The next week was the 100km event, starting at Ware Cross and this time successfully meeting up with the Exeter bunches who were doing the 100 miles. From the roundabout it was up to Bovey Tracey where some of us stopped for a coffee with the Exeter A-Section. Then on to Chudleigh Knighton, Chudleigh Bridge and up the Teign Valley to Longdown, where some of us had lunch. At Exeter we found the A-Section and the rest of the Torbay lot eating their lunch on the banks of the canal.

As we started off through Exeter again we found our latest recruit, Phil Benstead, with Andrew Winstanley, both of whom had gone astray somewhere and found their way to Exeter on their own. From Exeter it was out to Killerton House and then back through Stoke Canon and Exeter. We took the main road to the coast through Exminster and Kenton to Dawlish, where we were given tea and biscuits by Don and Grace Hassall. This made up a little bit for the fact that Don had marshalled for a Vespa event that day instead of riding with us! Thank you very much – we needed it! From Dawlish the coast road took us homeward via Teignmouth and Ware Cross.

(Mark Morton, 15)