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Pottsie’s BIG award - This year at the annual “BashOscar's” John “Pottsie” Potts was awarded a prestigious enormous “ Lifetime achievement” award for his services to the bash. Over 16 years agoPottsie had the revolutionary idea of combining beer drinking and cyclingtogether to form the “Teign Valley Peddle Bashers” and the rest is history.Under his watchfulgaze, strategic plan-ning and bugle blow-ing a club like noother developed pro-viding a sanctuaryfor all the local “oddbod’s” to meet, formfriendships and havefun whilst keeping fitand supporting thelocal brewery estab-lishments!. Duringthis time the bashhas seen manybashers coming and going often returning during times of need. Manyrelationships have developed during these years blossoming into rawpassion, marriage, affairs and divorce!!! Many long lasting friendshipshave been formed, hospital visits and injury discussions had and bike re-pairs performed. The bash has seen and embraced the massive techno-logical cycling transformation which has taken place extending the cyclingexperience from tarmac to rough terrain. This has allowed new clubs toemerge with a variety of cycling trips and holidays to satisfy these newcycling and adrenaline requirements, with bashers being encouraged topush themselves to new limits of endurance and experiences.The bash has many behind the scene workers that without which the itwould not survive. However all groups need an exceptional figure headand role model to lead with style, motivation and grace - that we certainlyhave with ............................. POTTSIE!!!!!!!!


Christmas Bash:The annual bash Christmas bash took place onan icy cold but dry Sunday morning at the Starcross fishing and cruisingclub. A motley group of bashers congregatedin a variety of disguises ranging from the sim-

ple to the in-tricate to theplain stupidwith the soleaim of circum-navigating aset course on2 wheels un-der the influenceof mulled wineand mince pies.Inset into the

ride was a variety of festive watering stations.To add culture and sophistication to a usual un-

cultured daya group oftheatricalmindedbashers per-formed aplay whichunfolded asthe cycleprogressedat various

watering holes (no-one’s really sure what it wasabout but we all enjoyed it, especially the finalewhich saw tripee publicly being lanced byShinpad’s silver weapon on the Dawlish band-stand!).The entertainment continued with the bashersdevouring a scrumptious Christmas dinnerwashed down with copious amounts of fluidthen worked off by bopping away to a live banduntil the early hours of the evening! As usual agreat start to the festive period


Christmas Bash 2009


Bobbiball’s weekend - Exford 2010 - what a result this year it ac-tually happened!!!!! 47 on and off road cycling bashers descended on thequiet village of Exford in Exmoor for the annual Bobbiball festival! With 32in the hostel and 14 in camper vans it waspossibly the biggest bobbiball fest ever! Asusual with a hard ride planned on SaturdayFriday night was “party” night! With copious

amounts of alcoholbeing consumedthere was dancingand frivolities till theearly hours withSpoons defiantly having a smashing time!. Withgood weather on Saturday V2, Mayhem & Snakeyhad organised a great cross country ride meetingup with the roadies for soup and beer halfwayround (at the lowest point of the ride!!). Some re-turned to the hos-tel using the upliftprovided whilstothers slogged

back up the hill on & off road congregateback at Exford either in the local pub towatch the rugby or some even slept offthe previous evenings excesses's!. TheSaturday evening was a more sedateaffair involving conversation and alcoholin moderate amounts!. Sunday wasovercast, cold and misty, Gary Litter organised a shocking Off road ride!!!! Involving an uphill off road slog in ankle deep muddy fields! Its re-deeming features were watching Stonewall hilariously careering down amuddy cow shitty slippery field managed to stay upright on his bike usingextreme skill (or just luck) much to the disappointment of all watching! Al-so seeing (as I walked down!!) bashers crazily cycling over the lip of thesteepest field descent possible was also a sight to be remembered! Buck-tu produced an amazing cooking effort actually managing to provideenough tasty food to feed all these bashers (especially as we had ingleand an arkle in our ranks!). With 5 new guest bashers and the return ofold bashers Bobbiball festival 2010 was a great success - look out for thedetails of Bobbiball fest 2011!! And from me a big thank-you to all whochipped in to replace the broken glasses and for the lovely orchid


Bashers that are Crashers - Ice 3 Bash-ers 0 is the score for winter!! The ice caughtout at least 3 bashers that I am aware of.Tonto and Fallen Man both succumbed tothe effects of Ice on the Christmas bash sus-taining minor scuffs. Bothways hit a patch ofice on a Thursday ride causing her to fall/slidoff the bike sustaining a large heamotoma(bruise to the non medical people) to herthigh/elbow and hand. Whilst Brandon andlee helped her up Lee also sustained an in-jury break his finger nail in the process!!!

Love is in the air!!!! With Valentines day just passing are the bashersbecoming a romantic bunch of people? It appears that there is defiantlyromance in the air!!!! But what does the kissing style say about them?

Lust - the Stolen kiss - quick no-oneis looking!!Best Friends - The Sloppy Kiss -but don’t smear the make up!!

The serious kiss - wait till I getyou home!!

Forbiddenlove -But Fatheris just hap-py that he’sstill youngenough topull!!

Thought for the day:

Life is like a roll of toi-let paper.

The closer it gets tothe end, the faster itgoes.


Bash “Oscars” 2009: These prestigious ticket only awards were heldat the Abbrook Centre in Kingsteignton. A Posh affair with roast dinnerand entertainment laid on prior to the cere-mony its very similar to the Oscars but on aslightly lower budget! This year we weresubjected to the musical talents of Sticky,Noddy and Pottsie on their wind instru-ments! Although not quite ready to auditionfor Britain’s got talent it was a good effort(although I must admit to envying the peo-ple with hearing aids that could turn them

off!!!!) Theawards ransmoothly with the thank-you speecheslimited to a few words- ”Thank-you”, therewere interludes between awards withPottsie and his band of jokers reciting var-ious stories to keep the crowd amused.Bashers honoured included-Tripee for hisride organising, Fallen women and Truck-er for their amazing drinking abilities, Satnav and DVD as new bashers (hopefully

they will till be here next year!), Pott-sie for re breaking his leg, RJ’s minitour, Bothways for cycling aroundCanada and slimmer of the year, Al-ways for his poor bike maintenance,Ingle for his eating abilities, Unda forlosing his previous award, brokenman for being the bash beast, buck-tu for all his catering efforts and

Mash for a disastrousride.Special awards were pre-sented to Beano for his amaz-ing sore arse experience,Sticky for being the bashwomaniser and bobbiball forbeing the loser of the yearwith Flossie and Blaster re-ceiving the tandem award


Is Aunt Sally a Fraud?- Has aunt sally finally been found out? Is hereally an ace bike maintenance man? Or doe’s he secretly take the bikesto Partridges for repair?. Why are these questions even being askedabout one of our best loved bashers? - well apparently on a recent bashride he was heard to ask Pottsie for a lift home (and seen to get in thecar) as he could not repair even his own puncture!! AUNT SALLY COMECLEAN WITH THE TRUTH NOW - DO YOU REALLY REPAIR ALL OURBIKES?

Are Ingle and Aunt Sally really just bashers or do they lead a se-cret crime bashing second life as Batman and Robin? This recentpicture suggests that the two may hold a similar resemblance tothe crime stopping super hero's

A date for your diary - here is thebirdseye challenge for April - any offroaders up for a little jaunt a cross theDevon country side? Then think aboutthe Devon Dirt. Its a fun (and it is as Idid it last year) 50km off road ride cov-ering tracks, lanes and moors not tootechnical. Its supported by both BigPeaks and the CTC. With an £8:00entry fee (£4:00 for the OAP’s) itsgreat value including loads of refresh-ments, cakes, and goodies. Have alook on www.devondirt.co.uk - youcan register on the day


Bobbiballs secret to eternalyouth revealed -Bobbiball has finally comeclean on how he maintains abody of such physical perfec-tion and fitness for bashing. Headmits to rarely eating his 5fruit and vegetables a day, eat-ing as much junk food as hecan and consuming copiousamounts of real ale and red-wine per night.

After a recent visit to a Paignton BrothelBobbiball was given £1000 pounds onleaving, he was very happy with thismoney making scheme so he tried againthe next night with the same result. Onhis third visit he left with nothing. Disap-pointed he asked the manager what hehad done wrong he was told “Oh sorry sirwere not televising tonight”!


Did you know:2007 was the Chinese year of the chicken and Bird flupandemic devastates Asia2008 was the Chinese year of the horse and eqine influen-za decimates Australian racing2009 was the year of the pig and the swine flu pandemiccaused chaos2010 is the Chinese year of the Cock....what could we pos-sibly be worried about this year?!!!Breaking news - the Isle ofdogs banking system has col-lapsed. They’ve called in theretrievers!

Amazing medical facts:It takes your food seven seconds to get fromyour mouth to your stomach. One human hair can support 3 kg (6.6 lb)..The average man's penis is three times thelength of his thumb.Human thighbones are stronger than con-crete.A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.There are about one trillion bacteria on eachof your feet..Women blink twice as often as men..The average person's skin weighs twice asmuch as the brain. Your body uses 300 muscles to balance it-self when you are standing still.If saliva cannot dissolve something, you can-not taste it.Women reading this will be finished now.

Men are still busy checking theirthumbs!!!!!!

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