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Fair play. Last year I saw a family with their two teenage kids riding. No show this year. What an awesome experience at that age. Bloody long way for a 14 year old.
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I saw that guy! We were commenting on how he was carrying 30kg of useless steel..
He had his bike nicked?? That sucks major balls. One for the stolen list?
That would have been Gerald off YACF forum
Pic courtesy of Wobbly John
Gutted I couldn't make it, still too sore from road rash and bruising after coming off last week.
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Want to remember to do it next year!
Hah! I'm in that photo!
Not met many of you guys in the flesh - think I kept drifting in and out of your group, though, bunch of guys on fixed wheels and some faces that seemed kinda familiar that I thought must be from here...
Was running geared with some fat lights I borrowed from a friend - made for some very fun fast descents in the dark with the lights blazing, but I still don't have the knack of climbing on the geared bike, can't seem to get quite as nice a rhythm as I can fixed.
Had a shower and went and sat in the pub with a friend trying to stay awake until a reasonable bedtime so that my bodyclock isn't too fucked up. Now feel like a zombie! So hitting the hay.
Good riding all!
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...Thanks to Hippy and Jonny for he regular toes, Thanks to evyone for the chat. seeyou all soon.
good write up hippy and cool pics tommy. tommy, i too would need other people's toes if i were to cycle that far in the dark ;)
well done everyone. fixed or not, that's an epic ride for anyone. good to hear there were no mishaps.
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Nobody notice a girl directing people in from the bottom of the hill, into the feeding station, then helping feed/water the masses? It was she that cycled ahead and put out all the candles, then held back after the feeding station, to make sure that stragglers were pointed in the right direction. That's 2 London-to-Dunwich rides for her in back-to-back weekends.
She was wearing a head-light, and was dancing round in the road, trying to stop fast flying folk from missing nosh and bevs.
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Totally amazing ride, but so completely and utterly different from last year. Hardest part once again though was the last 10 miles before the feed stop.
Developed various aches and pains everywhere over the 11 hours, but was very happy that the legs/lungs didn't blow up, especially seeing as my previous longest ride this year was Cambridge a couple of months ago.
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What a brilliant, brilliant couple of days out. Good riding by the Hipeleton. Fuck Yeh!
Huge thanks to Sam and Brett who stayed behind en extra 10 minutes at the feed station and attempted to relay me back to the main group.
Good fun riding with Jacqui and Moose (sorry Jacqui about my crap mileage estimates) but the thing that will stay with me most after that ride is hearing Jacqui's "War Cry" as we turned a corner a come across yet another long ascent on shattered legs. If I was that hill I would have flattened the fuck out after hearing that. Or surrendered. Or both.
Brilliant hanging out with Stompy, hillbilly, MA3K, Corny, The Brick, Aussie forumengers, et al. afterwards. Many, many, many rocks were thrown.
One large recovery burrito, a couple of beers, 11 hours sleep and a slow spin to the office this morning and I feel fine. Recovery burritos are the key. As messed up as this sounds, I'm looking forward to next year.
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Nobody notice a girl directing people in from the bottom of the hill, into the feeding station, then helping feed/water the masses? It was she that cycled ahead and put out all the candles, then held back after the feeding station, to make sure that stragglers were pointed in the right direction. That's 2 London-to-Dunwich rides for her in back-to-back weekends.
Might have seen her helping at the feed stop (skinny, big hair?), definitely saw the candles though, and they were brilliant when we weren't too sure about the route.
Huge thanks to her and the other people working the feed station... I think most of us were a bit too zonked to appreciate it at the time.
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Congratulations to all of you! Bumped into a couple of people who'd just woken up, post Dunwich, in the pub last night. I managed two days of the Country Fair and I feel broken.
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Absolutely gutted to have missed this. This has to be the only time I've sat outside a lovely Cotswold Pub enjoying fine local beer and wishing that I was sober in Epping.
Next year, there and back, on fixed.
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Well done all you guys that actually finished. The fear of a massive calf-cramp in the middle of nowhere ended up keeping me from getting back on after the feeding station.
HUGE thanks to Corny for rolling with me in my hour of need while my calves felt like they were about to explode.
I'm looking forward to training on some long rides and doing it 'proper' next year. Annoying thing was that I still felt pretty good at half way, climbing was getting hard but I wasn't really all that tired I just had fucked calves. More fluid and salt next time!
Well done everyone!
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Great effort lads and ladies, it looked a great ride. I am there next year without fail!
It's depressing having missed it, but to console myself i pushed myself in other areas at a festival.. physically weaker but spiritually stronger ;)
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Well done all you guys that actually finished. The fear of a massive calf-cramp in the middle of nowhere ended up keeping me from getting back on after the feeding station.
HUGE thanks to Corny for rolling with me in my hour of need while my calves felt like they were about to explode.
I'm looking forward to training on some long rides and doing it 'proper' next year. Annoying thing was that I still felt pretty good at half way, climbing was getting hard but I wasn't really all that tired I just had fucked calves. More fluid and salt next time!
Well done everyone!
True dat.
Maximum Respekt.
Safe blaaaad.
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After recovery Belgian beers and movies last night.. I managed to fall asleep on Central Line this morning and wake up at Mile End.. then got on District back the other direction instead of Central! Duh. Anyway 11am I've finally made it to work. The legs are tired for sure and I've got my left achillies overuse pain back but this will all subside.
The only problem? Now I have to do a 200 mile ride.. ;)
Aroo: "hearing Jacqui's "War Cry" as we turned a corner a come across yet another long ascent on shattered legs"
haha.. sounds like Sam and I riding back to Ipswich.. "thought you said these were pancake flat?!", "another fucking hill", "this is the highest fucking place in suffolk for fuck's sake!!"
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That was the single longest ride I've ever done, and it was a real experience doing it fixed... one of us on riding 46x18 the other 46x18 in just over 7 hours.
If anyone's interested in some truly geeky stats, this will be up for a short period:
http://utrack.crempa.net/report/saved_report.php?ident=2b4b2dfa790a44715a1b5554a2f6418b&lang=enHope no one got offended by the site of 2 riders rubbing volterol into some special places at the side of the road in Needham Market :)
Well done to everyone...
hippy
Dylanshighheels
Fixedwheelnut
BoBoB
h2o
|³|MA3K
Roberto
town
fatboyralph
GA2G
brett
Aroogah
finsbury_pete
snowy_again
The_Seldom_Killer
brain-flick
Greasy_Slag
Beckton_Man_Dem
Sam
stompy
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Dunwich Dynamo 2008
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cheers all - few ciders in the morning a bit of sun on the beach was brilliant. buses going the wrong way to drop off point and scrabbling to find bike worst part. everything else great. (stat's = approx 1034m ascent, 6400kcal,8hrs,3powerbars,4bulmers,2fosters,1 x ful english & two bottles of red...to date). also found out that no matter how many LEDs you strap to your bike (24in total) it doesn't equal good battery pack lights!