CTC South Devon 2019 Instagram Year Book

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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