Nice one stu. Do you think i could try one of your many fatbikes if we meet up?
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yunki and trailmonkey's excellent adventure (lots of pics 'n' stuff)
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Posted 10 months ago #
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I might have trouble getting the fatbike in the car along with all my work stuff.
You're more than welcome to have a go if you're in the west mids at any time though.
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I can imagine that could be an issue. To be honest i only ever pass through when going to the west country, but i might make an effort to get down to the FoD at some point this summer.
Posted 10 months ago # -
Tidy day fellahs!
where did you start from?
Im in exeter, and have wondered more than once if "a dartmoor ride" is do-able from home.
i too would be interested in a tagalong ride, but am away till the back end of july touring, so wont want to even look at a bike till mid august i imagine. (that or be monsterously fit)
Posted 10 months ago # -
sambob.
You're from the Peak kind of area aren't you? ( I think we may have met on a peaks pootle)
If you are next time i'm up that way i'll bring it with me.
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Yep, in Whaley Bridge. About 10 mins ride from the meeting point of that pootle.
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@olly, i started the ride in denbury and yunki started in liverton, with a meeting point at bovey.
no reason why not to start from exeter.
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yeah, if you did it right you could get in a quick 500m of climbing before you get anywhere near the moor.
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i think you'd have to go via morton' to avoid that sort of leg work.
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OLLY, im in Exeter and also thinking of trying to fix up dartmoor ride without car if your interested? Also thinking of getting a bivvy/ride in at some point later in the year wife/kids/work permitting!
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trailmonkey - Member
@olly, i started the ride in denbury and yunki started in liverton, with a meeting point at bovey.
Weird. I used to live near Denbury (in 88, at a place called Kellinch Farm - they'd rent out their holiday cottages to students during the winter) and a year or two later actually in Liverton.
After I moved back to Wales I bought my first MTB and joined a club. One of the guys who rode for the club had dated the daughter of the landlord of the Union in Denbury when they were in uni in another part of the country, iirc. A small world.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to a week's holiday in Devon. I'll be able to do the boring father bit ('Look kids, this is where I used to live. Look kids, this is where we used to drink too much beer. Look kids, this is where we.....ad infinitum) And an added bonus is that I'm bringing a bike!!
From memory, I'd think that riding from Bovey up onto the moors is pretty straightforward, if steep, but finding decent ridable stuff is more difficult?
Posted 10 months ago # -
easy once you know where to look
yes it can be tricky, especially with the bracken covering the trails. we're finding new stuff all the time.
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I've just come back from a quick 90 minute whizz along the Bovey Valley and noticed a tractor determinedly clearing a lot of the bracken from below Yarner carpark..
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tractor tyres affecting anything of ours do you think ?
i'll give it a -
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Posted 10 months ago # -
Went for an explore with sharki this morning round bench tor. The switchbacks down to the river is a cracking run. Anyone tried the track alongside the river out to newbridge, we rode half a mile or so but didn't have time to go further.
Posted 10 months ago # -
holy thread resurrection!!
did anyone ever get any of this lot sorted..?
any new trails done?
I've a few days off this coming weekend and monday/tuesday too
so if anyone fancies exploring anywhere then bell me.
Posted 2 months ago # -
Blast from the past indeed.
I'm finding it tricky to get enough time to meet up with any of you lot at weekends (Part time MA study), but am giving myself Thursday nights as guaranteed regular riding slot. So if anyone wants to show me (and a few mateys) around either some Lustleigh Gnartech or the Dart valley stuff from Bench Tor on Thursday Evenings i'd be very grateful and would show you the Dr.Blackalls Drive single track that you probably all know anyway...Posted 2 months ago #
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