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@Archie's_Grobags
Hot baked beans and sausages from my flask at the feed station was the best thing ever...once that kicked in about ten miles past the feed station i felt so good.
Was so happy with my bike setup...all my bags worked great, especially happy with the huge saddle bag which remained stable the whole way and held all my spare clothes and my flask, mini D, wet wipes, etc...it was so good changing into dry clothes at Dunwich...thankful for my mudguards...only failure was my front brake...i was too bloody embarrased to use it cos it was so noisy due to the paint not being rubbed off the rims yet :) so basically rode it brakeless again.
I f*cking LOVE the SIS energy gels too...they kept me going so well, and taste so good.
It was hilarious to finally get Tricity Bendix to try one later in the ride and see the results when it kicked in...like an 8 yr old on smarties...we were drunk on energy gels at that point and talking shit really kept us going :)
Oh and the Garmin...it was great to turn it on 20 miles into the ride only to find that the route that Object said he had saved on it that morning wasn't on there... "you have NO saved rides"....that was a fun moment! :)
It then died about 5 miles into our return journey home leaving us with no way to navigate as we weren't doing the same route back, so myself and Tricity Bendix ended up riding back towards Dunwich and got the train from Darsham....only managed about 135 miles in total :( next year though :)
Quite funny too to see about 20 bikers storm the two carriage train at Darsham, only to have the conductor go crazy, stop the train at the next station and refuse to continue until enough bikes and riders got off, then see a female member of the public on the train go nuts and start taking peoples bikes off herself after giving a big speech about how selfish we all were and saying "for fucks sake, get on your bikes and ride them"...yeah, all the way back to London luv? I felt really bad for the people she ejected at that station who had a two hour wait for the next train and would have had the same problem again :(
It was great riding with Tricity Bendix and Davey C all the way, also Fred for quite a bit of it too.
@Tricity...next time we take a spare brake bolt so you don't need to ride brakeless on 48 x 16 and use the bushes in the ditch as a stopping method :)
Thanks to the guy on the Cervelo who very kindly butchered his rear brake to allow Tricity to ride the rest of the route safely.
All in, a really good DD again.
*note to self...only sleeping for 3 hours the night before the DD is NOT a good idea..neither is deciding to completely remake the saddle bag on the morning of the DD and not finishing it until the afternoon, then going out to find a flask, a new chain etc....then coming back and deciding what i'm gonna wear and take late afternoon, and finally realise about an hour before it's time to go that i haven't eaten a proper meal or made any food to take....rushing round doing all that while everyone else is dressed and ready to go was far too stressful :) *