingly the last bit of the last vid, is to view point, what you all did not know is that the roots of all evil run along this lane and we done well to get all riders up and down this lane with no incidents!!! There has been many a broken bone on this lane.

The lanes look so overgrown in the vids! Lush and green, which made them interestingsmile

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No the Enfield had to go to fund the next build I have had an built a lot of bikes an trikes the only keeper's I have is a harley panhead an a xl 250 in bit's that I have had for 35 years. use to ride the lanes in the late 70's an the xl was my dad's bike I had the smaller xl185 at the time.

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2nd two Video’s from the day out an like i said i’m not the best at editing this stuff if anyone on the run wants the full 6 hour’s of it on a dvd  i will pass it on to you biggrinbiggrin



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Thanks for posting up the videos Martyn. I appreciate the effort going through and editing 6 hours of video!

A nice reminder of our lovely East Devon lanes and a great day out biggrinbiggrinbiggrin

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Here's a compilation of a few bits and bobs from Saturday's ride out.  It's been a while since I did any editing and my gad it takes a long time to upload the finished video to You tube!!

When I get some more time I'll go through the other memory card from later on in the ride and do a part 2.

Enjoy.

 

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3nd two Video’s from the day out an like i said i’m not the best at editing this stuff if anyone on the run wants the full 6 hour’s of it on a dvd i will pass it on to you biggrinbiggrin





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Well done for the vid, nothing embarrassing about having a lay down on passaford lanewinkwink 

Looking forward to the next instalment smilesmile

Love my speech at the beginning, just goes to show.... you can take the boy out of Essex, but you can't take Essex out of the boybiggrinbiggrinbiggrin



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Thanks for all the videos, Pug.

Watching them and imagining that I was riding along with you all, it's smashing fun.

But, by the time I've watched all the six hours I think my bums going to be sore with all the pillion riding I'm doing. hmm

Keep them coming, please.

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... and I have a sore neck from ducking away from all the overhanging branches on the vids no



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Great videos, thanks for sharing the fun. Some very narrow lanes there where the badgers can take bites out you! Got to watch out for those horizontal tree trunks trying to take yer legs off!

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Could anyone who was on the run and is a trf member, please give me their membership number for a run report.

Many thanks

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Hi Steve , I am a member!! I left my card in my work van so will post my membership no. On Tuesday.

Am feeling sad as I have knackered my back and on the way to the back crack doctor my head gasket blew @&@@@!!!

Just bloody glad it didn't go on the day of the SWARM. Ha ha ( soz for shouting)

Nice to see the vids

Pug it was me talking about the hub, it is with a friend at the mo, I will pick it up and get you a photo of it.



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Hi Steve , I am a member!! I left my card in my work van so will post my membership no. On Tuesday.

Am feeling sad as I have knackered my back and on the way to the back crack doctor my head gasket blew @&@@@!!!

Just bloody glad it didn't go on the day of the SWARM. Ha ha ( soz for shouting)

Nice to see the vids

Pug it was me talking about the hub, it is with a friend at the mo, I will pick it up and get you a photo of it.

John Leah will know the number if you let Steve have your name and address for the run record James.

Sorry to hear about your back and head gasket - hope both will be cured quickly!

Thanks for posting up the pics - nice to see one of us got a shot of our lunch stop at Beer Beach biggrin

Your hub is safely tucked away in my garage wink

Do you need a pic Martyn?  

I think Steve was also interested in some machining on a hub that he has?

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yes Brian if you have a pic or two of it up close does it look like there is meat enough to machine out an put a 1-2 mm ring of phosphor bronze in to get it back to the bearing size

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