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The Devon TRF Group held a new event at the weekend, the Axe to Exe (A2E), which was 2-day of guided trail riding in the East Devon area offered to TRF members nationwide.

My brother Trev and I did some bike fettling on the previous Friday and then did a short trail ride. 

We stopped for occasional refreshment biggrin

Lunch at Smileys on practice day.jpg

I volunteered as a run leader for both days of the A2E and had Trev as my Tail End Charlie (TEC). We were joined on Saturday by my son Matt who rode a WR250R I happened to have lurking in the garage.

All looking good at the start of the day before we set off from my place.  Two TTRs and the WRR. Bob Lewis (far right) also joined us on his much modified OE.

Saturday morning - setting off.jpg

My Saturday group included Graham Prosser on his blue TTR. For some odd reason it wouldn't start and after about an hour of bump starting etc we had to leave him behind and get moving. Here is the group pic about an hour into the ride - quite a mix of bikes - mostly Yamaha. Dave Stone, 2nd from left, is a couple of weeks off his 80th birthday and rode his Serow expertly:

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It was at this point that Graham rang to say that he had got his TTR going and we arranged to meet him at an early lunch stop.

Matt took some pics of us crossing the River Coly which was very low as we are now in drought conditions (not!):

First Trev:

Trev crossing the River Coly.jpg

and then me

Brian crossing the River Coly.jpg

I had some problems with the power feed to my GPS so swapped bikes with Trev and rode his Open Enduro for the day. It isn't set up as well as my TTR325 which explains why it needed a rest later in the day. Caught on camera by my son Matt disbelief

Brians bike resting at Whitcombe.jpg

The day went went well even though some of the lanes were very washed out. This one had a large tree down which we had to struggle under:

Tree down across lane .jpg

All went well and I got the group back within seconds of the 6pm target return time biggrin

Sunday came around very quickly and I had a new group. 

Sunday group pic.jpg

A comfort stop near Membury:

Half way through Yarty.JPG

Trev crossing an old pack horse bridge:

Trev crossing pack horse bridge.JPG

99 miles - 64 lanes - 8 hrs in the saddle on the Saturday

73 miles - 65 lanes - 7hrs in the saddle on the Sunday

We were lucky with the weather and we had a great time.

I hope our paying guests enjoyed it as much wink

It is likely that the evet will be repeated in 2014 and it would be nice to see a few more TTRs there.

Brian



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Looks to have been very energetic and enjoyable.laughing.gif

I looked enviously at your snack stops - pasties, I hear, were in short supply. hungry.gif

You had good weather sun.gif (both days) and cheerful groups which are an asset to have in Devon. w00t.gifworship.gif

Martyn



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The weather and the guys (and gal!) in the groups made it for me biggrin

BTW, I wasn't the only TTR rider to bite the dust - see below:



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