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Lizs first cycle ride in ages and first ride on new cycle track between Powderham church and the Turf Locks

One major fxxxwit (dog walker) and one minor fxxxwit (geriatric cyclist trying to catch covid) on the path today.

Down to Dawlish Warren for food shopping and then to the Swing Bridges and back. Then back to Dawlish Warren for bike repairs. Helluva windy - straight into the teeth of Storm Darcy!

Actually the BBC weather app said minus two with wind chill to minus 8. Windy.

Rainy and windy but not cold. Saw Mark S on the way back - he'd also miscalculated just how rainy it was going to be. Newly serviced bikes nice and silent.

Down to Dawlish Warren for some food shopping and then to the Swing Bridges and back. Wet and windy. Straight into a bit of a gale on the way back.

More wind and rain.

Food shopping at Dawlish Warren and then round to the Swing Bridges. Not as wet and windy as the last few days.

Saw lots of people from SYC taking their exercise. Best weather of the year so far.

Dawlish food shopping followed by a very windy Swing Bridges ride. Gusting 30 knots from the south - directly into the wind on the way home.

Food shopping at Dawlish Warren and then to the Swing Bridges. Too many idiots on the path. Yacht now sunk.

No wind

Food shopping at Dawlish Warren and then back via the Swing Bridges. Faster than usual for Liz on the way back.

Swing Bridges and Spar shopping. Liz was averaging 12.1 mph by the Swans Nest on the way back.

Swing Bridges - windy but from the side. In the photo Liz demonstrates the art of propping your bike up on just one brake leaver (and on a windy day at that).

Slow ride to Swing Bridges

Down to Dawlish Warren for the bakery then up to the Swing Bridges and then back via SYC to pick up everything I'd left there on Wednesday. And some sea weed.

Swing Bridges bike ride

Maintenance bike ride

To the Swing Bridges and back with Liz

Along the estuary and canal to the Swing Bridge and back again with a detour to Powderham Castle for supplies

Along the estuary and canal to the swing bridges and back. The start of Lizs cycle training apparently

To the swing bridges and back

Along the estuary and canal to the swing bridges on the newly serviced bikes. Stopped for a cup of coffee at the Turf on the way back

Along the estuary and canal to the Swing Bridges and then back via Powderham Castle

First time back on the bike after a couple of very wet months. To the Swing Bridges and back again.

A lovely cycle ride to the Swing Bridges. Bit of a sod on the way back straight into the southerly force 5 all the way. Aidans first time back on the bike for a couple of months.

First bike ride in a very long time. Only as far as the Countess Wear swing bridges over the Exeter Canal. Work is about half way through the 14 month schedule of work on the swing bridge / roads. As per the pictures, o…

Down to Dawlish Warren for food shopping and then to the Swing Bridges and back. Straight into the teeth of Storm Darcy!

Was going to be further but Liz didn't like the thunder. Slow - very slow.