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oh and I take it back about people having to ride the exact same route back again. Never doing Woodford/Epping on no sleep again, that was way too sketchy.
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^I almost got wiped out by a subaru driving towards me at 70mph+ overtaking the oncoming traffic. He wasn't expecting anyone to be there, missed me by about a foot. Did not enjoy that section. Also, congrats on getting in waaay before your cutoff time (9pm, wasn't it?)
It sounds really stupid, but despite the ride back clearly taking forever, I wasn't expecting it to be so short, or so different. shortness = so dazed, most of it just drifted by; different = a lot of it is very diffferent in the day time compared to standard night-time dunwich practise. mostly prettier in the dark :)
forgot to add that william1984 caught up with us on our way back and then flew into the distance (but we overtook him while he nipped into a convenience store for supplies...). It helped loads to see someone else was out there doing the same thing. -
It was a great ride last night, managed to pull all my JOGLE kit along without too much trouble, which bodes well for the actual ride in September.
Met a few forumites on the ride, Skully early on near Epping, then four of the gang at the bacon roll stop near Framlingham.
Hope you all had a good ride.
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I nearly got plowed into by an oncoming car too; sorry to the group it was passing for the swearing...
Also forgot to say Prav was an ace riding companion for the second half. I thoroughly enjoyed that.
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Oh I'm not at all, I just like chasing down small flashing red lights. Unless they're on hills. But thank you nonetheless.
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My highlights in no particular order:
Luminous moonlit fields
Skully singing folk songs
The bell guy
Seeing the essex man who seems to pass the riders every year making the 'wankers' sign-hello again silly man
Beef jerky and home made electrolyte (Cheers mate)
Chatting to Ian (conker) in the kilnmobile
pub stops throuout the night and beer for breakfast
Seeing (photo of) the sunrise on the beach (in Ed's camera)
Respect to scott and rosie for smiling passing on their way back!
Rolling with forum folk (who told me that I would pedal 71,000 strokes?)
leaving the beach well early waving at the 'southwark cyclists' (thanks K and J)
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I almost got taken out not by cars but by other who treated the DD as a race in the first 40 miles.
The worse thing happened to me was nearing Braintree, a 'roadie' (I use this word extremely lightly) decided to overtake and draft me ridiculously close while going downhill.
What he didn't realised is that his panniers (hence lightly) stick out a bit and somehow loop itself onto the drop part of my handlebar.
Cue me trying to keep the bike steady as he struggle to find the brake levers for the next 40 metres of being hooked on me before the panniers dislodged itself from the tiny rack and fling across the road behind me.
Fucker deserve it.
Beside the occasional idiot who treated the damn thing as a race, it was a lovely if surreal ride.
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re the chasing lights: just to clarify, this was in a 'they might know the way, we should catch them up' way rather than a KILL AND DESTROY way.
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Tricity, I did the same, I decided to rely on Chap Nav, surprisingly effective, apart from the time I followed a commuter quite by accident, he kept looking back in panic as I approached him from behind.
"You're going to the beach right?"
"what beach?"
"Dunwich"
"no i'm off to work"
"....ah"
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Brilliant ride, many thanks to Katie and John for their organisational skills, Ludwig and Laner for their company on the road and everyone else for heating up the coach.
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Did spybot cycle back?
spyboy was awesome company :)
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me: shattered. speechless.
congrats: rosie & others for making it all the way back
thank you: all + particularly john for lugging my emergency tools and meal around + katie for hanging back with me while i tackled the last 30(?) miles. + coordinating the bus & bike transport. bravo.
missing: the peasenhall pea festival. -
me: shattered. speechless.
congrats: rosie & others for making it all the way back
thank you: all + particularly john for lugging my emergency tools and meal around + katie for hanging back with me while i tackled the last 30(?) miles. + coordinating the bus & bike transport. bravo.
missing: the peasenhall pea festival.Congrats yourself! I would never want to ride one of those things again if I were you.
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2011-07-16/17 Sat/Sun - Dunwich Dynamo DD19
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I am back! There was an exciting thunderstorm which woke me up a bit (and entirely killed off my phone, it was drowned within seconds). So happy to be in clean, dry clothes.
That was very annoying, I ate a ridiculous amount of food/energy powdered up water/caffeinated drinks/energy gels but kept nearly falling asleep on my bike for the last 45 miles, so I kept having to get off and rest. Left at 9pm Sat, got back just after 5pm today, so bloody ages (though that did include inadvertently falling asleep in some public toilets for an hour and getting lost several times due to being incapable of reading my own route directions, as well as the grillion rest stops) but at least I have something to improve on next time...
To echo Tom's sentiments, it was AWESOME seeing everyone on the way back - thanks for the brilliant cheerleading. plus I think nearly everyone on the entire Dynamo who didn't know me looked extremely amused/baffled that someone so unathletic looking was doing such a ridiculous thing, which cheered me up no end.