2011-07-16/17 Sat/Sun - Dunwich Dynamo DD19

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plus i told the driver of your coach to get the heating right up so that we could get a photo of everyone passed out on the coach. it could be a forum tradition or something. i take it the photo didnt happen...

Tell me you are joking... srsly.

^ what a waste of time that was then if there was no photo...seriously no pleasing some people...

;-)

^^^Scott you looked like you were on a mission from God when I saw you on your return journey.

I had a terrific time doing the DD, unforgettable, esp the moonlit countryside and the bike lights snaking their way through. Oh, and the swim at the end.

made a little timelapse of it too, inspired by stemy08 's one on youtube for 2009, hope it brings back memories:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xjyqf6_timelapse-dunwich-dynamo-2011_sport

ACEs! Well done.

^ what a waste of time that was then if there was no photo...seriously no pleasing some people...

;-)

Sorry I'm having a subtlety malfunction:

Did you really tell him to put the heating on?

^^^Scott you looked like you were on a mission from God when I saw you on your return journey.

Yeah I actually felt better at that point than the last half of the outward journey...didn't last though! :]
Good to pass you guys all looking so happy. :]

BRP

If you didn't have fun, you're doing it wrong.

Sorry I'm having a subtlety malfunction:

Did you really tell him to put the heating on?

nope, didnt even think about it.

oh and the person organising the southwark cyclists coaches trying to dissuade us from running a coach next year as they changed the departure time at the last minute to 11am this year and next year will be running rolling coaches. one an hour from 10am. just means that next year we need to leave the beach at 9am...

I'll take that challenge!

lol its not a race...its a ride. ^

Great, no more Party Peletons, everyone's going to have to get to the beach for 4:30 am now in order to get a bus home.

Things rolled along nicely until just before Sudbury when I suddenly began to feel really nauseous. I sat on the bridge in Sudbury for a while hoping it might go away, but it never did...for the rest of the whole damn ride.

I felt the same as well, reckon it's fuel?

I ended up forcing myself to stop despite feeling like I'm on a roll, ate a sandwich and feeling better already.

I stopped 3 time for 10 minutes each, left London at 9pm, I reckon my time is 6hr 30 minutes.

feel like having a challenge by riding non-stop all the way next year.

tibbs just attach a rope to 6pt and the like, get a radio going and get the party peleton moving at hyper speed to the beach...

I felt the same as well, reckon it's fuel?

now i know wht everyone was stopped outside that garage in epping...filling up water bottles were you?

...ended up being the hardest ride I've ever done and has left me a broken man.

That sounds awful Scott :(

anyone saw/heard any bats?

next year i will: 1. ride it fixed 2. have a trailer 3. ride back 4. dip in the sea...
ok, may be one thing at a time.

@skully...I still had fun...just not on most of the way home.
@Ed...I don't think so as it was what I mormally eat...may have been the amount of painkillers...which led to problems near the end. :]
@Missmouse....parts of it were. :]

Erm, it's a public car park. How about they don't run one and leave it clear for us? ;)

Touché

@Ed...I don't think so as it was what I mormally eat...may have been the amount of painkillers...which led to problems near the end. :]

That sound like a possibilities, and the fact you drank whisky with painkillers doesn't help too Scott!

lol its not a race...its a ride. ^

fine, we'll stick with 11am ;)

but seriously, I don't understand the rivalry. aren't we all just trying to get knackered riders back to London?

That sound like a possibilities, and the fact you drank whisky with painkillers doesn't help too Scott!

Ha...I forgot that part. :]

I only had about 3 swigs the whole ride though. :]

why/how are you two still awake exactly? ^

I agree with you. we just had the ability to do it slightly earlier. if Southwark were able to do a rolling service with people able to leave as early as southwark can actually get them moving I think it would be a great addition to the service already offered and im guessing very much well received by those tired souls.

i have no idea. i worked out I actually spent approximately 9 and 1/2 hours driving since 4pm yesterday. i had to get out at the services in thurrock just to stay awake for the last few miles

that. was. wonderful.

how on earth did you people do it so quickly?!?

I left at 20:30, arrived at 06:30. 10 hours including a long feed station stop and some other short ones too. nice round number.

Well done all. It was great fun. Smashed my time from last year. Everyone was so friendly and happy (nearly) all the way. Good to meet some people on here, including chap with lovely Mercian who I spoke to at the accident outside Epping (get well soon, btw.)

Bell man was ace. As was a cache of goodies my friend from Needham left me at the lake. I instructed him to leave energy bars, bananas etc. He instead packed a bag of suff that a serial killer is likely to have in his possession: tins of ham, doctor octopus action figure, barking toy poodle, christian romantic novel, a page from a medical dictionary, Libra 1983 horoscope book, leaflet about dealing with the abuse of elderly... in Bengali.

Slightly hairy moment was when a discarded bottle went under my wheels on a big descent. Luckily my tourer's stability kicked in.

See you out there next year.