• firstly, if you want to go and experience uninterrupted 'peacefulness' with only a handful of friends, then no one is stopping you riding on the same route, on any of the other 364 days that are left in the year with your hand picked nearest and dearest. you fail here because you fail to recognise this as personal preference that does not reflect the interests of most of the riders that join in on the dynamo. and it is the majority of riders that make the dynamo.. the dynamo.

    And of course the majority of riders are what make the dynamo very different from what it used to be.
    Besides, if you pay attention to what has gone upthread, you'll glean that the dynamo has changed from what it used to be when there were less riders and it isn't a great stretch of the imagination to suggest that what you may enjoy about it now may be lost if the numbers of riders were to triple or quadruple, such as they have over the past 5/6 years.
    I'm also aware that it can be ridden on other nights of the year, even to the extent that I have mentioned it upthread with the qualification that it would be for those wanting to recreate the feel of dynamo of years long since passed.
    Therefore not fail.

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