2012-06-30 Sat/Sun - Dunwich Dynamo DD20

Please can everyone stop talking about gpx/garmin. It's fucking boring. There is a route sheet available for £1, which probably goes towards some relatively good cause. It includes relevant details, such as the route, and the location of the feed stop.

Perhaps it's escaped the attention of some, but DD is a mass ride, so you probably won't even need to look at the route sheet, or a garmin, because there will most likely be a steady stream of hi-viz and lycra ahead of you following some smart alec that knows the route. If you are by yourself at some point, you can consider yourself lucky.

If you do get lost, you should panic for at least 10 minutes, bang on the door of the nearest house and ask what county you are in and where you need to go. I'm sure they'll understand.
direction is important...

Grumpy grouch!

Why arent you riding you bike?!

This will have quite an important impact on the timings for the Dunwich Dynamo, make sure you read it - you wouldn't want to screw up and get to the beach a second before you intended to: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jun/29/leap-second-lengthens-saturday-time

This will have quite an important impact on the timings for the Dunwich Dynamo, make sure you read it - you wouldn't want to screw up and get to the beach a second before you intended to: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jun/29/leap-second-lengthens-saturday-time

I think that this will have more effect on the Dulwich Dynamo folks, have you let them know?

Sparky, what's the food hype then?

Hello - important message about coach ticket exchanges:

After a week of nonstop texts, pms, calls and emails, please be aware that from 8pm tonight I will no longer be able to play ticket swapsies so if you do manage to buy or exchange coach tickets you will need to give us the name of the person who paid for the ticket when collecting from the park between 6.30 and 8.30pm.

It is that name which will be on our ticket spreadsheet.

Thanks!
you are the best, well done Alex xx

Don't get me wrong I could ride it but I'd be doing 10mph and spinning a high gear and I wouldn't be able to walk afterwards.

This is my game plan for the whole ride to be honest.

Sparky, what's the food hype then?

Well, is there anywhere good near London Fields? I'll be there from 6 - we can meet up and grab something al fresco?

i could be there around then aswell...

promise not ear licking

sorted that crank now? you'll not be wanting that coming off on the descent into Sudbury!

Oi!

Im trying to keep that low key ;-)

Im riding the road bike so i should be fine. You coming sir?

Aw, I wish I was. I've done it a few times since 2005 and was all ready to do it again this year but son #2 is doing his first gig with his new band tomorrow night and I don't fancy my chances of getting from West Wickham up to the DunRun route to join in the happy throng after the gig, added to which I'd have to ride back and I bet there are lots of jobs for me to do at home on Sunday (with my 7.94mm allen key, no doubt)

But the tale of how your left leg was flailing around with a crank attached to it at Bricklayers Arms this morning is surely something people need to hear about in the public interest?

Please can everyone stop talking about gpx/garmin. It's fucking boring. There is a route sheet available for £1, which probably goes towards some relatively good cause. It includes relevant details, such as the route, and the location of the feed stop.

£1 or another donation that you might want to give.

If you do get lost, you should panic for at least 10 minutes, bang on the door of the nearest house and ask what country you are in and where you need to go. I'm sure they'll understand.

Fixed.

hush!!!

I dont know what youre talking about...

But it will be sad not to have a man of your calibre on a ride like this.

Im riding the road bike so i should be fine. You coming sir?

The one with enough bottles to watered your guns?

Excited!

i could be there around then aswell...

promise ear licking

Come on down and get involved.

literally just got home after a week of camping, looking forward to this i'll be riding my orbea road bike tomorrow

To go back to Chap Nav, I ve never got lost except at the begining or the end. Getting from London Fields to the Lea Bridge Rd is tricky if you want to avoid the joy of the roundabout @ Clapton

For reasons best known to Patrick Field, the last bit from Peasenhall avoids the obvoius and easy routev via Yoxford - Westleton - Dunwich . I ve ignored his instructions in the past. Mind you, that's hard to get lost as long as you know the order of villages to go through. At night you just need to keep an eye out for a red LED

Does any one want a lead out from LF to Woodford?

For reasons best known to Patrick Field, the last bit from Peasenhall avoids the obvoius and easy routev via Yoxford - Westleton - Dunwich . I ve ignored his instructions in the past.

I think the route used to go via Yoxford. I don't know why that was changed.

http://owntheroad.cc/2012/06/handbags-and-gladrags/

A bonk bag costing twenty pounds.

To go back to Chap Nav, I ve never got lost except at the begining or the end. Getting from London Fields to the Lea Bridge Rd is tricky if you want to avoid the joy of the roundabout @ Clapton

Does any one want a lead out from LF to Woodford?

And avoiding the roundabout?

I think the route used to go via Yoxford. I don't know why that was changed.

Too many noisy campag hubs buzzing through in the early hours?

I like the back-road from Sibton to Westleton - via Darsham instead of via Yoxford - for the lonely woods, the perky climbs and the little descent with the dirty r/h bend at the bottom. All very touristic; also the mysterious 'Dunwich 7' finger-post before you even get to the A12.

Dunwich was once as big as London, when they were both small, by modern standards. Maybe rolling East on the less-travelled, country road - avoiding Yoxford - helps you sniff the memory of the Lost City? There's more hills and the first section is very rough and dirty but it's hardly any further than going the 'easy' way.

It's only a suggestion. Anyone can go any way they like.

The route was much simpler in the 20th Century. Following the A1120 most of the way from Coddenham to Yoxford. In those days we rigged routing arrows in the Paris-Brest-style. Lots of people used to get lost. The arrows seemed to send them to sleep.

When the ride became free-to-enter and the arrows were dispensed with and it became more practical to use a less obvious route.

Fair point about the route to Sibton.

I think Patrick cut out the Yoxford bit as the road was too straight.

Yes, I remeber the DD in the 90s.. I first did it in 98, I think, and then it became open entry. We left the Eastway( that does show it was the 20th Century and went out via Chingford as the A12 was still being built. It rained then but I enjoyed it . We stopped at a Village Hall in Dunmow, the Subdbury stop and then some where in the wilds of mid suffolk. I have never quite worked out where..
I did that one on Sachs 7 speed and there were 2 blokes from Epping Tri Club on Choppers with tri bars..