As well as the usual quality contribution from Sean Comber. This episode includes Chris Cole, accepting an award, plus Ian Collins and Sean are both mentioned for their contributions in a large article about lane clearing. Well done everyone. Trevor
A cracking ride yesterday around East Devon, started at Tedburn St Mary looping clockwise around Crediton, Cullumpton, Honiton, Sidbury and Clyst St Mary. 128miles door to door for me - with a short commute from Plympton to Ivybridge and back for my lift - thanks Damian Steer The weather was set to...
My regular supplier has stopped producing fire wood. Can any recommend someone in the Newton Abbot area that supplies logs ie Ash, Oak etc. Cut and split. cheers Trevor
Late one Friday evening in October 2002 a phone call disturbed my rest and I was asked if I wanted to take the place of someone who had previously said they wanted to go spend a day trail riding in Wales but who when it came right down to it, tomorrow, didn't, and I jumped at the chance. The bike is always read...
How do I get a password for the green road map access, I've tried logging in with my email and password for the TRF site and not recognised Cheers Damian
Hi I'm Dave Williams just joined as for several years I've been riding out on my own most weekends and feel it's a bit risky as I'm getting older (64) I have two bikes a XLR125 that I've put a 190 kit on. Barrel,piston,cam and carb that little bike will climb anything. The other is a beta 300 xt which is a grea...
I've been looking into the minefield of which is travel insurance. The best I've found is from navigator which can offer any cc bike for on road and I plan to do a tour (enduro style but guided) but they offer a add-on for Ł67 for off-road riding but only up to 250cc. Does anyone know or have used another pr...
Monthly meeting Tuesday 12th, The Dolphin Bovey Tracy. 1900hrs meet for a chat, drink and food. 2000hrs for a short meeting then plenty of opportunities for talking and socialising after. This is a great opportunity for new members to introduce themselves and for people we haven't seen for a while t...
Day 5 and an unexpected final day to our original planned 6 day trip, but not for any bad reason I might add. Both Russ and I were (fortunately) awake early, 6:30am, before our set alarm at 7am, and Russ having checked the Met weather report he said rain was due at 07:30 so we packed up the tents and loaded u...
Copied from Visor Down report by Alex Whitworth Sun, 27 Aug 2023HIGH COURT ALLOWS VEHICULAR ACCESS TO RURAL WREXHAM ROAD A High Court decision has revoked a rule which had banned motorised access to a rural road in Wrexham. The traffic regulation order was applied to a road known as Whitestones...
Have a new CRF300l which I have completed tweaking for TET and local lane use. I have done a few runs out on it and quite like the bike but as expected the std tyres are rather average Especially in ruts and mud (Mud in August heaven forbid) I am after some tyre recommendations especially with there perfor...
Hi all, I'm heading up to Holne for Vmcc breakfast meet on Sunday. Think a few of us are going to play in the lanes on the way back. Are there any lanes around the holne to islington area not suitable for a Himalayan running tkc 80s? Mat ( i seem to have limited forum access, so apologise if in wrong sect...
Hi plotted a nice loop using the Trf green map 106km,completed it today but came across a few lanes with issues one that had sign stating it was a Bridleway so navigated round it then i had two others with one going up past a house and as i approached the owner was outside and he said that it was a footpath so n...
Evening all, Just pinched an inner tube fitting new rubber . Does anyone know who in the Torbay - Newton area stocks inner tubes? After a couple of 21 90'90s cheers mat
Images are now uploaded to website ***** Please note these are Low Resolution Low quality (unprocessed) versions of the images Due to the number and size of originals ***** I was thinking if people require copies of the full size images let me know which images, with maybe a small contribution to club...
Day 4 started nice an early as we like, set off by 8:10am with another full days riding ahead of us. We set off heading due south towards Barmouth on the coastal road. No more than 10mins into the ride and we reached Harlech where a historic castle stands overlooking the bay. A quick pic and a gentle throt...
Well what a looooong day that was!! 250miles and 10.5hrs riding ....... and all to end up back where we set off from!! (We've decided to pitch back up at the same campsite in Penrhyndeudraeth after our loop today) It was very much a day of two halves. Let me explain...... We were packed up and ready for th...
Well what a cracking ride day two of our Wales adventure was; Hay-on-Wye - Bullith Wells - Rhayader - Llanidloes - Machynlleth - Bala and finally camped up at Penrhyndeudraeth. 180 miles in total. The day started early (for me) at 5:30 when I woke and couldn't get back to sleep so I fired up the jetboil a...
Monday 14th Aug 2023 So the day started at home with some very heavy rain but we had a delayed start to the trip due to me having a visit from the city council tree inspectors which I didn't want to defer. By the time they'd left the rain had passed (great timing) so we set off. We stayed on the M5 all the way to...
Hi Was just going to do my first forum post to report a tree down and I noticed that the reports seem to be in various forum areas General Discussion , ROW, Lane clearing, Run reports etc Is there a correct Process and Forum area for posting ? Plus I see that there is an out of date collated list as a sticky pos...
