Category: principles

  • What was your time?

    What was your time?

    Asking how long it took to undertake a Dunwich Dynamo is as foolish as introducing the review of a favourite restaurant by recording how long it once took to eat a meal there.

  • “Just follow the red lights?”

    There’s a terrific thrill to riding in a stream of random strangers, following the wheels ahead, oblivious to where you’re all going. The DD route was subject to pretty continuous tweaking in the early years. Now it’s been stable enough, for long enough, that plenty of people know it by heart. Thirty years have made…

  • A useful principle

    In the dark hours before the dawn pilgrims can likely ask themselves… “Why am I out of bed?” “Why am I far from home?” For a neophyte regretful questions may become insistent. Anyone who encouraged them to roll into the Essex night may become the target of bitter recrimination. If you talk to someone who’s…