give a shout – I’ll happily show you round the moorland stuff.

In the spirit of reccomend what you ride my Karate-monkey with alfine hub and 2.4 tyres is perfect for long days on t’moor and it climbs nicely too…

29er CM front and rear on my karate monkey. love it.

buzzard

What joe said.
I rather miss our north downs jaunts joe!

yep I can see this in my future.

Give me a shout and I’ll show you round lustleigh/moor/haldon

ruffwear have been great for perrin the wonderhound

Rohloff. No question about it.

Got a link/route dibbs?

Fantastic!

And another from up the road…

Cool – any others?
Any Bell Super users yet?

@OCB – Too late – already bagged that one :)

As we’re always in the same area – Fancy a pint/spin/both sometime?

Found another on the way home…

Perrin the wonderdog;

This one is just down the road from work and somebody clearly cares for it a lot. Perhaps they’re glad to be so close/far from Totnes?

EDIT:

It’s from 1700 odd and is grade II listed;

From here;

Name: MILESTONE AT SX 8846 5627
List entry Number: 1218422
Location
MILESTONE AT SX 8846 5627, STOKE GABRIEL ROAD
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County District District Type Parish
Torbay Unitary Authority
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 18-Oct-1993
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.

Too tired to explain properly but it’s probably no longer inducing enough current in the pot for it to detect – see what has changed, make sure there is good electrical contact between bottom & top of maker?

As its a suggestion that narrowly missed last week, here’s a cheeky entry from yesterday’s ride, narrowly missing this week. A shocking image but it rather conveys the speed involved I think.

I was on the rigid karate monkey, everyone else on 5 inches of travel. The route was the rocky slopes of east dartmoor. I felt like I had brought a knife to a gunfight as we pelted down the smallacombe descent…

Haldon forest & lustleigh – long travel hardtail singlespeed.

Dartmoor – rigid, hub gear and BIG tyres

Excuse my ignorance. Are locking blade types illegal to carry? If so, what’s the logic with that? I mean people are just as kill-able with any type of knife aren’t they?

The Uk has a torturous set of knife laws – we’re the most paranoid country in the world about them if I recall correctly. It’s sort-of legal to carry a knife that locks and/or is over 3inches if you have sufficient justification, eg. you’re going camping or fishing etc. It’s not ok to have one because they’re a very useful thing to have and the locking aspect is somewhat frowned upon.
you can carry a sub 3 inch non-locking folding knife and be ok, it’s the reason I like the svord peasant so much – it’s max length and the tang is clasped in the handle so it’s essentially impossible for it to fold on your fingers.

The Svord Peasant knife is about the best you can do for an every-day in the uk

Ok – how about this;

I think it’s supposed to be the design for a fountain

Taken from up on top of stonyman hill it’s a view of shiphay etc. I was going to take a picture of the pier or the wheel but I rather thought I’d leave them to your good self. Good to see I guessed correctly.

Is it cheating to have the whole of torquay – tacky little dive that it is?

taken on the way home from work this afternoon.

Proposal for next week: “The best bit…” pics of the best bit of commute/trail/bike/etc

tourist attractions!

From Tim at http://www.theoldbicycleshowroom.co.uk/

mountain laurel designs

I have a few of their bits and bobs and they’re ace.

Nice to see other perspectives. I can see how it would be a fun local loop, especially on a little jumpy bike perhaps. I have to admit that the steep up and technical rooty down of local woods/lustleigh cleave or the long slog of a moorland epic are more my style than small trail centre thing. I wonder if the long-travel singlespeed that so suits my local & preferred stuff wasn’t exactly the least suitable thing to be riding here…

me riding the old Surrey northshore on a MUni…

looks like the standard princetown – burrator loop to me

Not a watering hole as such but here’s the bike leaning against the old bollard down at the quay. New cycling bridge in the background

Castles/fortifications or ancient history next week?

OCB
Think ive just connected the dots and Yep, that’s the place!.
Going to the new place on Friday I think…

Crispy bacon
Spot on!

Golly ocb, is that where I think it is? Were you the chap that waved first thing this morning?

A rusty old engine on my commute to work this morning – bonus points if you know where it is!

It was nearly put up for 2014 but I thought south then souther would be a bit much. Besides, it ought to go to taz next year. Haldon would be the main venue with an option for a short* ride over the moor.

Anywhere north of the South Downs is monsters and glaciers surely?

*not everyone has the same idea of short…

There’s a half-baked Devon event ready to go now too, was going to chuck hat in for 2015 but it too can wait.

Lovely commute of 14 miles of south Devon roads including 3-4 castles and 2 big hills here. If I take the longer route I can go home via haytor for many miles of punishment bliss

Just bought a cinelli gazzetta della strada & am very pleased. Rides best with weight up front.