Devon TRF Group Forum

SteveGT · Clubman B

Coast to Coast

L'orange · Devon's Best

Devon group used to do a coast 2 coast, think it was Mann Sands to Butlins in minehead.

Can anyone remember? it was well before my time.

Pete · Devon's Best

2002 Mansands start from the bottom of Woodhuish lane
Mansands start.jpg

and finishing by the sea at Minehead
Minehead finish.jpg

Great fun

TTR · Powermonger!!

L'orange wrote:

Devon group used to do a coast 2 coast, think it was Mann Sands to Butlins in minehead.

Can anyone remember? it was well before my time.

Yer - I remember it well! It was a 2-day run starting at Mansands and finishing the first day at Longdown where folks camped in the garden, slept in the barn or on the settee.

The 2nd day was usually led by our friends from the Exmoor Group such as Julia (DR650 kicker confuse

) and Chris (XR250) who took us by wonderfully gnarly lanes to Minehead where the softees were met by their other halves with trailers whereas us hardnuts just turned around (after a pasty and ice cream of course) and did another batch of lanes on a different route home biggrin

L'orange · Devon's Best

dont suppose, we got an archive NL write up anywhere??

SteveGT · Clubman B

This was 650 miles from Kent to near Hartland point. Took 3 or 4 days I think.

Pete · Devon's Best

RE;
dont suppose, we got an archive NL write up anywhere??

Check the Yahoo site archive for the photos

KronreifTrunkenpolzMattighofen · Devon's Best

SteveGT wrote:

This was 650 miles from Kent to near Hartland point. Took 3 or 4 days I think.

Best start planning mate, May would be good.....

TTR · Powermonger!!

Ah - a thread is always better with pics so here is a nice one of you Pete from the June 2003 run - name that slippery stone slabbed lane wink

June 2003 again - only one out of the following group regularly rides these days:

July 2004 with our run leader molesting one of those woolly creatures

Mark Edwards acting sheepish - Devon C2C July 2004 006.jpg

L'orange · Devon's Best

Ha Ha! forgot about that lot, some olde trf'ers there!

Some dont age though eh Pete?

An old newsletter write up is what i need, ive only got back to 2006 and some stuff from 2004.

SteveGT · Clubman B

nickpdo wrote:

SteveGT wrote:

This was 650 miles from Kent to near Hartland point. Took 3 or 4 days I think.

Best start planning mate, May would be good.....

Well I've managed to organise a 6 lane run so far, so I recon I'm ready for something a bit bigger. Coast to coast, can't be that difficult, can it!!!!

Pete · Devon's Best

Putham lane. Excellent photo I have never seen before!Thankyou.

Never did clean that one,counted myself lucky to get up without stopping,but it never did stop me.

Love the warning sign.
The angle is not inappropriate given what lies on the ascent up the far side of the valley

PeterBc · Clubman B

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