2010-07-24 - Dunwich Dynamo DD18

why would you want to spread the load and thin the numbers out? what would that do? apart from dilute every aspect of it. if anything, we are safer in high volume - from the drunks, the chavs and the crazy cars.. all of which are really a tiny weeny spec on the whole event.

Double Fail

Fail the first: The volumes of riders out there now have diluted the sense of being out there on your own, the peacefulness of the night uninterupted by nothing more than the occaisional lone soul in a car on their own voyage and a handful of friends to keep you company. It's a different experience and one i think is worth trying.

Fail the second. Security through obscurity is a false notion. For example, in the second year that I did DD, there was an unpleasant moment when a couple of cars full of drunken idiots drove along the line of riders swerving and harrassing them. Safety to suggest that they were probably attracted by the number of riders on the road and put a large volume of them at risk. On the audax rides that I've done through the night, I've attracted more goodwill than bad as a solo rider, even from "chavvy", drunken petrolheads. Even out in a group of about 15 on the Solstice Ride we attracted far less attention than I have on DD. As for my own personal safety, beyond the M11, I've felt more at risk from other riders than I have from drivers and other members of the public.