CTC South Devon 2019 Instagram Yearbook
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Welcome to the 2019 South Devon CTC Instagram Yearbook! For the last 2 years the club has been using Instagram to document multiple rides and many trips, both near and far from South Devon. As you are reading this we have posted over 600 times and have 163 followers of our account. We hope to use this format of social media to create a wider awareness of our club, but also document our adventures. We appreciate that many people don’t use Instagram and would prefer more traditional formats of viewing photos. The best we can do is provide this digital publication to be viewed and downloaded from the web. This magazine is broken down on a month by month basis. The caption next to each image is representative of the information posted on our Instagram account. What is intriguing about this publication is the creative freedom in layout it has allowed me to work with. I hope you agree that by allowing the images to be curated, have space and become married together on the pages certainly gives them a better dynamic than viewing them as singular entities online. The man on the opposite page needs no introduction (Graham Brodie), he is part bike and part moving camera. Along with some pictures taken by myself, we have recorded many moments throughout 2019. We look forward to what 2020 has to offer. We hope you enjoy and savour this publication as much as I have putting it together. Best Wishes, Shaun East AKA: The Highwayman
.............January
First puddles of 2019
A chilly run through the lanes
Following the lights
Night Ride
Lumpy loopy lanes
Over the river
...........February
Monday Mornings! Who said they were bad? Not someone on a bike
Arggh shiver my timbers! We are to be led by our esteemed skipper Paul to the Buccaneer in Torquay for this coming Wednesday night’s ride
At the pub
It would have been “quackers” to miss the Pancake ride.
Daffodil bank
St.Valenties ride - cakes at the finish
Precision in the Bay.
Why we ride
Coastal climb
...........March
CTC Torbay - Seaborne division
All aboard Pont Aven
Returning from L’Abbaye
Vitry
Very Vitre
Magnificent Fougeres
Moon & sculptures
Gang at the Abbaye
Sunny lanes
Lanes to Shaldon
That blasted Oak
.................APRIL
Sunshine but many layers on
Cutting through the Devon lanes
Awesome Lane
Handy bike rack
Starting Out Then it went bang!
Emergency Ergs! With the man at the finish
Through the misty murk
Not a bad start
.....................May
Sunny evening lanes
The South Hams Challenge
Heading for the climb
Over the moor
Plenty of hills on today’s South Hams Challenge Ride. Thank you to CTC Plymouth for organising a great ride that took on some stunning lanes
Sun between showers
The motley Audax crew. Ready for their depart on the Back to the Smoke 400km
....................June
After the rain Time to head home
Swan TT. Ready at start.
Powering to the finish!
The 300 to go cake
Cirencester 180k
378.1 miles later
Time for the juicy ones!
Sunny South Hams
Good Luck to Nick & Jo on LEJOG. Hope it dries up.
....................July
Spooky!
Dartmoor Ghost
Misty Moreton
Devon Delight
Harmon Hundred. Paul at the end of the 100 miler.
Somewhere in the South Hams jungle!
Descending hospital hill
................August
Quick pause before final haul to Lisieux
70th celebrations. Cake and more cake
Great lunch spot at Blackdown Rings. The site of a 2000 year old fort, followed by the location of a medieval castle.
Haldon woodland.
Paris bound
Sunshine and coffee
Damp Check-in
The sun’s out and we are heading west.
It’s all go.
Under Way
Last PBP sunrise
Heading to Dreux on a cold misty morning
Heading back to Paris
My 2019 Paris-Brest-Paris was a success. Kevin and Richard also finished so a triple triumph for the Torbay trio! Now off to painkillers and soap
Lanes to the pub
Dorset Dirt
..........September
Castles in the sky
If Miele did bicycles
Good stock of spares
Vienna - lots of bike routes
Descending to Mikulov
Twelve on the border
Through the reservoirs today - literally
Sundays Ride to Avon Dam. The destination for a spot of lunch and exploring
Tunneling to the pub
Heading to Tavistock in rain
Super South Hams
Misty Brentor
...............October
Lanes to Staverton
Leafy lanes
Allee Couvert
Morlaix mirrored
Shelter from the storm
Work Hard. Take the less beaten track home!
Autumnal colours on Today’s middling ride. Since the last two days of weather have been sub naff. The glorious sunshine was more than welcome!
Sunshine and Sierra’s
More mountain climbs
Huescar at night
Full moon over cave houses
More sunny cycling
Up on the roof!
Living on the edge
Interesting roads
Descending from Sierra Nevada
More strange rocks
Biggest hill I’ve ever climbed - 3395m!
Amigos on top of the world, well Europe anyway!
Chilli controllers
Showing love for the Devil
Hell is somewhat wet
Eighteen Devils
...........November
Winter riding
Dave Twigger leads us to one of many the many Church House Inn’s within the South Hams. Thankfully not all of them. This Wednesday’s will be in Torbryan
Night lanes
Wet feet and bearings!
A damp Audax including some swimming
More swamp adventures
It’s a sign
...........December
Another beautiful sunrise on the Sharpham bike path!
Vintage ride
Sunbeam trio
Sketchy map reading resulted in schlepping across a muddy cow field!
Red earth rumble!
Fatbike camouflage
Front mech. sticking slightly
Pier and Pansonic
Off to the South Devon CTC Christmas lunch! Good cheer all round!
Thank You & Happy New Year!
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