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

For a navigational headstart, best to leave around 8pm and follow the masses all the way to Epping. Usually the splits are big enough here that you'll need to keep an eye on the route sheet.

Cycle hire fund

1) Shinigami
2) Ian (conker)

fuck that

1. Sparky
   
2. Branwen
   
3. kboy
   
4. Shinigami
   
5. Cafewanda
   
6. pt
   
7. Digger
   
8. Oliver Schick
   
9. machineisbored
   
10. Cg
    
11. Fox
    
12. Johnbobsquarepants
    
13. shambolic
    
14. dicki
    
15. FridayMarch26th
    
16. 
    
17. conker (riding home - from Smithfields)
    
18. Ark Minor
    
19. JAH tim-on-sea
    
20. leifal
    
21. pascalo
    
22. JaRyder +1
    
23. mr lunch +1
    
24. Sniffy + some mates who probably wince out soon...
    
25. tom k&e
    
26. S/J
    
27. Spenceey
    
28. stupidPony
    
29. stupidPonys imaginary friend G.Love.
    
30. Clever Pun
    
31. nneil
    
32. Ramaye
    
33. Bikeman
    
34. Mark Cult
    
35. mattty +1
    
36. PaulR
    
37. Rossi75
    
38. TSK (silly oop norf route)
    
39. upstart
    
40. juanito
    
41. Tiswas
    
42. The Original Mexican Bob (common list fucker upper)
    
43. Katie-Coo +1
    
44. friar tuck
    
45. laner
    
46. Stonehedge (If I am ok after my 350mi ride a week before)
    
47. Soul
    
48. alexmckerrell + my dad is he's up for it
    
49. dimi3
    
50. 105champ
    
51. ChainBreaker
    
52. middleofnowhere
    
53. Sumo - on a bmx
    
54. jenny j
    
55. Loafheads
    
56. nelaii
    
57. MissMouse
    
58. FixedCheese + cheesey work colleagues
    
59. MA3K
    
60. KRZ
    
61. Rod Munch
    
62. fotochap - probably fixed, with several kilos of flapjacks
    
63. KT Bee + friend
    
    

Ok, I finally admit it... i'm out. BUT I am possibly being persuaded to be a special support vehicle for Easts if they ask me nicely enough.

I am, yet again, being denied the chance to ride back home by 2 members of my family deciding they want to get up at silly o'clock and drive all the way to Dunwich so they can watch me nodding off with my nose in a pint of Adnams and then listen to me snoring on the drive home. Maybe I should do it on my Mezzo if I haven't sold it by then...

^^^^^

Good tip - thanks. I'm happy to navigate by the stars / a crumpled route sheet / a garmin I haven't fully mastered yet for much of the journey but would quite like the escape from London to be uneventful.

I got lost last year but that was part of the fun.

Cycle hire fund

1) Shinigami
2) Ian (conker)
3) dirkbang (it was my stupid idea - but we've yet to find someone stupid enough to actually do it!)

and for the record - from now on I'll call them "that bumbling Tory toff who's in desperate need of a proper haircut poor excuse of a mayor who only got into power because idiots voted for him as some kind of ill concieved ironic joke wanker wanker wanker wanker wanker bikes"

^ I think my colour's firmly nailed to the mast there.

so this could be abbreviated to: "TBTTWIDNOAPHPEOAMWOGIPBIVFHASKOICIJWWWWWB"?

... or maybe "Boris Bike" for short?

Ok, I finally admit it... i'm out. BUT I am possibly being persuaded to be a special support vehicle for Easts if they ask me nicely enough.

you really want to run a second support vehicle?

im running one already y'see. plans are being sorted before being announced

you really want to run a second support vehicle?

im running one already y'see. plans are being sorted before being announced

It was suggested to me at Easts a couple of weeks ago (not sure if they were joking or not).
I don't intend to step on anyone's toes.

lol not stepping on my toes. i totally understand people wanting a support vehicle run by someone they know. i want just trying to think of the environment! wont someone think of the environment?!

/insert relevantsmileyhere

PM each other! Come to an arrangement. A second support vehicle would be amazing.

Ok, I finally admit it... i'm out. BUT I am possibly being persuaded to be a special support vehicle for Easts if they ask me nicely enough.

if it for easts its definitely got to involve a cask of darkstar ale!

Pah! Support vehicle! Where's the adventure with that!? The great thing about this ride is it is unsupported and unmarshalled.

Nah, the great thing about the Dynamo is that it is unregulated and as such you can ride it whichevr way you please. Like the fixie skidder last year with just a bottle in his back pocket or helicopter support if you're so inclined.

Granted. It's not how I would ride it. But it doesn't really fit with the spirit of the event. You get all the support you need from all the people riding it with you!

support vehicles for this arent going to be following us all the way, just used to meet at stops or pick up people with serious mechanicals

I can see the sense in having them - it's not nice to be stuck in the middle of nowhere at 3 in the morning with a broken bike - but then where is the sense in riding 120 miles at night to the Suffolk coast? It's meant to be a bit stupid - Having a get out clause sanitises the experience somewhat.

That said - it's going to be me this year that breaks down in the middle of nowhere at 3 in the morning with a broken bike and no way to fix it!

As I said... Wasnt sure whether Easts were joking. I'll find out.

Even if I'm not a support vehicle chances are I'll meet you all on the beach as I'm thinking about visiting friends in the area that weekend.

^^ well...if it is you with a broken bike on a dark country lane at 3 in the morning i'll still come and pick you up and we can go share breakfast on the beach...even if you dont believe the service is in the DD spirit. no man/woman left behind. thats just how i roll.

Last year I picked up two people, one with a fucked bike and one with a fucked knee. Definitely a no one gets left behind scenario. Also the support vehicle offered an important food stop service. The feed station aims to feed around 500 to 600 people, which last year was around a third of the 1500 who started ride. The main reason I did the support vehicle was to offer this, having experienced the horrors of having to stand in a queue for half an hour in the pissing rain getting very cold to get into the hall to stand a in a queue for a bit more before getting served.

Yes, you could carry your own food all the way, but as well as the ride being unsupported, the feed station has, for many years, been a big part of the ride. It's been a goal and a bit of a mental carrot to get you though the first half of the ride. The massive popularity and the ever earlier starters for the ride mean that surety of sustenance is diminished. If you carry your own food it's a carrot only as long as you can resist eating it.

In essence the experience is already sanitised from it's humble beginnings. On this small island with wide reaching mobile phone coverage and 24hour service for almost anything, a mechanical failure on a bike at 3am just about anywhere is a pretty easy challenge to surmount. The lfgss support vehicle is mostly a shield to your friends and family who prefer to be abed when things go awry rather than the rudely woken for a mission to rescue you from your own stupidity that they can hardly refuse.

Besides, if you ride slow enough or late enough, the support vehicle can't offer much support anyway.

Shoosh and jaitch, if neither of you are too axe murdery, you could run the support vehicle as a pair. I certainly would have appreciated some company, navigational assistance and help along the way.

im running a support vehicle y'see. plans are being sorted before being announced

Rightyho, time to go public with our semimade plans I spose...

Me and Jaitch have been plotting and he's (in the manner of all things legendary) going to run his people carrier as support vehicle from London Fields to the beautiful/grey pre-dawn Suffolk coast. (I'll let him fill you in on his plans).

Coach is arranged, same as last year, and I'm in the process of sorting out transport for all our bikes.

With the forum subsidising, it's gonna come in a bit more pricey than 2010 but not much more, as we need a bigger truck (+driver). As soon as the truck is in place we'll give a price and a poll for signing up for places- fingers crossed this will be around the start of next week, along with info on how to pay etc.

The only other thing I can think of is people to help put bikes in the truck- a delicate job and not one I want to take responsibility for thanks! Anyone wanna volunteer for this? Plus potentially sourcing packing materials depending on what a removal company may/ may not provide?

Also we need a volunteer to buy Jaitch breakfast and give him the bumps as thanks (probably a few people but I've not met him so don't know what size he is).

DD wooooop can't blimmin' wait!

Nice one! Excellent work.