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TTRfan · Super Guru

A morning bimble out Tiverton way - with mud!

peteBLUEttr · Super Guru

Great lanes. You looked very thrifty across that slatey river bed Brian! biggrin

Trev McRev · Member

An excellent day of trail riding, those Tiverton lanes are just what a TTR needed
Could not have asked for better weather in April, spot on!
Plus the TTR came home intact, just needed a wash and fuel and she is ready for the next Devon adventure smile

pug · Guru

Home ground Brian have not been up Dandy lane this year if you think it's bad now try it in the wet of winter Shure to give you a sweat on. we got a few more miles between the lanes up this way but they are worth it 192-015 Bickleigh and 192-033 close to Silverton love the long climbs up them. my number one is 191-007 Poughill or watery lane as we call it up this way best run in winter after a good fall of rain you need a foot of water on it to see it at it's best the wet climb up the end of that can see many a to twitchy throttle KTM slide back down as the TTR thump's on past them

Martyn

TTRfan · Super Guru

Dandy Lane was on my route to ride uphill on the way home but we gave that a miss!

The lane density wasn't great today - 26 lanes in 68 miles - but worth the effort.

We rode 192-015 uphill - one of my favourite lanes - and it seemed easier than the last time I rode it but you need to save some energy for the last 20 yards as it has a sting in the tail.

We also rode 192-033 which is where we took the pic of the two TTRs "resting". Cracking lane - lovely long climb that seems to go on and on biggrin

191-007 is where we shot the stream video - hardly any water in there today. I confess that I made it look harder than it was disbelief

There are a couple of nice technical bits in 192-001 which is worth going out your way for wink

Brian

pug · Guru

You want to come up this way more often best bit of living in mid Devon is I can go in any direction from home base.

Martyn

TTRfan · Super Guru

Trev kindly power washed my TTR whilst I made him a cuppa when we returned to base yesterday and I took her for a run later to fully dry her out, particularly the chain. My old bones were aching today so I did a bit of fettling. LH indicator and heated grips had packed up so they were first on the list. Both were simple breaks in wires so soon mended plus I fitted a new rocker switch to the heated grips as the old one was a bit notchy.

After a run to the Post Office with today's parcels, I changed the oil and filter. Although I hadn't done a high mileage since the last change, the gear change was getting a bit stiff which is my signal to change the oil to get it back into silky smooth action wink

So its all ready for the next adventure!

Brian

locky · Guru

They look great lanes, you have no shortage of them in Devon thats for sure.

ttboof · Super Guru

looks great i like that you can stop.off have a drink and a feed and keep on riding .linking great lanes together . The thing I find hard to fathom is those tracks were probably in use well before good old Australia was even heard of . Is that why so many are well below the surounding land from years of use

might be hard to believe but in my local forest i have only come across other bikes or people seven times in.the last thirty four years dont have to share

-- Edited by ttboof on Tuesday 21st of April 2015 11:58:02 AM

pug · Guru

Lot's of the Green Lanes as we call them are old roads track's right's of way that have been in use for hundreds of years for country people to move livestock an get around with out stepping on His Lordships Land sort of thing. some are Roman roads and as you said over the years some have become sunken lanes some are down to bed rock. lot's had a coat of the black top when car's where invented. we have lanes down hear that have lost the black top and gone back to how they use to be. they are trying to nick them back as foot path's and bridle ways from us all the time so we have to fight to keep them by using them and having proof that we use them and putting up a fight for each one they try and take.

Pug

peteBLUEttr · Super Guru

7 in 34 years!! Blimey.

TTRfan · Super Guru

Here is a video of a new member doing really well (seriously - its a bl**dy hard lane) on the Devil's Steps down in South Devon - just to give an idea as to what else to expect in Devon wink

Bad language warning on this one

Best viewed on YouTube full screen biggrin

peteBLUEttr · Super Guru

That does look a struggle!!

pug · Guru

That is one of them lanes I got there late one afternoon and a days riding its fearsome reputation had been read on the TRF map overlay's a number of times. I was on me tod so had a walk up from the bottom to about half way I fell over two times said the fu**ing hell no way jose'. but am not one to give up so went round to the top and came down it feet an leg's flailing like a bush whacker till I made it out the bottom. I will be back one day..................

Pug