Dunwich Dynamo 2008

Mmm.. special places..

What a brilliant, brilliant couple of days out. Good riding by the Hipeleton. Fuck Yeh!

Good fun riding with Jacqui and Moose (sorry Jacqui about my crap mileage estimates) but the thing that will stay with me most after that ride is hearing Jacqui's "War Cry" as we turned a corner a come across yet another long ascent on shattered legs. If I was that hill I would have flattened the fuck out after hearing that. Or surrendered. Or both.

I thought the mis estimates were good they kept me going... sorry if my frustration scream at the hill traumatised you and moose.. I just had too... noticed you two stayed well back of me for a while after that! lol ;)
all in good fun though..

I took my GPS on the ride but I don't think it was receiving well in my bag. Will check it later.. one day.. maybe.

@ monkeywhippet nice stats. was already surprised by the 1300m elevation my gps was reporting but 2400m sounds a bit steep

@ monkeywhippet nice stats. was already surprised by the 1300m elevation my gps was reporting but 2400m sounds a bit steep

That was my gps putting out those stats and i think they may be corrupted, it's elevation stats are always very much on the high side.

Although I put the info into mapmyride.com and into Trailrunner software and got 2 more totally different results - one around 1000m and one around 500m - your guess is as good as mine as to how far we climbed :)

D

haha.. sounds like Sam and I riding back to Ipswich.. "thought you said these were pancake flat?!", "another fucking hill", "this is the highest fucking place in suffolk for fuck's sake!!"

"It has to be all downhill from here to the finish"

We kept telling ourselves that from the feed station onwards... It didn't work.

Those last hills look really small on monkeywhippet's elevation profile though... I think his GPS must be broken!

Couldn't have been much better really, could it? clear skies, tailwind, good road surfaces, hardly any other road users after the first three hours.

@ Roberto - of the three fixed riders who got there by 5.00am two were from the forum: Australian Will (fourm name Texas) and Australian Gavin: Nice meeting you guys; announce youself here and claim your accolades.

The coach back was all very convenient and that, but next time I'm going to aim to do what Roberto and Hippy did: get to Ipswich, or maybe even further.

I truly can't believe I got there in the time I did compared to last year's sapping slog in freezing rain. But what truly made it an epic was all the japes with you lot at the beach (once you finally turned up!). Ta again, guys.

Yep aussie Gav, that's me... Yeah brilliant ride, mile after mile of perfect cycling road laying itself out infront of you under a full moon. Some great group riding too - i am rubbish with names let alone forum aliases but you know who you are, and nice one with the beers at the end all

Highest hill was just outside of London, all downhill from there..

The video is finally up on ITV Local - cheesy and cliche ridden, but I stress I'm not a reporter/journo/producer-type!

http://www.itvlocal.com/london/londonlife/?player=LON_LondonLife_15&void=214181

@ danDNA you are right this is definitely not trip to argue about the elevational profile. i am just a sucker for stats. powertap data anybody?

your guess is as good as mine as to how far we climbed :)

My GPS said 770m at the end (based on barometric whatnots, so should be fairly accurate), but it also said something like 600m at the feed station so I'm a bit suspicious... It sure as hell felt like more than 170m of climbing from there to the end.

.. relatively flat course, not too much of a challenge..

:)

The video is finally up on ITV Local - cheesy and cliche ridden, but I stress I'm not a reporter/journo/producer-type!

http://www.itvlocal.com/london/londonlife/?player=LON_LondonLife_15&void=214181

Good piece.

Tommy the Ambassador.

for all KoM: going over a 10 cm speed hump every 20 m for 200 k accumulates to 1000 m elevation. bring on the polka dots.

going over a 10 cm speed hump every 20 m for 200 k accumulates to 1000 m elevation

Also, it makes your arse hurt a lot.

:)

Lol

The video is finally up on ITV Local - cheesy and cliche ridden, but I stress I'm not a reporter/journo/producer-type!

http://www.itvlocal.com/london/londonlife/?player=LON_LondonLife_15&void=214181

Great stuff, well done!

Nice to see my bike in it twice and me standing on the beach with Brett while Tommy was doing his 'thang'.

The video is finally up on ITV Local - cheesy and cliche ridden, but I stress I'm not a reporter/journo/producer-type!

http://www.itvlocal.com/london/londonlife/?player=LON_LondonLife_15&void=214181

Good vid! Cheers for that Steves!

Oh, I've just looked through some of the photos and I saw lots of you on the road, just didn't know who you were. Did anyone see a girl on a pink Surly Steamroller with a pink courier bag? That was me.

And I wish I'd taken a leaf out of Hippy's book and checked my mileage before I got in the shower. I had 175 miles on the clock, which is my longest ride ever, but I'd quite like to have got it up to 300k!

All in all, the best DD I've done yet - no rain, beautiful moonlight all the way (I didn't end up needing the Petzl headtorch I found in a charity shop for 50p) and none of my usual low points (i.e. the first hour through Epping Forest; the hour after the feed stop; the last 20 miles). I raced a bloke on a Mercian down to the beach, and he offered to sell me my next fixie.

Is it me, or was it a lot smaller this year? And faster?

what to say. a really great ride that one - so much nicer than last year.

really enjoyed riding with fellow Team Etchingham co-founder and childhood buddy Tim, ( clintsmoker on this forum) and a lot of the regular and some new forum faces.

big respect goes out to Hippy and Sam for sucking it in and doing the extra miles. tim and me got to darsham station and realised trains from there were gonna be impossible. good laughs back at the beach though and a fair crack on the coach too.

happy that i live only a few miles from smithfield market. then back on the bike this morning for work and it was like it never happened. well, kinda.

really enjoyed riding more as a group this year with little stops here and there bringing us back together. nice one.

rpm, mr.smith - we got to hear the lowdown on the rest of the stag

Jonny, I'll let the (small) cat out of the bag. We abandoned the ride to Ipswich with 3 miles to go and caught a train from Westerfield. Not far to go agreed, but it saved on the rigmarole of trying to navigate round Ipswich with tired legs and brains. It was a stupidly hilly 31 miles, but probably a damn sight better than my "picturesque" 45 mile route!

Did anyone see a girl on a pink Surly Steamroller with a pink courier bag? That was me.

I remember seeing you at the first garage stop. Nice bike.

Emilia, me and my friend were leap frogging you all night (we were all on gears). I think I also told you your batteries in your rear light were dead.

Jim you were the only person I saw who looked healthier at Dunwich than you did at Hackney.

Emilia, me and my friend were leap frogging you all night (we were all on gears). I think I also told you your batteries in your rear light were dead.

Jim you were the only person I saw who looked healthier at Dunwich than you did at Hackney.

I had more beer at Dunwich than I'd had at Hackney. Beer makes everything better. UUUMMMM BEER(dribble)!!

Emilia, me and my friend were leap frogging you all night (we were all on gears). I think I also told you your batteries in your rear light were dead.

Ah thank you! I remember you. I did stop and change them eventually, but I was worried about being left behind by the rest of the bunch. Then I remembered that said bunch was probably a good 50 miles long, so there wasn't much chance of that!