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[Closed] Well that was fun - epic ride and sunshine!

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Went out with a riding buddy today on a train-bike-train ride.
Got the train from Exeter to Yeoford, 14 miles on road to Belstone, and then rode Dartmoor north to south offroad to Ivybridge, and then train back to Exeter 😀
Probably the best riding conditions on Dartmoor I've ever seen, even the mires were rideable as they were frozen!
46.5 miles all in all, and one of the best rides I've ever been on 😉


 
Posted : 02/04/2013 10:32 pm
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that sounds bloody lovely.. 😀


 
Posted : 02/04/2013 10:34 pm
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It was!
GPS to follow when I've uploaded it from the Garmin.
We hiked about a 2/3km section near Fox Tor (normally it would be a nightmare, but the firm/frozen ground made it ok) but all the rest was ridden.
The Krampus performed admirably 🙂


 
Posted : 02/04/2013 10:43 pm
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Posted : 02/04/2013 11:13 pm
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Here's the Strava of it.... [url] http://app.strava.com/activities/47001919 [/url]

Joe, the guy I was riding with, said that he'd looked online to see if anyone had done a top to bottom route across Dartmoor offroad, and couldn't find any mention of it.
I can't believe we're the first, and I'm sure there's probably a better route 😆 some of the frozen tussocks around Fox Tor will be giving me bad dreams for a while!


 
Posted : 02/04/2013 11:57 pm
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I was just about to post about this - Cheers ajantom for a superb ride. One of the best ever and certainly the best ever day on the moor. The Krampus was storming and Bubbles (my alfine karate monkey) both performed admirably, which is more than can be said for their owners. I still can't find others [s]stupid[/s] [i]amazing[/i] enough to try it. Perhaps a register should be set-up...
Pics to follow...


 
Posted : 03/04/2013 7:55 pm
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Yeoford has a lovely station and library:

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Tom and the Krampus on top of Sittaford tor:

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Bubbles;

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Posted : 03/04/2013 8:18 pm

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