Hey, I'll be around, not sure which group I'm in but probably say hi if i bump into any of yous... If not, enjoy the ride and maybe see you at breakfast!

Just woke from my afternoon slumber to the clouds tearing across the sky in the direction we're going . Result. What a contrast to last year.Now to test whether my legs knees and arms are going to get really upset from riding fixed. Tally ho

good luck guys.
I'll be at a friends birthday.

gonna be in there at 8. some people already in there taking in the pre ride vibe

Bon voyage all - ride safe, have fun

I'm in Southwold having a pint of Adnams in the sun. Hope the weather holds for you guys and that you get the wind at your back.

Keep on keeping on...

just got a message from Jonny, they have made it to dunwich. Congratulations to you all. X

yeah last i heard he was drafting stoopsombitch...

Brilliant stuff guys catch you at polo ;)

Ah, just got back and had a much needed bath...

We passed a few people I think were from here (maybe hippy, jonny etc), they were just arriving as we were driving away from Dunwich. Should have drafted someone faster ;)

Lovely weather for it... A wee bit warmer would have been nice.

Well done everyone. Wish I could have come along

well done chaps

Just got back!

Started little before nine, did few stops to sort out lights etc and of course at the feeding station, arrived in Dunwich 5 o'clock, think my average speed was 16.88 mph.

At 5 o'clock mostly of the guys there were on road bikes, i reckon only 3 fixed riders were there.

Went on a road bike with compact chainset (50/34) and a 11-23 cassette. Oh and a 135mm stem!


When having breakfast, met this guy who was going to get a train from Ipswich at 8. I was supposed to get the train back at 11:40 but decided to take the risk and use the same ticket but get an early train.

We rode from Dunwich to Ipswich in about 1 hours 45 minutes - i was having a hard time to keep up with the guy!

Hope you guys had a nice ride as well!


I think for next year will consider saving a bit of money and get some better lights!

Good Work Fellas!
Anyone fall in any canals or anything?

well done everybody.

I just wated to say that that was by far my most favourite dynamo to date. Big love to you boys, you- john, jonny, moose hippy hillbilly and the rest of you xxx

Any gossip? Well done peoples, I toasted you all over a glass of champagne last night! :)

ummm, best ask the boy... I am going to bed. ;)

I feel like someone gave my knees to some kids who mistook them for the game Operation. The one with the buzzer. First time in fixed 48-17 maybe a little hard going or lack of fitness. An awesome ride and fantastic to be greeted by the sun on the beach. Warmed me up a treat after breakfast. I hope everyone got there ok and had a jolly time

Just about to have a well deserved bath!
Great ride! Massive thanks to all the boys, hippy, aroogah, jonny, moose, brett, sam, stompy, ma3k, hillbilly, whose faster than most riders, even when he's hungover and working on zero sleep, and still able to do the dynamo, and the australian boys whose forum names I don't know.
Hard work, and big round of applause to those that did it fixed, not sure if I'da made it riding fixed. I'll need to drink a big cup of HTFU next year.
So much to say, but so very tired, got a couple of pics, which I'll post up later on.

Ps. Big big acknowledgement to the forum massive who rode it last year in the rain, and the cold, this year was hard, but it was dry and we had a tailwind, the forumengers who did it last year deserve props, proper legends you are.

I'm off to have a bath and make a full english breakfast

If I awake in time, see some of you at south beers tomorrow

I've beaten you Cornelius. had my hot shower already. Great ride.
Thanks to all. Especially for waiting when I had to fix my dodgy seatpost.

Guess who just rode his first ever 300k.. fixed.. with a fscking bag on? Yeah.. this mofo. I was fucking wrecked. Actually feel good now I've eaten everything in sight. I got home with 290k on the clock (WAC!), said hi to Mal, grabbed a mouthful of sweets and raced around Ealing until I'd added another dozen to make the 300. :)

Over 3000 members and we only get 20-30 riders doing this? Unless you have a good excuse.. there's a shitload of HTFU missing from you bunch of weaklings! If kids can do it.. no reason you can't. Miss it next year and you should consider trading your bikes for chess sets. :P

Thanks everyone for smiling and making the riding fun. Nice to meet some new peeps (Moose and Jacqui spring to mind).

Special props to Stompy who appeared to be shitloads faster this year and to Sam, who, with fsck all training, joined me for a ride back to Ipswich. He was on 250k+ when I left him at Liverpool St. Well done mate!

This year was fucking cool. So much nicer riding! Lower gearing, better weather, still got a sore arse but nowhere near as bad, actually light due to the moon, candles were out. Sweet!

coco pops rock.Shame I didn't meet up with any fellows along the way. I saw scott arriving while I was slumbering under the beached boats. Maybe i'll try and be more sociable next year when I've also worked out what ratio to use.

45x17 this year for me. Much better than 42x15.

Good going kids. That was one of the hardest things I've ever done on a bike.

Massive props to everyone that came along. Thanks to MA3K for waiting when I got my puncture, and then making me sprint to catch the rest of the crew(it was FAST!), well done Hippy for manning up with 300KM your a beast of a man! I'm trying to remember stuff that happened but I'm SO knackerd that my brain wont work proper. Maybe next year I'll not get too drunk the night before and get some sleep.

Once again thanks to everyone who was there and made it so fun. More people have to HTFU next year, and get it done.

Oh, brainflick did you make it home OK? my phone died so was unable to call you. Let us know how you got on.

Rock on people and nighty night! ;-)

A great night -thanks all. Planning to ride with you all next year rather than having to stop and start the whole time shooting video. Editing now btw.....hopefully be up tomorrow morning.

Well done to everyone. Excellent stuff. I'll be there next year; come rain or shine.

I just got home and am eating a large hot pizza.
Stopped by to see all the Polo people.

Great ride anyway, cheers all you.
Will be good to see the photos later.

Yeah, that was a good ride. I did it the easy way, with gears and a freewheel, came in around 5.20am feeling sick after deciding to sprint the last 20 miles... My friend did it the hard way, had his bike nicked 10 minutes before we set off so rode it on his Yuba ...

Couldn't have been much better really, could it? clear skies, tailwind, good road surfaces, hardly any other road users after the first three hours.

@ Roberto - of the three fixed riders who got there by 5.00am two were from the forum: Australian Will (fourm name Texas) and Australian Gavin: Nice meeting you guys; announce youself here and claim your accolades.

The coach back was all very convenient and that, but next time I'm going to aim to do what Roberto and Hippy did: get to Ipswich, or maybe even further.

I truly can't believe I got there in the time I did compared to last year's sapping slog in freezing rain. But what truly made it an epic was all the japes with you lot at the beach (once you finally turned up!). Ta again, guys.

+ 1 zillion to that. It was hard enough this year, last year must have been hell on earth.

Ended up with 160.5 miles (258k).

So, a big well done to all, a big sorry to Brett for having to put up with my whinging from mile 25 to mile 68, and a big thank you for Hippy towing me the second half of the way to Ipswich. I did tell you which way to go though and had to put up with your god awful snoring on the train!

I saw that guy! We were commenting on how he was carrying 30kg of useless steel..

He had his bike nicked?? That sucks major balls. One for the stolen list?

Yeah, parked it outside in his front garden, went in to get his bag, came back and it was gone. It's a white Decathlon B-twin (I think they're called) road bike with a Carradice clamp on the seatpost and a cable tie holding one of the brake levers on... Fairly distinctive!

Want to remember to do it next year!