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Using dnsmasq on Feisty
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May. 15th, 2007 @ 01:39 pm
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Since upgrading it Edgy to Feisty, I've notice the DNS server I host on my server takes >5 secs to respond to all queries, even local ones for which it is authoritative. Oddly, restarting seems to fix it
$ sudo /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart
however I must do this every time it boots.
Looking into a better fix, it seems it may be because the machine is using mdns (multicast DNS) to do the lookup. Some links for links to look into more on this subject:-
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/avahi/+bug/94940 (also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/80900)
also a thread about mdns on the dnsmasq mailing list http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2007q2/001349.html
A side comment is possibly I can do away with dnsmasq, and just use mdns for all queries. But whilst mdns does have a convenience factor, I kind of like the predictability of real dns. And dnsmasq is very sweet to use too... |
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SJS again
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Apr. 16th, 2007 @ 07:47 am
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Gel lead acid batteries
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Apr. 3rd, 2006 @ 04:07 pm
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Spoke LED patterns that make hookey spokeys look DULL
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Mar. 9th, 2006 @ 02:30 pm
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Using cdrecord to write an iso image
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Mar. 4th, 2006 @ 06:37 pm
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Bought a USB2.0 DVD/CD recorded (LG super multi - does double layer too) from PC world. Was returned item, so reduced from £79.99 to £71.99. Somehow it was in the system as £4.99 though. Bargain!
Only it didn't have any software with it. Still can't complain.
My old copy of nero won't grok USB burners it seems, and few of the free windows software will burn an iso image. In the end I installed good old cdtools :-)
D:\downloads\torrent>cdrecord -v dev=2,0,0 speed=24 driveropts=burnfree -eject -data ubuntu-5.10-install-i386.iso |
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Mar. 1st, 2006 @ 11:08 pm
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It's that time of year again.
Don't need all this, but stuff to think about.
I'm surprised by how much there is too.
Item No. Item Name Unit Price Qty. Subtotal
3233 Aztec Caliper brake blocks per pair £4.99 £9.98
6789 Shimano Deore & Tiagra HG53 9spd chain 114L grey - New special rivet £12.99 £12.99
274 Shimano 9 speed chain Connecting pins (bag of five) £4.99 £4.99
4614 2.4mm insulated spade connector female each - fits B+M dynamos and lights £0.25 £1.50
2870 4.0mm Spade to fit Schmidt dyno hubs £0.25 £1.50
4606 Black heat shrinktubing per 100mm length £2.00 £2.00
Diameter=2.4mm, shrinks to 1.2mm
4606 Black heat shrinktubing per 100mm length £2.00 £2.00
Diameter=4.8mm, shrinks to 2.4mm
8462 Leonardo silver wall mounted bike hanger - bike hangs vertically from wheel £12.99 £51.96
7837 Bibia wall mount bicycle hanging straps per pair £4.99 £19.96
998 Panaracer Pasela, kevlar/Aramid belt Rigid Tyre £17.99 £35.98
Size=700 x 28 (28-622)
10518 Minoura RS5000 workstand MSRP £139.99 SPECIAL PRICE! £99.99 £99.99
830 Budget wheel truing stand £29.99 £29.99
1496 Stand By Me - bike stand SPECIAL OFFER! Ex.Display (rrp £24.99) £19.99 £19.99
1153 Pendle hang up holder HUH £31.99 £31.99
1154 Pendle multi cycles holder MCH £26.50 £26.50
1156 Pendle tripod cycle holder TRICH £21.00 £21.00
9969 Topeak road Morph Mini Track pump with gauge unit £29.99 £29.99
2384 32 hole Shimano Deore HB-M510 parallax front hub, silver £14.99 £14.99
23 Shimano UN51/52/53 68mm Sealed B/B £14.99 £14.99
Length=107mm
3053 Shimano SIS 1.2mm gear inner wire £1.99 £1.99
Total (Excluding Shipping) £434.28
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Next project: upgrading the heating
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Mar. 1st, 2006 @ 03:56 pm
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Since moving house last November, our heating hasn't been quite right. Upstairs radiator don't get hot. It's a very basic gravity system; no electric valves, thermal circulated hot water, no room or cylinder thermostat.
After lots of debugging with colleagues, we decided it must be the pump that was going.
Joined British Gas cover. After 2 (cold) months they finally get engineer around to do an initial check, who declares it unfit to take on contract, but does anyway.
They've now replaced the pump, and it still ain't getting hot, so it's replacing the air escape valve next, but they doubt that will help, and any other work (power flushing, adding valves) is classed as an upgrade and they'll charge us for it.
So question: do we incrimentally get this bits changed, or just rip the whole lot out (except the radiators) and start over?
If we want to add solar heating to the water one day, what are the incremental steps? |
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Building a RAID storage server
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Mar. 1st, 2006 @ 11:41 am
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OK, so after 5 years of nomadic data existence -- and quite a few losses in the process, I've finally been lured into doing the Right Thing and build my own RAID 5 server.
This was spurred on in part by interviewing the author of the MythTV FAQ, who also happened to write up his own RAID server build experiences.
Here's a collage of my experiences.
KIT
To cut a long story short, here's what I just ordered (after lots of looking)
Product Quantity Price (exVAT)
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Intel Pent D 805 Dual core 2x2.6GHz 1 £84.26
Asus P5ND2-SLi Deluxe PCIE NForce4 1 £102.13
250Gb SATA300 Hitachi (IBM/HGST) De 1 £58.99
250GB SATA300 Samsung SpinPoint P S 1 £56.25
250Gb SATA300 Seagate 7200.9 (7200r 1 £56.98
128Mb Sapphire PCI-E ATI X800GT DDR 1 £72.00
80mm Panaflo FBA08A12L Hydro Wave ( 1 £2.99
1Gb SODIMM PC2-5300 DDR2 667MHz non 1 £52.75
580W HiperPower Type-R Modular Blue 1 £45.50
Scan 3XS Evercool Chipset Thermal K 1 £5.89
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Considerations:
i) Generally overspeced CPU MoBO, but I anticipate it will run vmware and host a few OpenBSD firewall/DMZ/App servers etc.
ii) the processor was chosen mostly by price
iii) MoBo chosen mostly for feature count: SATAII; 6 SATA interfaces, plenty of USB ports, fast FSB, DDR2, 2xGigbitEth.
iv) Graphics card was a compromise. Didn't see much point in going for real highend SLi exploiting card at this point (little Linux support), but wanted something reasonable and PCIe based (currently I only have AGP cards). This one has D-sub (x2?), DVI and S-video, so seemed pretty flexible. The X800 chipset seems reasonably supported by X (no 3d accel though). I considered getting the AIT "All-in wonder" card with DVB-T, but thought that would be better as a standalone (USB?) add on.
v) Harddrive interface SATA seems the way forward, so I'll use that for the RAID array, and an old 20G IDE as the boot drive.
vi) Hard-drive models. Originally I was just going to go for the most GB/£, and made a spreadsheet to calc. this from scan (I'll post it a comment) -- clearly the current sweat spot is in 250G drives. But I dropped the Diamondmax 9 (no NCQ) and Barracuda 7200.8 (SATA I). I then found a useful 250GB drive roundup. Deciding to go for different manuf.s to avoid systematic/batch/bath-tub failures, I just chose the top 3, skipping the Diamonmax10 as it's noisy.
vii) PSU. I already have a reasonable ATX case with dead PSU, so this was just a case of looking for a good offer on www.todayonly.co.uk. The 525W HiperPower HPU-4S525 would have been enough, but I woz suckered in by the modular connectors of the R580. And it's quiet. And a nice colour.
OPERATING SYSTEM
I plan to install Ubuntu, as it's stable, and I'm familiar with it from work. I'll also install vmware for various Win2k, OpenBSD, FreeBSD purposes.
RAID SETUP
I plan to install RAID 5, like Martin in the linked article. It seems ideal for mostly-read activities, has good space efficiency, especially with >3 drives.
A small note there: when I add new drives, I'll have to keep at 250G per drive, or loose the additional space (as RAID 5 treats all drives as if sized like the smallest of them. Well, I could one day buy e.g. 2x 750G, and RAID 0 the existing 3 drives to make the third 750GB drive (which will have 3 times the chance of failure...).
Questions about RAID:
i) SW vs HW. The nVidia NForce4 chipset supports RAID across up to 8 SATA/PATA drives in HW. Question is do I use it? There are many website reports on this, and most suggest that if you have the HW, you'd be silly not to, but this raises my second question...
ii) is there drive level compatibility of RAID format? i.e. if my NForce4 board dies, can I salvage the contents of the drives on another m/c using a different chipset, or even (ideally) Linux SW md driver? If not, I'm loath to commit to using the HW RAID, as it will no doubt be obsolete or uneconomic to purchase when it does die. Currently researching SNIA Disk Data Format (DDF) as this would seem to offer an answer. Question is, what actually follows it? And do they interoperate (as you'll only find out when it's "too late"!)
iii) Can RAID volumes be fettled in non-destructive way? e.g. adding a 4th drive? rearranging drives? I guess care is the key :) Can you just "grow" the overlaying FS to use the newly appeared spave? A follow on to this is what happens if a drive dies just after adding a new one, when the system is still working to get the drives consistent?
iv) Good file-system to put on it. Haven't thought much about this. e2fs e3fs and raiser4 are the obvious choices. I'm tempted by raiser4 just because. |
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More nuclear power on the way
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Feb. 23rd, 2006 @ 11:46 am
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The inevitable moves nearer: http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-59/iss-2/p19.html
Interesting article on /. around this: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/23/0011252&from=rss
Lots of comment on the radioactivity of coal ash, which I hadn't appreciated before, but this comment particularly caught my eye
The biggest argument against same hasn't been so much the waste issue, but the nuclear proliferation issue. Given the state of the world, I'm not sure that that's really a valid argument anymore. (Sure, it's a concern, but that genie is already out of the bottle -- and sending tons of money to unstable regimes because of their hydrocarbon reserves isn't helping either.) |
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S&S couplers considered harmful
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Feb. 22nd, 2006 @ 03:13 pm
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evidence supporting a hunch I'd always refused to listen to... http://piaw.blogspot.com/2005/08/ss-couplers.html
glad we saved that cash |
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Feb. 21st, 2006 @ 08:04 am
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So here's the route I ended up taking: http://tinyurl.com/9axww (alt: http://tinyurl.com/c8vbl)
It was a late start to the day, after researching maps online, I finally got out of the hotel something just after noon. Took a while to find the correct road, and once I finally did, I realised I hadn't packed the camera. D'oh! Couldn't be bothered to turn back now though...
First off, I cycled down to Cupertino, and another mis-navigation, managed to locate Cupertino Bike store. A most fantastic store: never seen so many bikes in stock. Mostly road bikes, racers, tri / time trial, and the odd tourer and even one tandem (in for repair). Seemed to be tri season, a couple of folk were in have extremely expensive short wheel base carbon bikes fitted up.
After browsing for a while, I asked about touring sandles: not stocked (got a slight look of "why would a racer want that, boy?"). I rummaged around a bit more, and found this years bargain: a couple of pairs of Shimano "sport" (leisure) shoes down from 50-odd bucks to 19.99. That's like 10 quid (plus tax). Bought a pair, as they'll do as spares back home, and are ideal for the bike I'm borrowing (Centurion Dave Scott signature, for the record). Cleats doubled the price (D'oh!). And whilst fitting those, I decided to adjust the seat. Seat post binder sheared - that's another 9 bucks. Then I happened to find a copy of "Vintage Bicycle Quarterly", vol 2, issue 3, which happened to be a special on 20th century tandems. Had to have that - another 6 bucks.
What a shop though!
So, after some bacon pancakes (not exactly the best ever), I set off into the mountains, now shrouded in some after clouds.
Cycled through Saratoga village - very cute, and then the climb started. On Big Basin way, I was looking out for "Mount Eden Rd". Didn't realise that Pierce Road was the route to it quite near the bottom, so hammered on right past it. This was the route I had intended to take: http://tinyurl.com/8rhfg (alt: http://tinyurl.com/dwfup) D'oh again!
So, for another good 40 mins I slogged on upwards. You always know when you're in for hard work, when you can smell the brake shoes burning up on the cars coming the other way (being inefficient American automatics might have something to do with that too, mind!). And go up it did.
A double chain ring really isn't for me for climbing, it turns out. And that chain could do with some oil! Still, beggars can't be chooser etc. etc. As I climbed, slowly my navigational error dawned on me, and with the occasional spot of rain, and some of the cars coming the other now having lights on, I started to play the "if it's not round the next corner, I'll turn around" game. As I knew it was too late to follow the intended route now, I knew I'd be re-tracing my steps all the way home.
Just after I honked past "Redwood Gulch Rd", still playing this mind game, I came across a 'bent rider, slowly twiddling his way up (what I'd give for his granny gear now!). I shot right past him, shouting a "afternoon... I can't go any slower!!" and rounded a few more corners. At this point I decided to give up, so I pulled up, got my breath back, and looked at the fantastic view. If only I'd packed the camera, at least it wouldn't be a completely wasted climb!! The mist that had been coming in at lunch time was starting to lift, and the view down over the [sillicon] valley was pretty awesome.
I stood there for a while, and eventually the 'bent rider wound on up to me, and as he passed and exchanged pleasantries, in desperation I shouted "do you know Mt Eden Rd?". He slowed and started to loose balance - just as a car was passing - and so had to stop up. That made me feel bad, but he had lots of useful info, so that made me feel better :-) He pointed out we were nearly up to the highway 35 "Skyline Blvd". But if I went up to it, it was a long old way around to get back down. How right he was. He also pointed out where I went wrong looking for Mt Eden Rd. As I moaned about the double again, he noted that Mt Eden Rd is much steeper, getting up to 18% for a stretch, which put me off somewhat. In the end, the only pragmatic answer was to head all the way back down and home the way I had come.
Now I have the luxury of Google maps once more, I find there was another option though: I could have turned at that Redwood Gulch Rd, and that would have taken me down to Steven's Creek Rd, where I wanted to be. This would have made good use of my high effort climb, would have avoided the Mt Eden slog, and would have come back via what looks like a very scenic route around a lack and presumably following the creek (hence generally downwards!!!) the whole way: http://tinyurl.com/exnsz (alt: http://tinyurl.com/7q7pz) D'oh!
Anyway, a hammer on down (with one stop to don buff around the ears, and a jumper, due to the chill now settling in) and wound my way back up the road to the hotel. I returned via "downtown" Sunnyvale - which turned out to have quite a lot of store spread over several miles - to see if I could find a DVD writer to purchase (...I didn't). Got back to hotel something after 6, having covered some 34 or so miles.
On emptying the pannier, I found the camera sat at the bottom of it. D'OH!
Still, despite the faults, it was a very fun day of cycling.
UPDATE: 060113. I just realised that gmap-pedometer now has a totally amazing evelation profile included in the routes: I've added this in the "alt" links above. In these you can see the nice climb of my route, the steep climb over Mt Eden I avoided, and also the - as suspected - glorious decent through down Steven Creek I also missed out on :-/ .... There will be a next time!!
Jan. 8th, 2006 @ 03:19 am
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checkout runbox.com
looks jolly good
Dec. 13th, 2005 @ 03:48 pm
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Fantastic pair of website:
1. Install GMapToGPX: http://www.elsewhere.org/GMapToGPX/
2. Plan a route with http://www.gmap-pedometer.com
3. Hit the GMapToGPX button
4. Copy the text that appears
5. Paste it into easyGPS
6. upload to GPS.
Nice one! :-)
Oct. 26th, 2005 @ 06:01 pm
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After a CF-card GPS. Haicom HI-305N looks like the business. lowest power option by far using numerix chipset, but not quite as good as the SiRFIII chipset for reception. But good enough. plus has SD card slot, RS232 or USB option, and folds under PDA neatly.
Order from http://store.yahoo.com/semsons-inc/
Item Options Unit
Price Quantity In Stock Subtotal
Haicom Multi-Mode GPS Receiver with Built-in SD Memory Card Slot (HI-305N) (Nemerix Chipset) (Serial Cable Included) (Free Arkon Vent Mount)
100.00 1 Yes 100.00
GPS External Antenna
GPS Type: Haicom CF GPS (HI-303MMF, 303E, 303S) / BT GPS (HI-405) 19.99 1 Yes 19.99
Windshield Pedestal (9" or 14")
Adapter: Flat Adapter Plate (AP005) (+2.00)
Length: 9 inches 11.99 1 Yes 11.99
PDA Cable for Haicom, i.Trek S1/S3 Mouse GPS
PDA Model: Dell Axim X50 15.99 1 Yes 15.99
2-in-1 Travel Charger Kit for Dell Axim X50, X50v
13.99 1 Yes 13.99
Oct. 11th, 2005 @ 05:00 pm
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Get it from http://www.gearshift.co.uk/
buy a cheap gas adapter too :-)
REFERENCE DESCRIPTION QUANTITY PRICE COST REMOVE
WATCS6 Markill Gas Burner forTrangia stoves £20
£17.02 £17.02
WFTT01 Tacx Exact Wheel Truing Stand rrp 39.99
£34.03 £34.03
Oct. 7th, 2005 @ 03:28 pm
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From http://www.cyclingplus.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=76151&whichpage=3
Hi folks, I've spoken with AndyB our designer and here is what he's said:
There have been several issues raised in the forum about Rohloff hubs that I feel need to be expanded upon.
[1] Michael Falk need have no worries about his Rohloff hub, once the hub has been filled with oil, it is then impossible to drain enough oil from the hub to cause a lubrication failure…there will always be around 12ml of oil adhering to the surfaces, to remove this oil would require a complete strip down to component parts or repeated rinsing with a solvent such as toluene.
[2] Obviously without examining the hub I can’t be sure but it is likely that, as the internal breather hole is inside the hollow axle, that there was a significant pressure drop during his flight which has caused the hollow axle to fill with oil, this is now finding its way out via the QR skewer.
[3] Small oil “leaks” are not a problem, unless the bike leaks oil onto an expensive carpet!
[4] I suggest that Michael gets on with his holiday and returns the hub to the Australian shop he bought it from upon his return (should the leak prove to be through the seals and not simply through the breather). I feel certain that they will be able to replace the seals with the current ones. The hub will not fail because of lack of oil.
[5] Thorn cycles did not start supplying Rohloff hubs until the early teething problems had been addressed…it is a shame that Michael didn’t buy a complete bike from us.
[6] Many owners seem to be fanatical about maintaining chain tension…I really don’t know why…there is no need to keep adjusting the tension...indeed a tight chain is an inefficient chain. Ideally you should adjust the tension the day before the chain became slack enough for it to derail when hitting a bump. If this attitude to tension adjustment is adopted then the eccentric BB, secured by M8 x 0.75 (Metric extra-fine) stainless grub screws, will be seen for what it is…a completely reliable, fool-proof, simple yet effective method of adjusting the chain. If you attempt to keep the chain at a tight tension, apart from wasting precious leisure time and probably decreasing chain life, you will allow the small holes created by the grub-screws to become “joined up” into a slot and slipping of the eccentric may then be experienced.
[7] We considered our eccentric design very carefully. Remember we have been tandem specialists for very many years. Wedge–type eccentrics are notorious for seizing solid…the more common clamp type allows the ingress of rust creating water into the shell and thence into other tubes (unless a heavy, solid lump of alloy is used as an eccentric)
We decided not to use sliding dropouts for two reasons:- Firstly we know that the rear dropout is the first area to fail on a frame that is used for many years, and because we offer a lifetime warranty we did not want ours to fail, we know that socketed dropouts are the strongest and most reliable. Secondly, when you adjust the tension with sliding dropouts, you have to reposition the brake blocks on the rim this may take five minutes or it may take a hour.(For any mountainbikers reading this thread I will add that if you use sliding dropouts with a disc then you loose the ability to brace the caliper through the seatstay to the chainstay with a gusset)
Andy Blance
Designer
Best regards
Robin Thorn
Thorn Cycles Ltd
Sep. 20th, 2005 @ 06:34 pm
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Raven Ale!
Originally uploaded by Thing1.
Seen in the Market Porter
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For posterity, here are some quotes from others about the Dun Run :-)
Dun run Report thread
(Thing2) Re: Dun run Report thread
I'm not going to write a full ride report, notably because the pizza is due to arrive in a minute 
Memorable points:
- Us arriving late and there still being loads of people around for us to set off with (and lead on a slightly interesting route 2 minutes later  )
- Being able to help Nutty with his spare tube/bike incompatibility issues 
- Joth deciding early on that he wasn't allowing anyone to overtake us  (well apart from Naggers et el & the 3 bikefix recumbents we played leap frog with)
- The continual view of a mass of moving red lights ahead every time you turned a corner
- Our average speed reading at the food stop  - we took the last fifty miles at a much more sensible pace.
- Breakfast
Talking of food, the pizza has arrived!!!
Thanks to Charlotte & her dad for the transport oganisation & driving - you are absolute stars 
Also thanks to Graham & Dave for keeping us company for the ride.
(caradoc) Re: Dun run Report thread
That was fun,
flying from the start in tandem with
charllote who set a stoonking pace, then latching on to the back of the
things Tandem who set an even greater pace. Shoot could they fly. It
was like sat behind a train at times and overtaking large quantities of
stunned dun runners. Me Graham, Stu and Alex just enjoyed the rided
behind.
Later we got lost, I always get lost, its almost
traditional. t comes from chasing red twinkly lights in the night.
You catch the last one and then search for the next, only they had
gone and we were lost. We found our way back and then set of chasing
red lights again
The dawn as always makes me smile, the faint glow, the gently warmth and that feeling of riding into the light, just stunning.
I
payed Yo yo with graham and the things flying Tandem for the last part.
Arriving at the cafe by the sea hungry, tired but buzzing.
Crap
food never tasted so good, watching the bathers was bonkers. seeing
Kitzy turn blue then even paler white was a worry but she seemed to
care not a lot so I didnt.
Anyway all should do it. All should do it with us, and all should do it before Dunwich Finally is no more.
(alexb) Re: Dun run Report thread
Well, I had a brilliant time. It was tough, very tough at points, but I
got through it. It amazed me that whatever happened, whether I rode
ahead or got dropped, the ACF caravan just picked me up again.
Tandems
are awesome, having hooked onto the back of the Things Tandem with Dave
(Caradoc) we were the fastest things on the road for ages, but that
pace was too much for me. I'd undergeared my fix and just couldn't keep
up downhill.
Also I was too conservative with my lights, I
hardly used the Smarts at all, whjen I could easily have run the 2.5W
(which was plenty in all the dark sections) for the whole ride and
probably added the 10W spot from time to time as well.
As it was Dave Stuart and I rode almost all of it on tiny LED headtorches, with some input from my Cateye 200 3 LED lamp.
Most surreal moment?
Possibly
the posh guy in the Jag lambasting us for being irresponsible by
cycling at night and for having "such bloody bright lights!"
(Kathy Pike) Re: Dun run Report thread
Doc, I'm sure you can do the Dun Run. After a while, people of similar
speed start to bunch together and support each other (this year it was
a bit odd, 'cos lots of people left early, and we were delayed by
Nutty, so we left late and were playing catch-up. Last year, we were
more leisurely). We had an average of 14mph. Others (namely the Things,
who have an outboard motor concealed in their frame) were faster,
others were slower.
(BornAgainCyclist)Re: Dun run Report thread
A really enjoyable ride or perhaps I should say adventure. Being one of
those who set of with the Sharlotte/Naggers group, I realised after an
hour or so that I wasn't going to last the whole night at their pace
and went and hid during one of the short breaks untill they went away.
By
chance I bumped into Things1 and 2 on their tandem (not literally), I
had remembered them from the Kent Festive ride back in December.
Noticing that Emma (the stoker/navigator) had a map reading light on
her helmet and the cockpit was equiped with GPS, while the front end
was equiped with what apeared to be ex-Concorde landing lights, I
decided this was the bike to be behind. Graham rode along with us - an
agreeable character whose conversation during the wee small hours, help
to keep the mind off the bits which were beginning to hurt (never got
around to asking if he was a C+/ACF person). Joth (the tandem pilot)
kept a nice average pace at around 15-16 mph for the whole distance and
didn't appear to mind me wheel sucking. The break at around 2am was
welcome and a little bizaar, stumbling into this brightly lit, noisy
village hall in the middle of nowhere, from the darkness, was a bit of
a shock to the system, I suppose we were there for about an hour - a
chance to stock up on carbs, meet, talk and stretch out. Already there
were a few battle scars on display from those who had fallen off. [snip]
Jul. 25th, 2005 @ 03:13 pm
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Fwd: Dun Run training ride, 050716
Originally uploaded by Joth.
IMG_0013: Meeting at Watson's Bakery, Ripley. Simon, Rob, Fi, Elleigh,
Emma, Vicky
IMG_0014: Top of Hungy Hill Lane (?) on route to Shere
IMG_0015: Cross roads with A283 at top of another hill!
IMG_0016: The survivers at Addlestone! Elligh, Simon, Vicky, Emma
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