Several important decisions were taken at this year's AGM. Michael continues as Section Secretary, with Joe elected as Section Delegate. Keir will be Publicity Officer and will be targeting cycle shops, local poster locations and local newspapers with as much publicity material as he can manage. Additionally Keir will be working with all regular Section members to recruit by word of mouth, and both Joe and Keir will be in charge of making new members welcome on rides. There will be a Christmas Lunch ride this year that will be open to all members past and present.

The social programme will be based at Crofters but will include trips out for cinema, bowling, badminton or swimming from time to time, usually arranged a week beforehand - check the online activities list a few days before each social to see whether a special event is planned. There will be a junior introductory tour over the Easter bank holiday weekend in 2006 to the Somerset Levels and the Quantocks, which we hope will appeal to many of our riders, and hopefully a longer tour to Scotland over the summer holidays averaging 35-40mpd. There will also be youth hostel weekends to Salcombe and Bellever over the summer, and our Ten Tors event with certificates in June or July. Regular club members will be encouraged to contribute ride reports whenever they would like to do so.

Several multi-player network games provided the entertainment for this evening's social.

The forecast was for rain but as we set out from the start the sky was just cloudy. We nearly got to Dartington before the rain set in, but when the youngsters were given a choice about heading back or going on to complete the loop, everyone wanted to go on!

There were short breaks in the rain, but it was tipping down for the return journey through the lanes from Staverton and some of the youngsters may have been wondering why they voted to go on! Everyone did well, including new rider Osian, and the afternoon social at Crofters helped to make up for what had turned out to be a very wet morning of cycling.

An evening of frantic computer gaming kept us very well entertained.

This morning's ride took us along the old Ashburton road, then through Ashburton and Rew to the woodland track that follows the river Ashburn back towards Ashburton. The main path provided plenty of fun for everyone, but when we took up Joe's suggestion of crossing the lane and continuing along the field, Nick was not quite so amused: thick mud hampered our progress over the style half-way along and clogged everyone's brakes by the time we reached the road!

To finish the ride on a dryer note we rode through River Dart Adventures and on through Holne Woods, following the woodland path up towards Gallant Le Bower. From there the Slalom track through Hembury proved irresistible. Nick and Donald were both impressed with the track, although Nick's stated aim of staying close behind his son proved difficult to make a reality!

Keir was delayed by the A38 road works so our planned badminton game was replaced with a games social at Crofters.

The bad weather this morning persuaded us to arrange a social in place of the advertised ride.

Another evening of computer games kept everyone very happy.