Dunwich Dynamo

Cheers Steff for those points, good advice. I would say though that fitness is a *little *bit important!

Aye, I was overdoing that point a bit rhetorically because a lot of people seem to think it's a race and are put off because they don't think they're fit enough. If portly chaps on dual-sus mountain bikes can do it (and they do) there's no reason to be intimidated. IIRC a girl who worked at Bikefix did it a couple of years on a huge cargo bike.