2015-07-04 Dunwich Dynamo XXIII

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Dunwich Dynamo XXIII
4 - 5 July 2015

The Dunwich Dynamo is a 200 km night ride from London to the lost city of Dunwich on the Suffolk Coast. From 1992 to 1998 it ran as commercial pay-to-enter event. In 1999 it became a free, traditional event; something like Christmas but with less eating and more travelling by bike. This successful format has continued since 2000.

Setting a date for an informal 'turn-up-and-ride' event - on the Saturday night nearest a full moon in July - maintains the most important element of the great festival of frivolity, the company of other riders.

Might as well start a thread a year in advance. :)

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1. MuleManning
   

lol well I do plan to

200k is somewhat of an exaggeration if you just ride from PotP to Dunwich though!

Booooooooked x 2!

Walthamstow > London Fields > Dunwich / Bermondsey > Walthamstow is about 200km, so I'm accepting that

Fair enough! I got a 'private' coach last year which dropped us off at stratford, which helped immensely with the final leg!

I definitely want to do this again, anybody on here planning to do it and ride back?

I am doing bag and BBQ duties again.

So if you want some gear* to meet you at the beach, get in touch closer to the date (Will park-up around 04:00/05:00).

*Spare clothes, food, accordions, etc.

I'll see how Deal goes beforehand. But with the right weather I'd consider it.

Train restrictions here

Sunday 5th July

Bikes will be prohibited on the following routes: Lowestoft - Ipswich, Lowestoft - Norwich.

Bikes will be restricted to a maximum of 4 on the following rural routes: Ipswich - Cambridge, Norwich - Cambridge. Only 8 bikes can be carried between Norwich and Ipswich.

Intercity services starting from Ipswich travelling to Colchester/Chelmsford/Stratford/London will carry a maximum of 50 bikes per train only and must be reserved in advance - a free bike ticket will be generated and this must be presented before boarding.

typical, the first year that I was going to get the train back.

well 50 bikes per train sounds rather generous on a service that normally takes 8, just make sure to book up now!

Book in advance and ask for a bike pass at the time of booking. I booked 3PM from ipswich with a bike back to London and had no issues. They even ushered me on to an earlier train as I was making the place look untidy.

Will definitely book!

Later is much better, only 1 other bike on my carriage.

yea, time for a bit of sleep too.

Awesome photo.

Makes me glad I didn't consider the train the one time I did the Dun Run.

isn't it, not mine.
reckon you could fit a few more bikes in there, bit like my flat.

So no bikes at all allowed on train from Darsham to Ipswich? That sucks. Special service on that route was perfect last year - whole carriage for bikes and another for cyclists, friendly staff on the platform. Now: prohibited.

I think the train contract has changed hands in the last 6 months or so, and it could just be a default response. Might be worth trying to organise people to write to the new operators to make them reconsider

Might finally get around to doing this.

Was lots of fun - even with iffy weather last year

I stopped for a couple of hours with the in-laws and got a train back about 4pm from Ipswich, hardly any other bikes on the train.

Might go s/s rather than fixed this year, it wasn't hard but would have been nice to stretch out the legs after 6/7 hours

Has anyone managed to make a bike reservation for the Ipswich-London train? FAQ still says "Reservations are intended to go 'live' in early May" but no sign of it and company seems to know nothing about it.