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Devon TRF Group is hosting its annual trail riding event (the Axe to Exe) in a couple of weekend's time and I am likely to be called upon to guide a group of visitors along with my brother Trev who will be my TEC (Tail End Charlie).

Trev hasn't been out on the lanes since our trail riding trip to France last June and my last outing was at the beginning of December so we thought we had better get some practice in!

By a nice coincidence a friend who hasn't ridden locally for two years invited us to join him so it was game on! I managed to get together all my riding clobber except for my neck warmer and had to use a tube thing which was a poor substitute. I ride with the neck warmer throughout the year not to keep warm but to stop brambles from taking chunks out of my neck. The warmer bears ragged witness to its effectiveness!

I still have quite a lot of work left on my TTR325 rebuild so had to pull out my spare bike - please forgive me  cry 

Ready for the off, me posing behind my WR250R and my brothers TTR250 in the foreground.

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We have a great selection of lanes close to home and were able to ride 62 different lanes in the 66 miles we rode biggrin  

We interrupted our ride to check on progress on repairing a washed out ford and found only the organiser, his dad and one other member there so stopped for a couple of hours to help out.

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It was a beautiful day to be out and about in the warm sunshine. Lots of daffodils still out along with primroses, wild garlic and some bluebells in the sunnier banks.

There was still a lot of standing water and signs of fallen trees and washouts following Storm Katy's attack last weekend and we found one of our lanes blocked by a fallen tree. It was soon cleared enough for us to get through following some enthusiastic use of a couple of pruning saws - an essential part of every trail rider's kit!

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Lots of fords on the route but mostly small 'uns.

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There is quite a big drop on one of the lanes near Ladram Bay. Here is a photo of a nervous Trev ready to descend with the sea in the background.

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A muddy patch in the same lane. There was no way we were going to get to the lunch stop with clean bikes and boots!

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One of our lanes (The Viewpoint) offers lovely views across to Sidmouth and further up the coast to Lyme Bay.

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Although most of our Devon lanes are correctly sign posted following years of being "persistent" with Devon County Council there are still a few that aren't. Here is a County Road or UCR signed as a Footpath no

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All this led to a well-deserved lunch at Ducky's cafe on Beer Beach. Crab sandwiches (instead of my usual pasty) for me! The crabs are landed here and cooked in a shed just off the beach so my sandwich filling hasn't travelled far.

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Handy to be able to park behind the cafe owner's Beemer just off the beach and lovely views up the coast.

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Great day out, excellent company, just how it should be biggrin

Brian



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Sorry guys. Have been off the internet for most of the evening and only just got back on. Took ages and a lot of moving kit around and running wires between telephone sockets until I found the innards of one of the phone line connectors had corroded and a very important sprung wire had broken off no

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Bit of stripping and twisting wires together seems to have fixed it for the time being biggrin

Anyways up, can you see the photos now?

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That fixed it looks like you had a cracking day out will have to go that way next time we go out

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That's more like itsmile nice photos, good you caught wacky workingwink

Nice group to go out with, good to see Roger out on his bike.smile



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Couple of short videos of Ratash Ford crossing. River low so no dramas today!



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Looks like you had fun.

Good weather wasn't it. I like it down at Beer, and I like Duckys! The sun full on beams off them tables doesn't it!

Great piccys and vids.

You swapped that troublesome Jag in for a Renault Brian?!

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Perfect day for a trail ride.

I would have preferred it if Ducky's had their umbrellas up over the tables - a bit glary otherwise as you say.

Didn't get home until after 7pm and it was getting chilly by then.

The Jag is all fully sorted and running like a dream - had to do a bit of work for the MOT but no more than to be expected for a 14 year old car. The Renault Megane Scenic (confusing name!) is a replacement for our Bongo. Well - it tries to replace it but fails on many counts. The Bongo was a much more versatile and useful vehicle than perhaps we realised.

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