[Closed] Dartmoor Routes.

Mind if I can join you

You'd have to ask the person that might want to be good enough to show us round. 😀

I'd be good enough to show you around.. and more than happy to..

but I've got a poorly knee.. and I've also got a new baby arriving in the next day or two..
I could show you around the local woods for an hour.. but that would be rather boring and you would end up hating me for it..

someone will be along shortly to provide a solution no doubt.. 🙂

That's very good of you yunki.
Maybe we could fit a short ride round your local woods in aswell as a longer ride with Woody or anyone else willing to help out. 🙂

I can show you the natural stuff in lustleigh and Haldon but am always happy to learn more routes on the moor as it were...

I'd be keen to see what Haldon off piste has to offer. 🙂

Maybe we could fit a short ride round your local woods

Oh god no.. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enema.. but if you do manage to winkle Woody out of hibernation I'll tag along at the back for an hour before disappearing back into the undergrowth..

When are you down & where abouts on Dartmoor do you want to ride?

I live in Kernow but ride the W.Dartmoor trails Princetown/Burrator etc fairly often & maybe free to guide if needed.

Obviously E.Dartmoor is Trailmonkey's territory & has the more techy trails in & around Lustleigh to show you.

oooohh starting to look good.

We've not booked a date yet so it could be anytime next month.
When are you free?

It'd be good to do east one day and west the other.

This will also have the added advantage of having less time to spend on the visiting side of the trip. 😀

I'm out every weekend...

Stu - drop me an email (addy in profile) & we can go from there.

I don't mind guiding or I can send GPX routes instead.

I can't do the wkend 24/25th March 🙁

I'll mail you later crispy.
Guiding would be much more fun than a GPX as we get to socialise aswell as ride. 🙂

OK Stu guiding it is then 🙂

ping back up here when you're coming down and we'll sort something out. Woody is in hibernation at the mo, as Yunki suggests, but may be tempted out if the weather holds for a while. if not we have a few other mates who are around and will be happy to guide.
if you want to do haldon we can do that too, for sure, as we know that hill pretty well...
just let us know when you're about and you'll not be short of riding. 😀

East one day and west the other, sounds like my kind of weekend, if it's open to all then I'm up this one if avaliable.

Cheers guys.

We'll sort something out when i've not just come back from the pub. 😉

Though Mrsssstu has just said that it's a weak excuse from Woody as she's busy studying for her masters and can find time to come down to his neck of the woods. 🙄 😉

I'd be up for this aswell. Sure we can dig Woody out of his hole for the Dartmoor stuff.

Happy to guide around the cheeky stuff at Haldon if you choose to do that. The fairies have been busy today...

who you callin' a fairy!? 👿

Relatively new to the area and still finding my way round but would definitely be up for a ride depending on family commitments etc... that is of course provided that no-one's going to take exception to the lack of boingy bits at either end of my particularly sturdy bicycle.

Up there today about 11am as weather looks o.k. for once.

March is the start of summer down here these days so there'll be plenty of good stuff to be done and we'll be in residence.

Del/Cleetus,
Where were you digging for lucky charms? Was up there with Anne, sent her down the old Rat run 🙂

Whereabouts Shinythings? Will also be playing outside about then. Was thinking of doing some burrator area stuff but could be easily diverted

Onto, Be the east to get rid of post cold and unfitness. Where have you not been in the east?

Will have the dog with me so it's either haldon, lusleigh or burrator for me today (need to avoid roads). mind you, i've not done much round drogo.

Teign valley (Drogo) will be minging.

I'll be going from Yarner, but can go from Hound tor if helpful. 10:30 - 11AM

cool, see you at Yarner about 10:45 then. white bike, black lab 🙂

Wilco, see you there - blue citroen

Anyone else?

singlespeedstu - just seen the thread - drop me a mail

ivyhouse7 AT yahoo dot co dot uk

we'll get you sorted out with the good stuff one way or another 8)

Anyone else?

I'll be on a rigid SS with a robust and very heavy toddler on the back..

We may venture into Lustleigh but we'll definitely be staying in the bottom of the valleys..

might bump into you later.. have a good one.. 😀

crispy, birchy and trailmonkey.
Mailed all of you.

great ride today, many thanks shinythings! roll on the next one.

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Not bad conditions apart from the usual post rain one inch of gloop which made it unpredictable. Glad you enjoyed it ontor, you've a lot more to see yet.
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Ontor and dog on Bowermans
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Welcome indeed
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Ontor about to reach the slippery bits

They came out really well, cheers

I did think I was going to take you out for one short moment, as I hit the slippy stuff...

Right then.
We're heading down to you guys for the 17th/18th.
I've had various email conversations with a few of you but it's all getting a bit complicated. 😉 (for me anyway)

We'd like to ride east dartmoor on the 17th and haldon on the 18th if that's possible please?
Woodys said he may or may not be able to help us on the saturday. If he can't can anyone else?

Burchy.
If you can sort us out for haldon on the 18th that would be fantastic.

There will be cake involved for payment if that's Ok with you guys? 😀

Shinything.

I know where your second picture was taken. I parked up there the other day while i was taking a break inbetween visiting customers.
It does look like the area has a hell of a lot to offer. 8)

That be Lustleigh cleave that we bang on about, an awful lot of high class stuff in that panarama . I'm sure I'll be on hand with TM when you're down as it's 15mins away for us.

will be there too if I can.

I'll hopefully be out of hibernation by then

Really looking forwards to this now.

Still on? what time at Haldon? & Yarner?

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this image suffering from the aura of gnar emanating from Shinythings. both you and the dog will be pregnant Ontor. suggest you get yourselves booked in for your first Scans.

dates noted and it will be organised. not by me, obviously, i'll just turn up and [s]drink[/s] eat cake. 😀

I will tag on if I am not being all roadie boring man stuff things 🙂 @Crispy

fine, so long as you're not worried about being impregnated, from a distance. that gnar is powerful stuff.
irritatingly i may have trouble sunday wrt a flight to ****ing sweden. 😥
Stu, what time do you estimate you need to bug out, and what time do you estimate a comfortable start on sunday?
sorry to be asking questions like that. i have to look at flights. 😳

I really have no idea what time or where either of these rides will start until the very nice folks that are going to guide them tell me/us? 🙂

Looking forwards to meeting you all though.

Right, for those that are interested the Sunday Haldon part of ssstu's Devon adventure will start from the Gissons hotel (EX6 7UD) just off the A38/A380 junction.

10:30 start at the pub and 11 at the hub on the top for those too lazy to ride up.

Can't make the Sunday Haldon loop but can do the Saturday Lustleigh ride.

Any news on where & when the Saturday ride is going to meet/start ???

Del - just thread Surfing if you are still looking at this - but I wanted to say thanks for showing Kelly and I around Haldon in July.

My very random over the bar (in which I thought I had just winded myself) turned into a trip to Casualty. I had actaully forced my sternum inwards sufficiently to give my self some nasty internal brusing - was given loads of drugs - and had to have 10 days off work -and no cycling for three months!

That aside a fun time!

Cheers

G

Crispy I'm hoping trailmonkey will come out of hiding to guide that one. If not its me and Si. I'll post up in the week, but I'd expect a 10:30 start in Bovey/Yarner area.

I mailed trailmonkey yesterday and he said he was hopefull he'd be able to make it. 🙂

If not i'm sure you guys will also do a great job of guiding. 8)

I'm just looking forward to riding in a new to me area.

Guy - 😯
no problem guiding, i enjoyed, and it was nice to meet you both.

well i hope that big gay bear trailmonkey is out next week. not seen him in ages!

Just had a mail from Trailmonkey saying he's unable to make the saturday ride. 😐

But he's told me that he's organised a guide or two for me anyway 😀

So see you lot at the weekend and we can all talk about TM behind his back while he's not there to defend himself. 😉

we can all talk about TM behind his back

i do

meet is Saturday, 10.30 at the NP HQ at Parke in Bovey Tracey.

Have fun all

lunchy bumpy

Is this still an open invitation?

Not that i'm in charge but i see no reason why it's not.

i'm sure you'd be more than welcome bucko - long time no see

you'll know virtually everyone on the ride anyhow

Mrsssstu is just making a cake as payment to our guides. 😀

Mmmmm cake!

Bucko your more than welcome, see everyone Saturday.

Burchy1 - Member

Mmmmm cake!

Sorry guys but there seems to be a bit missing. 🙄

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Looking forward to it, not ridden on Dartmoor for a few months. Bring on the summer!

What is the parking situation, can we actually park at the NP HQ?

Still hoping to make this. See you all in the morning, fingers crossed.

A big thank you to everyone that turned out on both days and made us feel welcome.

You guys have some fantastic trails.

We'll be down again for some more of the same.
Any time any of you fancy a ride in mid wales just give us a shout.

sounds like it all went well.

what trails did you ride ?

what trails did you ride ?

Here's yer first clue 😉 .....

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what trails did you ride ?

Del said i'm not allowed to tell anyone about the trails we rode. 😉

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Cool ride today, thanks Stu for letting me join the fun unannounced, thanks Del for guiding and for being my uppy/downy seatpost monitor! Slugwash, would love to know more about the bivvi trips sometime, see you all around, cheers, Paul.

Glad you guys enjoyed it and more than happy to help show you round, especially when there was cake like that up there as payment!

I'll be sure to give you a shout for some three riding next time I'm visiting the WM.

We rode this trail too.

Would love to know where that trail from the video is! Gotta put the part time masters study to one side for a Saturday, leave the confines of Buckfastleigh and come ride with you East Dartmoor guys soon!

I was behind you and yet I barely recognized that on film Stu, for a minute I was envious!! Makes it look quite open.

Hope you had a good one 🙂

Makes it look quite open.

Makes the steep bit look flat too.

Hope you had a good one

We had a fantastic time thanks. 😀

A pointer to the start of that trail
in the vid would be good! 😉
Ridden hound tor lustliegh north
bovey area a lot recently, am i warm!

thanks to Si and Burchy for guiding. i was merely advisor, cake critic, general hanger-on, and heckler. 🙂
good fun chaps.
see some of you again soon i'm sure.
germinator - just come on a ride some time is probably easiest and more sociable.

Cheers del once the 5 spot is
offroad worthy will do.

If anyone is about from April 7th -April 14th as I'm holidaying in Lustliegh for a week and am up for a few rides .. 😆

Del you forgot to mention that you were also there to test that the ground was still there. With your head. 😀

*waves*

I need to sort myself out for one of these one day.

motherhubbard!

[i]singlespeedstu - Member

Makes it look quite open.

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Steep bit? You must be mistaken, definitely nothing steep. 🙂

I could have sworn there was a steep bit in there down through the rocks. 🙂