There were about twenty out on the March Afternoon Run, and with Don and Grace’s at Dawlish for tea, the general direction was fixed. There was more traffic than expected on the Humber Lane from Kingsteignton – ah yes, a scramble over near Ideford, but at least we shouldn’t encounter the muddy after-effects near Stoke-in-Teignhead on our way home like we did last year!

It was rather misty so the view from the golf course was spoilt, but not the drop into the back of Dawlish from Holcombe Down. Full justice was done to hot dogs and “Jelly babies and custard”, but when we discovered that two riders from Totnes were without lights there was a certain urgency to get folk moving again. But of course time went on, and before long we were wondering how to get them home. Mark solved the problem quite spectacularly by jumping his chain and locking the back wheel on the drop past Smugglers, wearing a large hole in the tyre besides damaging the hub flange. “Dad” was called, and Totnes isn’t too far off the route to Stoke Gabriel!

(Colin Brierly)

[1 point: Don Hassall]
[Unknown riders were Jean Brierly's relatives]