Hi everyone,
As you may have already seen in today's club newsletter (thanks, Bill), I'm organising a couple of trips and I would like to share a few more details with my C&CCC clubmates. Both trips are ones I’ve organised before and may be familiar, albeit I wasn’t a member of C&CCC when they last happened. Both trips are voluntary endeavours on my part and the prices cover costs.
One trip is to ride the Dunwich Dynamo in July 2022. It’s an iconic through-the-night road ride. Read on for details. Partners, friends (even friends in other clubs!) are welcome.
If you haven’t heard of it, the Dunwich Dynamo is a special ride that deserves a place amongst your thoughts. It’s 115 miles on roads from Hackney, London to Dunwich on the Suffolk coast. Through the night with a couple of thousand others. There is no recognisable organisation, no entries and it’s free. You just turn up and do the ride, ensuring you are self-sufficient. There are lots of pubs, cafes, village halls and other refreshment stops along the way that open specially for the event, and several businesses in Dunwich open extra early to reward finishers with breakfast. Plenty of websites will tell you more about it.
My article: http://www.gloscitycc.co.uk/spokespiece-magazine/#dflip-df_5908/1/
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/latest-news/dunwich-dynamo-take-part-339446
Route: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/28157346
The trickiest aspect of taking part involves getting to the start in central London and then getting home from the remote finish on a Sunday morning. Transport options are very limited, so I’ve organised a private coach for us and our bikes. The only cost to take part is to cover the cost of the coach hire.
Itinerary / included:
• Saturday 16th 2022: coach departs from Swindon around 15.00 (time TBC). Arrives in Hackney around 19.00. There will be a stop in the services reasonably close to London, allowing time for refreshments and an opportunity to change into cycling kit. Bikes get prepared (see below), before we all set off and ride the Dunwich Dynamo.
• Sunday 17th July: coach departs from Dunwich once everyone has completed the ride and grabbed a well-earned breakfast from the café on the beach, pub or local tea-rooms. The likely departure time is between 07.00 and 10.00. The coach then returns us to Swindon, with another stop for refreshments at a suitable motorway service station.
The same coach will transport us and our bikes. Bikes will go in the hold underneath the coach. So that bikes are suitably protected, they will be loaded by us with the front wheel and both pedals removed. Each bike will have a 2m x 1.5m packing blanket to protect it that I am providing. Bungee cords will also be used to prevent bikes from moving about.
It’s the same plan that served us well in 2019. Having learned from that trip that there is a bit more room for bikes than I’d estimated, there is an opportunity to bring the cost per person down by increasing the numbers. The minimum is 15, at a cost of £95 each. If there are more, the price will come down.
If you wish to book, please email me at CyclingEvent@outlook.com and I’ll send you a booking form and details of how to pay your deposit. Any questions, please drop me an email or reply below.
Cheers,
Mark
I've taken the decision to cancel the coach. If you get the opportunity to do the ride via other means, I'm sure you'll enjoy it.