Dunwich Dynamo 2017

Maybe I'm an old fart but I can't imagine checking my WhatsApp in the middle of such a stripped back ride. Half the fun is not knowing what's happening next. Weather? Gravel? Food? Moonlight? Bats? Tea? Daybreak? The beach? Wow! I did it!

I did a smile reading that^. Absolutely, but each to their own. I might be tempted to check just at the early pub stops to see where people are at.

Fucking hell, that gravel! What a treat that was...

It's just adds another layer of enjoyment seeing how the ride was going for other people. No different for me from uploading the ride to Strava so that I can enjoy seeing how far the ride looks on a map.

In, as long as not on the same route

Will be riding gears though

Planning to bring the tandem along. Every ride needs more tandem/cowbell!

I'm in but going to find an alternative to the dreaded coaches

Likewise. Probably ride back to a more appropriate station. I think someone mentioned Stowmarket as an option?

PROTIP: Swim in the sea, you will not regret it!

100 miles a week is a LOT! More than enough prep for a comfortable DD

@Crispin_Glover cheers. I might be up for something other than "the dreaded coaches". What are you thinking of, a van or something? Maybe with a few others we could chip in and good to hear 100miles is a lot.

What's so bad about the coaches? Planning on doing it this year but have to admit the coaches put me off a bit.

Got the coach back from the BHF London- Brighton a few years back and that wasn't tooo bad.

I can't sleep on coaches so I'm fucked and uncomfortably dozy for 2/3 hours, they take forever to get back to London, the last two years we've been waiting in the blazing sun in a car park for ages for the bikes to turn up. They provide a good and essential service for the money (especially at the early bird rate) but if I can organise something myself that means I can get back early enough to spend some time with the wife and kid then I'm going to give it a go.

Diss should be better, I think. Same distance from the beach, and is on the fast line from Norwich to London, which is the service you would change onto at Ipswich. Pretty sure it doesn't stop at Stowmarket

Yeh. Just me being an old fart. I had a mobile phone. In 1984. Tried it. Said they'd never ever catch on. Mind you. I did have the battery pack over one shoulder and the base unit with coiled cable connected handset on the other shoulder.

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Hmmm, looks like I may be doing the Dynamo after a 25 mile TT on Saturday afternoon. Still, I like a challenge.

every year I look at this thread and think...maybe this year but normally my own lazyness means I never do it. (not counting the year I drove as support vehicle for forumengers) there is a renewed energy in me that this year is going to be including getting healthy so this is actually a good target for that. as I am not in London aside for work I am going to have to badger everyone I know to go as 'ride/sharing transport back to Kent' buddies.

I might ask lots of stupid noobie questions as I have only done one night ride before and I sucked at it.

Greater Anglia put a bunch of restrictions on the trains these days. I don't think any bikes can get on except for Ipswich.

@hamrack Stowmarket is also on the Diss and Ipswich line, the main train to Norwich does stop there I think... It's my station for heading back to my parent's place for country weekends.

I've even got a nice quiet route from Stowmarket to Dunwich that I can share and you could reverse somewhere.

Diss and Stowmarket are both on the Norwich-Liverpool St line, but not all trains stop there.

Either way, you have to book a space for your bike on some services even at normal times and as Backstop says, Greater Anglia do have special conditions during the DD: they lay-on extra services or ban bikes altogether as the fancy takes them.

So anyone planning on getting the train back, should hold-fire until they've announced what they'll be doing.

I've ridden the 30 odd miles back to Ipswich, then got a train to Cambridge, before getting on one to bishops Stortford.....it sounds convoluted, but it's easy.

The route to Stowmarket is very nice, nicer than to Ipswich. I went from there to Cambridge last year, but had the luxury of waiting until Monday...

I'd be interested to see that....it is horrible to Ipswich....

I dunno if I have it mapped or anything, I think it was fairly self-evident. Will have a look though.

I'm in. Been wanting to do this for the last three years but have had a wedding or stag do each time, but not this year.