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| Ride to Exeter Quay and back | 2013-10-07 | Light winds on the way to the Quay and a head wind on the way back. New walking boots at Framers Friend. Wearing out the soles of walking boots every years must mean we are walking the dog too much.
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| 2017 miles cycled in 2017 | 2017-12-02 | This track reaches my target of cycling 2017 miles in 2017!
Was meant to be a gentle ride to Lutzys for lunch but a torn wall on the side of Liz's tyre meant that we had to abandon and get a new tyre.
Then into Exeter Quay a little later reaching the 2017 mile mark somewhere near the Turf Locks.
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| Thalmia launch | 2022-04-02 | Helping with the launch of Derek H's Thalmia from Topsham Quay.
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| Helford Kayaking | 2023-09-10 | A lovely paddle on the Helford. Via FranchMan's Creek then up to Tremayne Quay for lunch (and a VHF message relay for a broken down dory). Then back via Port Navas.
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| Up river sail | 2014-08-16 | A very pleasant up river sail as far as Topsham Sailing Club. Between F2 and F4 in the estuary but died away to very little when going up the estuary. With the tide having turned, we didn't get much furtehr than TSC.
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| Malpas and St Clement | 2015-09-21 | A shortish walk round Malpas and St Clement. Found a good canoe launching slipway just south of Truro at Sunny Corner Quay. Seafood platter for lunch at The Heron in Malpas was good.
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| Sunny Corner Quay and the Tresillian River | 2015-09-23 | From the small Sunny Corner Quay on the edge of Truro round to the Tresillian River on the Fal Estuary.
Not too far today as there was a keen wind to be paddled against on the way back down the Tresillian.
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| St Helier to St Quay Portrieux | 2017-05-31 | After a light wind start, a lovely sail down from St Helier, Jersey to St Quay Portrieux on the Brittany coast. Sailed under cruising chute for most of the way. St Quay has the huge advantage of being an "all tide" port (i.e. no need to wait for there to be enough water over a marina cill).
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| St Quay to Ile De Brehat | 2017-06-02 | Up from St Quay-Portreaux to Ile de Brehat. The Ile de Brehat is a small island on a rocky shore. Somewhat similar to Sark (no cars and a very small population like Sark but no cliffs).
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| Launching Thalmia | 2021-03-30 | With Derek H as his Fulmar was launched from Topsham Quay on the highest tides of the year.
A lovely day so on out to sea. A bit of wind for some sailing. Lunch anchored at Sandy Bay where a couple of small dolphins came out to play.
Then some drifting waiting for enough rise of tide to come back in.
Plenty of sand / mud bank changes over the winter.
The port hand buoys in the swashway had breakign waves. The clearance coming up to buoy 3 was just 30 centimetres below the keel.
Then nudged sand banks at buoy 21 and just before SYC
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| Topsham cycle ride | 2020-03-09 | Round to Darts Farm. Stopped at Topsham Quay to see who was working on their boat and for coffee and a hot cross bun.
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| Hartland Quay | 2017-09-20 | A short walk to dinner from Stoke Barton Campsite on Hartland Point.
Hartland Point is a scary place if you think about sailing near it in the wind or fog and the granite "teeth" of the rocks only enhance this.
The Hartland Quay Hotel was a really nice pub doing good food.
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| St Davids and back | 2018-11-05 | Into Exeter St Davids with Liz to pick up some train tickets. Coffee on the Quay on the way back (where police divers were searching the river for a missing person).
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| Helford Paddling | 2023-05-18 | A quick dip into Frenchman's Creek and then up to near Tremayne Quay for a coffee stop.
The first bit of the track is on land to measure the distance we dragged the kayak back up from Helford Passage to the campervan. Quite hard work but do-able. The kayak launching fee from Helford Passage was £2 which we thought was fair (and the more expensive ice cream was very nice too).
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| Exeter and back | 2019-01-12 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. Coffee at Bar Venezia and then some birthday shopping at the quay cellars.
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| Boat fettling in Topsham | 2020-03-16 | Round to Topsham to help Derek H put sails and stuff back on his boat after the winter.
Derek went up the mast - far braver than me.
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| To Exeter and back | 2012-08-06 | A ride along the estuary and canal into Exeter and back
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| Car buying bike ride - part 2 | 2013-04-22 | Back into Exeter to buy a replacement car after our Citroen Xsara estate died after just 77k miles.
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| Liz ride to work and Exeter | 2019-03-27 | Liz cycle ride to work and then into Exeter with Aidan for lunch at Mrs Lutzys.
Aidan had a puncture on the way home and had brought the right sized spare tyre but with the wrong sized valve. Doh. Liz cycled home and then rescued Aidan in the car.
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| First bike ride of 2015 | 2015-01-04 | Liz ride into Exeter and back
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| Exeter bike ride | 2022-08-11 | M&S
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2020-02-19 | Into Exeter after the floods
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-08-12 | Into Exeter and Dawlish with Liz for some shopping. Headwind on the way out.
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-03-26 | Into Exeter for the last bits and pieces for Liz's pallet based compost bins project.
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| Hundred miles this week | 2016-10-22 | The fifth 20 miler of the week. I'd expected this to be a gentle cycle ride with Liz but she was all gung ho! Way faster than I was expecting and I wasn't allowed my usual stopping places to have a breather.
This was the fifth day out in a row doing 20 miles meaning that the target of doing 100 miles in a week was reached with 2 days to spare.Day off tomorrow!
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| Another twenty miles | 2016-10-26 | Out with Liz for another cycle ride into Exeter and back.
Trying to "power" up the bridge at Powderham, I broke 3 spokes on the rear wheel. So the last 2.5 miles are Liz alone as she went home to get the car to rescue me and the broken bike.
That means the "reserve" bike tomorrow - the almost unridden Ridgeback Genesis Day Two.
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| Exeter and back | 2016-11-19 | Another 20 mile ride into Exeter and back.
First ever average of 13 mph on a twenty mile ride.
Storm Angus had left the flood prevention overflows in full spate in Exeter.
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| Another twenty miler | 2016-11-20 | Well almost a twenty miler. The 2 inch rain fall in Exeter meant that the last part of the cycle path ride was under water.
Hard work cycling in to the head wind that was the remnants of Storm Angus. Disappointing that the winds dropped away for the homeward leg - as shown by the drifting boats when stopping briefly at SYC.
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| Exeter bike ride | 2021-10-11 | Into Exeter
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2020-01-18 | Into Exeter with Liz. Liz's first cycle ride since a Xmas lurgie.
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-08-04 | Into Exeter and back with Liz.
Coffee at Mrs Lutzys.
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| Exeter ride | 2019-03-23 | Into Exeter with Liz for lunch at Mrs Lutzy's.
A rather slow ride as Liz had a bad knee and was really only riding with one leg.
I'm assuming if she'd had two legs available we'd have averaged 18 mph...
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| Exeter and back | 2016-12-05 | To the Mill On The Exe and back
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| Exeter and back | 2016-12-17 | First ride in a fortnight - work and the weather put paid to the previous weekend.
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| Xmas eve ride | 2016-12-24 | Into Exeter and back. First solo ride for a couple of week and the slightly higher speeds made it hard work!
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| Xmas day bike ride | 2016-12-25 | A ride with Liz into Exeter and back. Lots of kids on the cycle path with shiny new Xmas present bikes.
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| Exeter bike ride | 2021-10-07 | First time into Exeter in ages
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| Redundancy ride | 2020-01-10 | Into work employed. Back from work redundant - well at least in 12 days time!
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| Exeter and back | 2019-07-27 | Into Exeter and back with Liz
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| Another puncture | 2019-03-27 | Met up with Liz after she'd finished work and cycled into Exeter for lunch at Mrs Lutzys.
Cycling back, I got a puncture. It was bad enough that the "snake eyes" double puncture highlighted that I'd been under inflating the tyres. What was much worse was that while I'd managed to bring the right sized spare tube for the new bike, I'd neglected to bring one with the right valve type to fit through the wheel. Trying to use a 20 year old puncture repair kit didn't work too well either.
So Liz cycled on home and came back to rescue me from the canal car park by the Swans Nest for the second time in about 4 months.
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| Exeter and back | 2017-02-27 | A gentle ride into Exeter and back. A mixture of sunshine and showers but at least the wind was from the side.
Most impressively, Liz managed to come off her bike but still remain standing at the end of the manoeuvre!
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| Exeter and back | 2017-03-04 | A gentle wide into Exeter and back with Liz.
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| Exeter and back | 2017-03-10 | Into Exeter and back. Average speed not too bad given that there was quite a strong headwind on the way back.
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| Exeter and back | 2017-04-14 | Wanted a nice gentle ride as it was the first time back on the bike in three weeks - a camper van trip and a slow to end lurgie having got in the way.
And a nice gentle ride with Liz it was.
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| New bike wheels! | 2021-06-14 | Back from the bike shop in Exeter after getting a new pair of Hope 20five wheels fitted to the bike. The bloody wheels originally supplied with the Triban died when a spoke pulled through a rim and shattered the rim. Good riddance!
New wheels seem fine (hard to tell with a decent tail wind pushing you along).
But the gear adjustment is shagged - both front and back. I'll try to fix that before taking back to the bike shop.
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| Into Exeter | 2019-12-31 | Into Exeter with Liz for a spot of shopping
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| Meet up at the Imperial | 2019-07-06 | Into Exeter with Liz to meet up with Rose and Midge at the Imperial.
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| Exeter shopping | 2019-10-19 | Into Exeter with Liz for a bit of shopping
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| Work cycle ride | 2017-05-23 | Into work and back. Not much wind which made it a bit easier.
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| Exeter and back | 2017-06-12 | Quite hard work as I hadn't been on the bike for the last three weeks and there was a bit of a head wind on the way out.
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-12-29 | Into Exeter with Liz. Coffee and a custard pie at Mrs Lutzys.
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| Into Exeter | 2019-10-12 | No wind, no bags - so quite a fast time for me. Last 1/4 mile of normal ride was flooded by the Exe.
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2020-03-18 | Into Exeter with Liz on a post work bike ride
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| Work cycle ride | 2017-07-06 | Fast for me - especially as it was on the old bike and with two heavy panniers.
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| Work cycle ride | 2017-07-14 | Would have been a bit faster if a) an idiot car driver hadn't driven slowly down the cycle path to the Turf Locks and then cut me up at the Turf and b) my chain hadn't come off the front cog just past the Turf.
On the plus side, Little Mix weren't sound checking as I went past the concert ground at Powderham.
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| Exeter and back | 2017-07-16 | It was going to be a longer ride round to Lympstone but it started raining and the wind got up.
Still - first time ever with an average speed of over 15 mph! Would have been faster except for having to slow down so often for huge numbers of kids and walkers. They are also digging up the cycle path at Exe Bridges which meant walking round various diversions and not getting the full 20 miles in.
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| Work cycle ride | 2017-07-18 | Into work and back - managed to avoid the rain. Felt faster than 14.5 mph average!
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| Exeter bike ride | 2022-08-15 | Shopping trip.
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| Into Exeter | 2020-02-26 | Into Exeter and Liz's work. Windy on the way in. Coffee at Mrs Lutzys.
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| Lizzies 100 mile week - Part 2 | 2019-03-04 | Aidan goes abroad for work and Lizzie does a 100 miles on the bike in one week!
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| Exeter and back | 2017-10-07 | Too windy for us to want to go sailing (F4 gusting F6) so Liz and I cycled into Exeter and back.
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| Cycling into Brian | 2017-10-21 | In fact, Storm Brian was mostly a westerly and Liz and I were cycling mostly north / south so apart from the occasional big gust, it didn't make too much of a difference.
The coffee and custard tart at Lutzys was very good!
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| Lutzys cafe | 2017-11-11 | A cycle ride into Exeter and back with Liz. Stopped at Lutzy's Cafe for the rather nice custard tarts and some coffee.
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| Exeter and SYC | 2019-12-01 | Into Exeter and then back via SYC for the AGM, Windy.
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-06-03 | Ride in to Exeter with Liz to buy a new buoyancy aid.
Coffee at Mrs Lutzys.
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| Lizzies 100 mile week - Part 1 | 2019-03-02 | Aidan goes abroad for work amd Lizzie does a 100 miles on the bike in one week!
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| Exeter and back | 2017-12-23 | Into Exeter and back with Liz
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| Windy Exeter ride | 2018-01-01 | A very breezy ride into Exeter with Liz. Hard work on the way out - easier on the way back. Exe was flooding so couldn't get all the way to the Mill on the Exe. Stopped at Lutzy's for coffee.
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| Into Exeter | 2018-01-06 | Into the centre of Exeter to pick up Liz's phone after a repair because it got dunked in "a bowl of water". Excellent service from IT Mobile in Gandy Street.
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| Exeter and back | 2018-01-20 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. Picked up some free tide timetables from the very nice people at Bridger Marine on the Quay.
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| Exeter bike ride | 2020-11-12 | Into Exeter for some DIY click and collect shopping
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| Flooded cycle ride | 2019-11-24 | Into Exeter after a lot of rain. Road alongside the Estuary was flooded. Liz got wet feet!
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-05-11 | Into Exeter with Liz. Stopped at Lutzys and SYC on the way back.
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| Exeter and back | 2019-02-24 | After more fettling with the new Triban, into Exeter and back with Liz for coffee and choccie and Mrs Lutzy's.
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| Exeter and back | 2018-04-07 | Into Exeter and back with Liz
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| Exeter and back | 2018-04-23 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. Stopped for a coffee at Lutzy's.
Watched the dredger deepening the channel out from the Turf Locks.
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| Exeter and back | 2018-05-12 | Into Exeter and back with Liz.
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| Exeter | 2018-05-18 | Into Exeter and back with Liz.
Coffee at Lutzys and then a fairly strong breeze to contend with on the way back.
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| Post work DIY shopping | 2020-10-22 | Into Exeter for some paint and stuff.
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-11-18 | Into Exeter with Liz. Tacked on a couple fo extra miles to get me to under 100 miles to annual target.
Liz going super speedy to break the 10mph barrier for the first time in a few weeks!
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-05-05 | Into Exeter with Liz who didn't appreciate either the wind against us both ways or Mrs Lutzy's being full again.
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| Exeter and back | 2019-02-23 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. Mrs Lutzy's too busy to get a table for coffee!!!
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| Lidls and SYC | 2018-08-05 | A trip into town with Liz to pick up some cheap tat at Lidls and then stopped for a coffee at SYC where the weather was perfect for the Kathleen/Buxton Belle Trophy races. But that did mean we were cycling back into a stiff sea breeze.
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| To the canoe shop | 2018-08-20 | Into Exeter to buy a replacement kick stand for the canoe trolley
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| Breakfast at Lutzys | 2018-09-29 | Into Exeter with Liz for breakfast at Lutzys on the Quay.
Quite slow as it was Liz's first time back on the bike for about 6 weeks.
Replacement saddle and grips on my bike were fine.
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| Breakfast at Lutzys | 2018-10-20 | Into Exeter with Liz for breakfast at Lutzys
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| Exeter bike ride | 2020-10-07 | To pick up some bitumous paint
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-11-16 | Into Exeter with Liz
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-04-20 | Into Exeter on a hot Easter Saturday.
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| Exeter and back | 2018-11-24 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. First bike ride after a couple of weeks in India for work. From 30 degrees plus each day down to a couple of degrees and rain was a bit of a shock to the system.
Stopped at Screwfix for house bits and Lutzys for coffee and a cup cake.
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| Into Exeter and back | 2018-12-01 | A ride with Liz into Exeter for coffee and tarts at Lutzy's.
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| Ride into Exeter | 2018-12-10 | A cycle ride with Liz into Exeter.
Mrs Lutzy's was closed so we had another cool coffee on the other side of the quay.
On posh bike and no wind so an easy ride.
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| Exeter and back | 2018-12-16 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. Mrs Lutzys was shut so we stopped at SYC for a coffee on the way back. Rainy!
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2020-02-27 | Into Exeter after Liz finished work. Really quite windy on the way in. River somewhat flooded.
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| Back from Exeter | 2019-10-12 | Back from Exeter. Not quite so fast on the way back as a little bit of a headwind got up while I was snacking at Mrs Lutzys.
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| Exeter bike shop | 2019-01-19 | Into Exeter and the Bike Shed bike shop to see if I can get the handlebars on the Marin changed to improve the riding position a little.
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| Into Exeter | 2019-01-25 | Into Exeter and the Bike Shed to get the handlebars on the Marin changed. However, a change of plan when discussing options at the shop meant leaving the bike there and catching the train back.
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| Into Exeter | 2019-01-26 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. Coffee and a custard tart at Lutzy's (after her Xmas / New Year break).
Started to get windy on the way back.
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| Into Exeter and back | 2019-01-28 | Into Exeter with Liz. Wind assisted on the way back so a few short "sprints".
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| Windy cycle ride | 2020-03-21 | Into Exeter on a very windy day - probably force seven from the south east.
12.3mph on the way in to Exeter and 8.9mph on the way back.
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