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devondan


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I borrowed the link from the IT forum I'm sure Dave wont mind as he's a TRF member but enjoy! Click here

Each film is a slide show so give it a few secs to load.

Dan


-- Edited by devondan on Friday 5th of November 2010 10:25:49 PM

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Dave Riley is a good bloke and the site is excellent - some interesting old bike he's had.

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yep he he ive been on some of that stuff jacked up DT 175s- XT500 == PE 175/250/400 the honda xr200 ohhh memories recall i spent alot of time going sideways and pushing them all up hills ????? lost

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Magic - really enjoyed looking at them Dan....

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Fantastic! 

Things don't change do they? Take a pic and only then help your mate up wink

I have a copy of the only decent trail riding book ever written - Exploring Green Roads & Lanes of Great Britain by Ian Thompson - published by Haynes in 1988 - with similar machinery and clothing in the pics biggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrin

There was great demand on Haynes for a reprint but I think a pre-GLEAM anti-trail riding Director put the mockers on it hence copies are a bit rare  cry


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There's a certain warm feeling I got from looking at those old bikes - I am referring to the motorcycles and not the riders! no

Do you think we could create a new edition, especially with the few local lanes losses we have had recently?

I have a contact at Haynes - maybe we could work something out?

You never know, maybe we could pulish some evidence to assist us in future disputes?

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Not sure if a trail riding book would be a seller in the days of on-line run reports with pics and videos. 

There is a place for "adventure" dirt biking books as per Sam Manicom etc but really not sure about the domestic situation.

Even TBM's "Doing the Rounds" articles don't really cut the mustard any more.

I could be wrong and in 20 years times a new generation of trail riders (hah!!!) might wish we had committed our pastime to paper coz all the electronic media has become accessible in their old style formats.

Ian's book was the record of his trek across GB using as many green lanes as possible. Reading his trek across Somerset makes you want to weep as 99.9% is now Restricted Byway cry

Having had an old school XR200, those period pics of it both posed and in action certainly re-kindle memories of past adventures biggrin


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Good pics and site, but I'm getting depressed about thinking how many of those lanes are now lost cry

-- Edited by Hoops on Saturday 6th of November 2010 12:14:11 PM

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Brilliant, it took me right back to my youth. I had a dt400 back then and used to fall off more than I do now. Now where`s me rose tinted spectacles. biggrin

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Gruff growl wrote:

Brilliant, it took me right back to my youth.



Bloody hell - that was a long trip man yawn



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Mmm..
I have three drawers full of pictures taken on trail rides in Devon,Cornwall,Somerset,Wiltshire and Wales.
Must start scanning.
As Brian says there isn't likely to be a market for a book to frame the illustrations.
I do get somewhat wistfull looking at the Exmoor/Quantocks pics taken before the roads became the newly created Restricted Byways.
Wales gap road 2002 zoom.jpg
This is me flying down the Gap road in Wales

-- Edited by Pete on Saturday 6th of November 2010 07:47:04 PM

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100 % smile Love the old photos.

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Pete wrote:

Mmm..
I have three drawers full of pictures taken on trail rides in Devon,Cornwall,Somerset,Wiltshire and Wales.
Must start scanning.
As Brian says there isn't likely to be a market for a book to frame the illustrations.
I do get somewhat wistfull looking at the Exmoor/Quantocks pics taken before the roads became the newly created Restricted Byways.
Wales gap road 2002 zoom.jpg
This is me flying down the Gap road in Wales

-- Edited by Pete on Saturday 6th of November 2010 07:47:04 PM


Great photo Pete,  wish I had one like that, joie de vivre....

Must of been tough to hold the pose whilst the plates were exposed?biggrinbiggrinbiggrin

 



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Just being silly,joie de vivre.
A place came up at short notice for a day out in Wales so there I was.
Descending the far side of the Gap road is a long gentle inclined gravel track.
I felt like standing up and stretching so I did.
Didn't know there would be a camera.
Bit grainy when zoomed in on,this is the original,the road curves round the mountainside.
Wales gap road 2002.jpg
Wouldn't recommend trying this,I thought,as I reflected on the ten years I have been riding the same machine and how well I know and trust it's handling.
I could see no large rocks amongst the gravel around which a gentle change in the weighting of my feet on the pegs would not easily steer me past,heels planted against the frame and knees gripping the tank it was easy to stand and stretch my back and arms.
Once I spotted another rider I did wonder if my antic would cause comment,but I was didn't see a photo until seven years later when it appeared,somewhat stretched,in the DTRFG newsletter above a reprint of a 100 lane run report reprint. 


-- Edited by Pete on Sunday 14th of November 2010 10:26:05 PM

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Magical moment then at least twice and perhaps thrice over.  smilesmilesmile

You should get a poster Pete.  That's a moment of mastery and so cool it is nearly too good,  I bet you could eat fifty boiled eggs if you wanted to but would be happier twistin the heads off of parking meters... that was Luke....so the filum said.

Man alive i wish I had a photo of me doing that.

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Respect.

-- Edited by PeterBc on Tuesday 16th of November 2010 12:53:07 AM

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Not exactly old school but Pete's Welsh picture reminded me of a weekend of trail riding around the Wye Valley. 

The pic below shows mayhem on a Wye Valley hill - the Welsh equivalent of the Devils Steps. Not a great photo but there is a rider struggling right at the top of the pic and then someone else with, I think, Victor going to help.

As with all traillie pics, it was harder than it looks biggrin

The rest of us sat at the bottom trembling with fear awaiting our turn to have a go - knobblies not the best for this type of going wink

Lane on Wygate.jpg


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