Dartmoor Gravel Ride Tavistock Princetown Sheep Tor | Cycling Up Devon Hills | Drakes Trail
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2024
- Wheelers At Large are out cycling again this time across Dartmoor including the Drakes Trail and the Princetown disused railway down to Burrator Reservoir and Sheeps Tor.
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Adventure indeed. And those hills, eek. It is nice scenery though.
The scenery changed throughout this route! Such a lovely place!😊
Cool video! I'm doing this route tomorrow very exciting! Well done on thoes hills!
Hope you enjoy it... It should be good at the top but may get a little boggy at the bottom after today's rain. Fingers crossed the ice cream van will be there 👌
@@WheelersAtLarge ah yes I was thinking it would be boggy somewhere, definitely hope the ice cream.van is up there aha, although for me it's about 8 miles in for me as I'm starting from Tavistock.
Starting in Tavistock for parking!
@@lovescycling88 free parking in Yelverton at the start of the Drakes Trail too. Have good one 👍
@@WheelersAtLarge ah OK.ill head over and look as mine isn't free and I was just hoping for a car park
Great video team but Please O Please it can only be cream first in Devon. 😀
Oh blimey... The next time we ride in Devon I'll have forgotten which way round again 😁👍 maybe we should ride there more often to make it easier to remember...
Great ride folks I'll have to find some new ground for you to discover next time you are down.
It's a lovely area, I'm sure we'll be back down there again soon! Thanks Paul. 😊👍
I’ve been meaning to ride that trail from Princetown to the reservoir for ages, will have to do it soon. Thanks for the reminder! Always nice to do a lap of the reservoir as it’s flat….. unlike the rest of Dartmoor.
That part of the ride was so different to the terrain we normally ride, we were so lucky with the weather. I imagine it would you'd be very exposed in bad weather there!🤔 Thanks for watching and commenting 😀👍
Nice ride Mike and Julie very well done, Julie certainly got her monies worth of yee haa's in that long tunnel.
Good effort on the climbs.
Have yourselves a great weekend.
Thanks Terry! Triple Yeehaa in one tunnel! 😊😉😃 Enjoy your week too! 👍
That was great! Although parts of it looked more like trail running than bike riding! Exciting stuff.
Yeah the Sheep Tor was a trail for mountain bikes I think! 👌
Boy that was tough and sometimes dangerous ride ,your a pair of hardy ones .you’d be fit to come Fermanagh and take part in the lakeland gravel grinder
There were some tough hills to Princetown, thank goodness for ice cream! 🍦👍 I shall have to go look up the Lakeland gravel grinder now Charlie! 👌
I’ll be there cheering you on
Lovely ride - my home turf! I actually manage the land around the reservoirs here and Burrator is a reasonably healthy 48%. It’s the big one down here in Cornwall that I ride around (Colliford) that’s really in dire straits at 17%, there’s some pretty strange things starting to appear as the water drops. You can wade across it now! I do love that bridge - it was never there when I was growing up in Tavi, we had to go down the valley and up the other side 😮💨. Super vid as always.
The hills were a little challenging on this route thats for sure! Was a good adventure! 👍😊
lol 14:39 🙂
Naughty WVM, looked much closer from behind when it happened than it does on camera. All good though fortunately...
All the open country is impressive. Pretty gnarly trail in some parts but you guys conquered as usual. Now I'm hungry for some mutton chops!
Haha Ken with a bit of mint sauce! Some of the trail would have been better on a mountain bike i think! 😂 there were so many different types of terrain on this route! 👍
@@julie-wheelersatlarge as I watched I kept thinking how much fun a mountain bike would have been. You two are awesome!
Thanks for that@@kenwilliams2219 yeah you're not wrong ! 🤔😊👍Full sus e mountain bike! 😉
Ah now, which is more dangerous, sheep or cows? Sheep I've discovered can headbutt you in the plums with unerring accuracy (and I was only trying to help the damned thing as it got its head stuck in a fence...) , but mooeys have murder in mind and do kill people now and then as you mentioned Mike. Most dangerous of the lot though are flipping white van drivers as Julie discovered - Nice response though Julie 😁
My nearest reservoir (Stithians) is now around 15% capacity I believe so we need rain desperately this winter or next summer we're in big trouble. Plus the hosepipe ban makes bike washing a pain in the backside!
Fantastic ride that - Dartmoor has some superb walks, drives and bike rides, with some of the tracks having real ancient history to them, including the (apparently) haunted corpse or coffin trails. The history of some of these tracks, trails, bridleways and byways can be fascinating.
Oh hello... full suss e-bikes on the shopping list eh? Was the bike you nearly bought in the Helston Giant dealer a full suss e-bike then? 🧐😁 Nothing wrong with e-bikes of any flavour in my book, had a go on a couple myself and they are an absolute hoot!
Good video!
You've not been lucky with sheep then Mick! 🤔😂
I'm not a fan of cows myself, i tend to think that their eyes look far too manic and could charge en masse at any time! 🐄 🐂
@@julie-wheelersatlarge No! Flipping thing had got its head stuck through a fence and I was trying to help it get out and it head butted me right in the unmentionables. That's gratitude for you eh? 🤣 Sheep crack me up though when they want to threaten you - they take a step forward, stamp a front foot and step back again (when they're not stuck in fences they do anyway...) It's quite comical to watch to be honest 😵💫😄
Cows are lovely things, usually docile and very nosy but... they can be aggressive when they've got young'uns about and definitely will charge at people and dogs so it pays to keep an eye on 'em alright!
@@micks61well done for help the sheep though! 😂🤣 I'm giving cows a wide berth. 🐄
Bostin ride fair Play Wheeler’s 👍👍👍😎
What was the name of that van again 🤣🤣🤣👍
Haha! Obviously not a legitimate 'Something and Son' company van... It looked much closer than that from behind. Cheers Peter👍
B@#&#ard! Naughty white van man! 🤣
Would’ve ticked but for two reasons.
1. Editing was ‘sketchy’….as someone who has walked most of the trail you cycled, I found myself almost getting dizzy with how you jumped back and forth along the Burrator to Princetown disused railway track, especially in between Kings Tor,Swelltor Quarry and Ingra Tor (??).
2. As a proud Devonian (and you were in Devon)…it’s always cream first!
Apart from that….it was alright.😂
P.S I did tick the like really 👍🏻
Thanks for the comment... We don't always edit in chronological order because that you might expect us to do 😁🚴👍
Good riding . That van was a prat but they cant wait lol. I go out early just so dont get run over i shouldn't have to tho .
Cheers Rob, the van looked even closer from behind and with so many vehicle on the road it's surprising it doesn't happen more. As you say quiet early morning rides are great.👍
@@WheelersAtLarge yer i got cam it dont show how close it was. Got 35 mile gravel event Sunday ment to rain owell
@@robrobinson420 let's hope the weather people have got it wrong again😆👌 good luck👍
@@WheelersAtLarge no think i take a boat lol . Rather be on 42c tyres than 25c tho in wet . Few years ago was first in mud . Welcome to come to Suffolk for ride sometime
@@robrobinson420 East Anglia has been mentioned so is on the cards...👍
Standard to baa back at a sheep 🐑
Of course! 😜 baaaa 🐑
Wow lovely ride although Imywith Julies on part of that too technical if you’re like me a 🐓
Wow some hills but the views so worth it.
Julie said a bad word 🙉😂 stupid van driver.
Yep Michelle, I said a naughty word! But he was a naughty white van man! 🤬
I was out of my comfort zone with those rocks, i was glad to get back on the tarmac! 👍👌