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Year before last I rode it way too fast (7h15) and got to the beach before the cafe opened. That was not a problem really - there were about six of us there and we only had to wait a little while for the staff to open up and grumble at us about having turned up too early. Speed had made the food stop really easy, as there was no queue, and it was good fun trying (and failing by a small margin) to catch the lead riders, whose rear lights we had spotted about a mile ahead of us on the long straight across the heath. But it meant we had missed the experience of riding along the lanes as dawn broke.
Previous years were either singlespeed or fixed, and I have to say fixed was the most fun, even though it was slower over all and, when I then went back to Framlingham to look round the castle, it was painful climbing down the wooden stairs from the battlements. The climb out of Finchingfield is so short that it was not a problem, and the uphill grind near Sudbury was barely noticeable.
Any news of coach plans?