I use Tyre inflators[/url] & they are hard to beat on price.

I get 30 x 16mm carts for around £22.00 🙂

How about the Canon Powershot SX220 @ £149.95 🙂

I’ve got one & its IMHO the dogz Bollox. I take it biking with me & on other trips the zoom is outstanding & it has a shedload of features. It also shoots HD vid.

Some examples of the pics I have taken

Full shot

using the zoom on the fort

Other shot

I’m very happy with it & wish I’d bought one sooner.

I was experimenting trying to shoot action shots & got lucky with this one

Belever Woods would make a good camping spot down by the river, then next day make your way over towards Princetown/Burrator then on to Plymouth.

The worse job I ever had was crushing lemonade cans ………………….. it was soda pressing 😕

My favorite Easter joke this year.

This week is Good Friday, where all thoughts turn to a long haired man who died on the end of a long cross.

Happy Easter Andy Carroll 😆

A couple viewing a painting of 3 naked black men sitting on a bench noticed that the one in the middle had a white dick. Confused they confronted the artist about it.

He replies they are not black men but coalminers & the one in the middle had just been home for lunch.

Took the missus to a show where a black fella with big hair spins round & round in cicles.

When he had finished both me & the wife felt really horny.

Apparently it was an Afro dizzy act 😕

whats the difference between a golf ball & a womans G-spot?

A man will look 20 mins for a golf ball 🙂

Knottie8 – for the Q’s & Bellever woods
Trailmonkey – Lustleigh
Cipher23 – Haldon

Thanks Yunki

The only trail centre within 1.5hrs drive that I can think of is @ Haldon near Exeter but there is better stuff nearby on Exmoor or even the Quantocks.

I’m sure that someone will be along with some Exmoor & Q’s routes soon.

If you’re thinking of doing a ride @ Gawton, which is in Devon not Cornwall btw, then Dartmoor is not too much further on & has a variety of trails.

I know some routes on Bodmin Moor mainly around Caradon Hill/Minions which I have on GPX files if you want I’ll send them to you – email in my addy.

We nightride during the week so you can join us if you want – I’m in E.Cornwall.

Ex-pat from Devonshire now resident over the border in Kernow.

I have Dartmoor 30 mins away, Bodmin Moor 20 mins & a local loop of anything from 7 to 25 miles from my doorstep so can’t complain 🙂

singlecrack – glad you made the most of the good weather last week to ride Dartmoor, sorry we didn’t meet up on Monday as planned but it was rather damp that day 😕

Yunki – if you’re not finished by last light then you’ll be the Beast of Exmoor’s dinner ;o)

Would a 16 year old be out of place
If I have never taken part in a xc event would I likely get lost
And is anything other than a bike, helmet and suitable clothing needed?

I’m doing for the 7th year running so I have a bit of form on this event. The event is either a short 25 mile ride or a longer 35 mile ride. You ride to the ‘all you can eat T-stop’ & at this point you can decide whether you want to do the short ride back to the finish or the longer ride which is a 10/12 mile loop back to the T-stop a second time, then back to the finish. Exmoor has some very nice singletrack downhills but it also has some long techy brutal uphills too, IMHO you do need to be reasonably fit & competent on a MTB to enjoy this event. Anyway to answer your questions:

1. Check the event website for details on age, some won’t let you take part under a certain age or require parent/guardian consent to let you take part. As long as you can do a minimum of 25 miles XC you should be OK.

2. Unlike in some of the years gone past the route is now well marked & you shouldn’t get lost, however even people with the route on GPS can go wrong mentioning no names (Dibbs 😉 )

3. Strong legs & a good pair of lungs could come in handy too.

If you want a bit of a challenge & to test yourself then give it a go. I normally get halfway round & wonder why the hell I’m putting my aged body through all the grief & pain. Then the day after I’m already looking forward to the following years event – I find it addictive & go back each year.

Panic over folks I found another disk in the box which loaded Zoombrowser EX & that does the job – smashing.

save your money & eat more carrots 😀

hth 😉

Fantastic news Knottie & all the best to Mike for ‘moor’ of the same on the bike.

Cheers Phil have fun @ Haldon 🙂

Thanks Andy – I am indeed a size 28 ladies shirt 😕

Hi Phil – as its gonna be ark building wet weather on Monday we’ve decided to cancel, stay in doors & not venture out on the moor.

Give me a shout the next time you’re down if you wonna do a Princetown ride 🙂

Carl – unfortunately the day was chosen sometime ago for this ride so I’ll have to go with the weather on the day ….. wanders off to garage to screw cleats onto wellies 😕

I take it you’re not out on Monday?

Yep, I’m doing a Princetown/Burrator/Princetown ride on Monday.

If you’re interested email me (addy in profile) for details.

mattamomo – drop me an email (addy in profile) & I’ll see what I can do.

I’ve got lots of GPX files or some routes as word docs, let me know which you can open/read etc.

I’m up there on Monday if you want to join the fun, riding out from Princetown 🙂

The Gap pre-sanitisation

Dartmoor

I’m now using a Canon Powershot 220 & it’s pretty darn good 🙂

Friday – visiting the outlaws 😕

Monday – guiding a few off here on Dartmoor hopefully in some decent weather 🙂

Not quite early doors but a Sunday morning ride local to where I live in glorious sunshine but a slight chilly easterly breeze. The trails are bone dry & running sooo fast right now.

I found a tree blocking one of the downhills in the woods & when I stopped to check it out I then heard a woodpecker hammering away high up in the trees – fantastic – I’ve been riding in those woods for years & it’s the first time I’ve ever heard a woodpecker. It’s amazing what wildlife is out there if you stop & listen.

Are you in a MM team of unicyclists then Rob ?

Yep I got out with two mates for a day/nightride in E.Kernow.

It was a superb 20 miler with lots of bone dry trails & superb mild weather. It made a change to get home virtually clean & not have to wash the bike 😀

On the good news front my mate has found some sweet singletrack on the local Hill & the woods behind are drying out nicely – Woo Hoo!

Ok guys many thanks to those who had a go, here are the answers:

1. This is Deancombe & the Narrator Brook East of Burrator – the clapper bridge is just out of shot.
2. This is Stanlake Plantation north of Burrator & that is the Devonport Leat.
3. This is the BW from Nun’s Cross to the clapper bridge @ the bottom of the first steep downhill section of the Widowmaker.
4. This is Portland Lane
5. The Tor in the distance (rhs) is Ingra Tor & this shortcut cuts off King’s Tor – Yes Julian it was where I had my sense of Humour failure last year 😕

OCB – where is that rather sweet section of singletrack in the picture?

MTM – top pic is the water crossing just after the scout hut descent, I tend to miss that & use the small concrete bridge instead.

TM – No. 3 you Sir are indeed correct. It was my first time going down there & it was fun.

Anymore takers for the quiz??

I’ll give out the answers @ 9pm tonight 🙂

hugor – I can send you some GPX files for various Ptown/Burrator loops if you want?

Drop me an email (addy in profile) & I’ll send them to you.

Lol – I’m on FB under my real name plus you need to know the secret code to gain entry 😉

So far Buzz is the only one who has 1 right – No. 4 & half a point for No. 3

Anyway, let’s have a proper Dartmoor Quiz Where’s this and who are the riders?

‘err let me see disused railway line above Burrator with Bagpuss & AN Other ….. am I close?

hugor – today was a Princetown/Burrator/Princetown loop with 2 x descents on the Widowmaker & a visit to the TV mast for a last descent to Princetown, 26 miles of dry trails in the sunshine, shame about the Easterly headwind tho.

Slugwash – I’m on Flickr but under a different usename – my PC crashed & for some reason I couldn’t get back on so had to change my name.

Anyway why haven’t you identified the pics??

gusmac & eviljoe – the full route was 26 miles so I hope your ladies are ‘fit’ 😉

I’ll send you the route & some shorter gf friendly ones too.

gusmac – I’ve got most of this as a GPX route (it lost signal for a short section) is a GPX file ok?

‘err you two are very naughty boys!!

I had an outstanding day on Dartmoor today 26 miles in superb sunny warm weather on bone dry trails – long may it last 😀