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Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:55 |
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The Axe Valley Pedallers have just held their first ‘Tweed Run’. A cycling event of an informal nature, yet traditional style, where cyclists gathered, cycled a short distance and then settled down to enjoy a cream tea together on a sunny English Spring day.
Sebastian Cope the Charity Officer for Axe Valley Pedallers, is raising funds for Headway Devon and came up with the idea of the Tweed Run as a way of collecting sponsorship and also to encourage cyclists to doff their lycra and don their tweed.
It was a great fun day with a gathering of 20 tweed clad people from all over the area, including 5 from Chard and 3 all the way from Plymouth! The bikes were just as interesting as the riders, with some of the old treasured bicycles emerging from storage, including several fixed wheel bikes and a (modern) Penny Farthing that proved a tad challenging on our rolling hills.
Liddons Dairy Tea Rooms made a fine destination for the tea stop, with the only challenge of the day coming not from cycling, but breaking up a very enjoyable social occasion.
Axe Valley Pedallers intends to make the Tweed Run and annual event and in addition arrange more weekend cycling meets of a
similar social nature this summer.
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