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Here are some of the comments you have sent in after reading our web pages. If you'd like to add your own comments, just fill out one of the forms at the end of your favourite report page!

Richard Sudworth. 6 March 2007. Summer Tour 1991
I went on this tour!!! It's really cool to see these old pictures and read about the junior tour. If Mike is about please say hi from me, i would love to catch up. I had a great time on these junior tours.
Please put up the photos from the next couple (Yorkshire and Scotland) as soon as possible, I can help out with my own pictures if you like. My mum dug them out the other day and I used them to embarrass my friend Ben at his wedding.

Roxanne Hobday. 15 January 2007. Archive 1991
Brings back memories, good times. My sisters look tiny bless

Thain Hatherly. 21 December 2006. Feedback

Dear Michael,

As you know, Zoe found your CTC website recently; she also mailed the link to Luke and to me. I had a quick preliminary browse at some of the 1991 ride reports and was delighted to read again about some of the rides Luke and Zoe went on. Thought I must congratulate you on all the effort you've put into this very comprehensive record of an active and well-attended CTC group. It was a real pleasure to read your perceptive, entertaining and witty descriptions.

In fact, reflecting on it afterwards, I was thinking gratefully what a lot of safe, sensible and healthy adventure and challenge you enabled for youngsters (and some rather older strays) in the South Dartmoor area. So thanks very much, rather belatedly, for what you did for my children and many others (Tini, Seb etc)!

Happy Christmas and best wishes from

Thain Hatherly.

Eveline Lessware. 13 December 2006. Feedback
The Lesswares and the Widgers have relished browsing through so many great memories. Thank you Michael, a reminder of the sweet old days! You deserve an OBE for your magnificent work with those generations of young people.

Zoe Hatherly. 13 December 2006. Archive 1991
Michael, these are hilarious! I accidentally chanced upon them whilst searching for something else on the internet - Luke seems to feature in so many of them, what a surprise!! You might be interested to know that I have turned out into a pretty keen cyclist, did the Lands End to John O'Groats in 2004! I have sent the weblink to Luke and also mum & dad. You might also be interested & perhaps surprised to learn that Luke is a father himself now! One daughter called Minnie, almost 2, and a son called Nate born just over a month ago.

Hope all is well with you.

Zoe

Seb Lessware. 12 December 2006. Archive 1991
Ahh, great days! Seems like it used to rain a lot more then as well. How are you mr Jones? We (Wife plus 9 month old daughter) are well. Looking forward to the 1992 archive with more gems of great sarcasm.

Have a great Christmas, warm regards,

Seb

Diana Andrews (Rushworth). 10 December 2006. Summer tour 1991
Thank you so much for the entertaining reviews - I have read them with great pleasure. It is nice to know (finally) what Martin & Peter did on their trips. What wonderful experiences you gave them. Thank you for all your time and effort you put into the club. The boys both still enjoy cycling, though it never rubbed off on Amy! She hates bikes with a passion.

Tom Widger. 9 December 2006. Archive 1991
Dear Michael,

Thanks very much for taking the time and effort to post these reports - they are truly remarkable! Reading them has brought back lots of fantastic memories of long rides and good fun around the South Hams and Dartmoor, including the "helmet" incident!

I eagerly await more reports and photos!

Alex Lessware. 9 December 2006. Archive 1991
Hi Michael,

Very enjoyable - i'd love to see anything you've got on the following years (1992/3).

Hope you are doing well, and ther rides are as popular as ever.

Cheers,

Alex

Arthur Caulfield. 8 December 2006. 1991 Summer Tour
Great surprise. (I google my name every few years.) I loved those tours. Well, the two before the bad one. The pictures of the scenery spark no memories. I remember 'events' and hostels. The words spark mermories almost without fail. That evening of bugging the gamers was my favourite time. It's great to have the pictures. I'm glad to be reminded of my old...self. Thanks!

Martin Hills. 30 November 2006. Archive 1991
This is so much fun Mike - all the "old boys" are getting a lot of memories from these - I know that Dayle, Peter and Jules are all reading extensively in different parts of the country! We are all riding again these days - so this is great motivation!

Mark Hedges. 23 November 2006. Feedback
Hello Michael Jones,
I have browsed through the web site for ages reliving all of the good times.
I certainly appreciate all your efforts, more this time round as an adult with 2 little children of my own. I got the link from Peter Rushworth who is still very much into mountain biking. I am more into the kind with stabilisers these days! I hope you are well. The web site is an amazing record. I am very impressed. Hope to see you some time when I am back in Devon.
Mark Hedges

Peter Rushworth. 23 November 2006. Archive 1990
Hi Michael, words cannot express how surreal it is to suddenly find a significant part of my teenage years suddenly appear on the internet unexpectedly (I had thought it would have been long enough ago to escape the terrors of the digital age).

I have just spent all day annoying my co-workers with sudden outbursts of laughter and shouts of "OH YES! that was when my brother went to hospital in a helicopter", "look at Martins funny tights" and "NO LISTEN: he swam all the way to this rock and on the way back he was shouting about a mermaid and someone screamed out...".

This truly is a work of comedy for those who participated - knowing all the stories behind the deadpan delivery of the ride reports has me in tears (of laughter - except where there are photos of me those bits aren't so funny). I'm only half way through 1990 at the moment and I have to take a break or I may injure myself.

This is a great effort on your part to make this available - thank you for all your time and care (including all the original report writing which is worth pure gold when deployed like this). It really feels like it all happened yesterday - a very strange sensation. So many of the incidents I had totally forgotten about, reading the reports I get the feeling that something extraordinary happened on most rides - do you get that impression or is it just some function of reading them all together so quickly I wonder?

I shall be looking through the more recent reports and attempting to spot the modern day equivalents of Dayle G, Andrew Simmonds, Mark Hedges, Martin Hills and myself (the sensible, careful, responsible one - that one should be easy to spot).

This has been greatly enjoyed by indirect participants too - my sister and mother had a lot of fun (an understatement) reading them all and both had many many questions and points they wanted me to clarify.....

The pictures in particular are priceless (as you might guess) I think I might have to invest in a film scanner.

Once more - thanks for this and please please put as much as possible online! Easy to say though i'm sure there is a lot of work involved - is there any useful "grunt work" that I can do - i'm guessing not as most of the time is spent in the fiddly parts with this kind of thing. Let me know if there is.

Martin Hills. 28 October 2006. Archive 1990
Mike - this rocks - me and Jules are looking at this wetting ourselves! More, more, MORE!

Simon Hopper. 10 August 2006. Archive 1990
Nostalgia central! It all brought back memories of teenhood, pedals and cream teas. I may be bearded and a bit weightier now, but I'm still cycling. Indeed, I organised an all-night midsummers ride last year with some friends in Cardiff and hopefully I should be doing a very South Dartmoor style tour, again with some friends, at the beginning of September using the Balmoral steamer to get from Penarth to Ilfracombe to do the Devon Coast to Coast.

Neil Allan. 3 July 2006. Feedback
Michael,

thanks for contacting me via FriendsReunited - what a blast from the past!

great to see such a fantastic site, and reading the reports and photos brought back so many memories.

We moved down to Cornwall a year ago, and there have been SO MANY times that we've been exploring somewhere new for the first time, and I've proudly announced to my wife "I've been here on my bike!"

The CTC tours were a fantastic part of my youth, and I'm so glad to see such an active group! It's given me enough of a kick up the backside to almost dust off the old saddle....

p.s. Fantastic site - obviously a lot of love and attention (and hard work!) has gone into it.

all the best for you and the club in the future.

kind regards,

Neil Allan (no longer 13 - now a scary 30!) Cornwall.

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