Dunwich Dynamo

For the last five years I’ve done the Dunwich Dynamo, and I wondered if YOU would like to take part this year. This is a 120-ish mile overnight bike ride from London to Dunwich on the Suffolk coast, just shy of Lowestoft. That might sound like a hugely long way, but it’s pretty flat and...
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Today’s Yehuda Moon strip just about sums up the commuting that’s just avound the corner: . . . or if you’re cycling through Essex & Suffolk with us this July , it’s the kind of thing you see at about 4a.m.-ish …
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Last Friday I got an email from Fat Rob asking if I’d be interested in doing a double century next year. I love the idea of this - an unsupported 200 mile, single-day ride. The only problem is that his suggested route of Cambridge to Scarborough left me a bit cold. So I’ve spent a...
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Von Smallhaussen and I did the Dunwich Dynamo this year on a late-70s Pashley tandem that I’d rebuilt It was great fun (rose-tinted glasses now very much in place…), and we had an amazing time - especially as we were decked out as the most fairy-light covered tendem in the whole event The ride was pretty...
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What a night. I mean, really, what a night! Here’s how it started - last year, Von SmallHaussen volunteered to come and collect me, Doktor Seth and Tall Robbie from the beach. Seeing us there, I think she probably mistook our spaced-out exhaustion for some sort of Zen-like being at peace with the world. So a...
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Remember the story about the cobbler’s son always going unshod? Yeah, well last night I had a discussion with Von SmallHaussen about tapering and not over-cooking things a week before our Big Ride together (ooo-er!) So in the spirit of do as I say, not as I do . . . . I’d been out running...
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I mean, really. Just WTF? I’m hardly an expert when it comes to ‘long’ rides, but in this year’s Dunwich Dynamo I’ll be accompanied by some genuine novices. For one of these, the practicalities of 120 miles overnight, unsupported, with just one actual lavatory (at about 65 miles, and with a queue of ~200) might...
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Sometimes I can’t figure out if I’m poor, have an eye for a bargain, or am just plain tight. And not in the sense that Cameron from the Sarah Connor Chronicles would use to describe someone who’s cool either. So when I noticed that Evans Cycles were having an early summer sale, I was intrigued....
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Due to my training buddy’s inability to manage his diary, I’m having to move our Coast2Coast ride this year to mid-September. Basically he’d forgotten that the weekend we’d planned on will be . . . His wedding anniversary His wife’s birthday Just a couple of days before his wife’s PhD viva Actually, now I write it down, it’s...
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Von SmallHaussen and I are already starting to plan for this year’s Dunwich Dynamo. It’s a 120 mile overnight ride from Darkest Hackney in London to Dunwich on the Suffolk coast. This year’s is on the evening of the 4th July, and we’ll be doing it in style on Daisy, accompanied by Algernond, Doktor Seth,...
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