2009-07-04 Sat - Dunwich Dynamo 2009

Damn....sorry....didn't realise it was THAT long :)

Nothing wrong with that--some things just have to be done properly!

Excellent report, and chapeau for such an epic ride! Blimey, those Garmins aren't all they're cracked up to be, are they?

Hopefully this report won't bore you too much. :)

Quite the opposite.

Tricity takes one mouthful and says "this is beef"...yup, sure enough they'd made her a beef lasagne instead...

Euurrgh.

Eventually the sun comes up and we realise just how long it's taking us, and we're still miles away from dunwich...we start to notice signs saying IPSWITCH...err....ok, maybe it's pointing out the way towards the motorway that leads you to ipswitch? WRONG....we're in fucking IPSWITCH!!!
It's at this point that we realise that the person who uploaded this GPX route onto the worldwide web had actually just recorded his ride on the Dunwich dynamo (including his mistakes) and so we were now following it. We decide it's best to just carry on following his route as by that point we were heading back towards Dunwich....we then rejoin the same road where his detour started litterally 5 miles further along, having just added a good 15 miles to our total. :(

That is a real hazard--I think I looked at three supposed DD routes before the DD this year, and they were all wrong, some more so, some less. Bad luck that you picked one that veered all the way to Ipswich.

Eventually we get to Dunwich...about 13.5hrs after setting off...not very good, but we remind ourselves that we had just ridden there 6 days previous and then don't feel quite so bad.

The cafe of course isn't open as it's too early, neither is anywhere else.

At what time did you actually get to Dunwich, then?

We end up on the narrowest 'A' road ever, with a 50mph limit, and a traffic jam of cars backed up behind us...fuck this!

The A12 (it has some narrow bits, e.g. where it goes through Yoxford)?

We eventually arrive at Framlingham (i think?) where we get some proper food, attempt to stock up for the rest of the ride home...Tricity goes to the co-op first where i watch the bikes...about 25 mins later she comes back looking really pissed off...i ask what's up...she replies "they wouldn't fucking serve me cigarettes!...they asked for my ID and then wouldn't accept it"....pretty good for someone who's almost 24 :)

Er? This seems bizarre, but it's pretty funny at the same time. :)

As flat as the Dynamo is supposed to be...those 'rolling hills' are a killer on tired legs.
The hill out of sudbury that nearly killed me on the way down it 2 years ago in the rain is a damn good hill to ride back up...if you're perverted enough to like climbing :)

Surprisingly even gradient, even if it does go on for a bit.

Due to all the detours and problems, and stops, we ended up riding a total of at least 260 miles

Can't wait for the next epic ride!

Brilliant stuff. That's 430 kilometres. You've just done a 400 and then some. Off you go to join AUK and start training for an SR series and then PBP and LEL. :)