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Dunwich Dynamo
Now, I know this isn't exactly an Audax ride, but...
Does anybody fancy doing it this year? I'm thinking about it... it's 120 miles, leaving at 8pm on July 20th from Hackney. Once we've got to Dunwich, it's about 100 miles back to Letchworth from there. That could make it into a long night/day ride. One for the slow burners out there with a good set of headlights (oo er).
Any takers?
Does anybody fancy doing it this year? I'm thinking about it... it's 120 miles, leaving at 8pm on July 20th from Hackney. Once we've got to Dunwich, it's about 100 miles back to Letchworth from there. That could make it into a long night/day ride. One for the slow burners out there with a good set of headlights (oo er).
Any takers?
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in the morning i rode from dunwich to stowmarket and caught the train from stowmarket back to cambridge and pedalled home - 160'ish miles in total
i have been thinking about it aswell.................
Shelton
Tim: When do you get your new track bike?
Daniel
You'll be expecting a full moon on July 20th then?
when i signed up for it i thought it would be a very small event but it was over 4000 cyclists.
well staged, roughly half started from crystal palace, and half from alexandra palace. very well signed, good food and drink,
the riding was very stop/start especially in central london - do they really need all those traffic lights?! but the route took us past every landmark you can imagine, and there were some good sections out to the south, and north/west with decent climbs and some fast roads.
overall it was completely mad and very surreal. there are a lot of people in london on a saturday night, an awful lot. cycling down piccadilly was chaos.
with lots of slower riders, drunk pedestrians, street furniture, potholes and cobbles it was like some sort of urban cyclocross (at night)
but there was something very satisfying about bombing round london on a bike at night - at times i felt like a 10 year old kid again for some reason.
wont be signing up for the dunwich dynamo though... one sleepless night on a bike is all i can cope with for a while
took exception to these rat-race London types giving us good natured country bumpkin cyclists a bad name.
Anyway you had to stop, Piccadilly circus at 2 a.m. was, well, like Piccadilly circus if you know what I mean
Phil's 2009 Dunwich Dynamo
Congregate at mine around 4ish for pasta and coffee, leave at 5 down a nice flat route into london (codicote-Welwyn-potters bar-bounds green-hack-er-knee-me-old-mucker), arrive around 7.30-8. Eat something, leave.
Watch the sunrise in dunwich. Eat something, leave.
Back to Letchworth/Herts, sleep. I could even provide cake upon return if required.
Easy as that. No?
Will probably take train from Ashwell to Finsbury park then short ride to start.
Sleep on beach, then ride to nearest station and home.
They do a great cooked breakfast at the beach cafe, opens early especially for the event.
So the options go something like this:
1: "The full English". Meet in Letchworth to leave around 4.30pm, cycle to hackney (probably down codicote road and via potters bar, not the most scenic, but the flattest route), do the dynamo (leaving around 8-9pm), cycle back from the beach after a fry up and a roast dinner and some cake and a portion of chips. Probably around 260 miles or so, expect to be back early eve Sunday.
2: "Eggs Benedict". Meet us in Hackney and ride the rest with us. 220 miles. Easier, and possibly leaving you slightly more civilised looking.
3: "The Continental". Your basic Dunwich Dynamo, no frills, 120 miles followed by a cycle to the nearest station and train back home. One for those who choose a life of luxury over that of hard graft. Expect to return home without having broken into a sweat and having only consumed half a bidon of isotonic sports drink.
Roll up, roll up, who's game?
Unusually for me I'll be doing an afternoon ride on the Sunday, so sounds like i could head out East and find you guys, and tow you home.
Daniel