Exmouth Exodus V - 26-27 June 2010

Want to ride through the night to the seaside with a bunch of like minded people? If you do, you might have already tried the Dunwich Dynamo, from Hackney to Dunwich. We did, and we loved it, but it's a long old way back to the West Country from the North Suffolk coast. And so it is that the Exmouth Exodus came to be. It's based on the Dunwich Dynamo model and will be:

A free to enter ride through the night to the seaside, about 100 miles

On a Saturday near a full moon that doesn't clash with the DD. The date for 2010 is 26-27 June. Yes, we know Dartmoor's the next day but there's only so many weekends in the year, sorry. Plus, you're man (woman) enough to do them both.

Starting in Bristol, and finishing at Exmouth

On mostly minor roads, with three major climbs and plenty of other lumps and bumps, as well as some flat bits...

There's lots more you might want to know, and if you cast your eyes over the FAQs you'll probably find the info you need. if not, just post a message on the forum, or contact us and we'll get in touch.

The Exmouth Exodus IV: what hath God wrought?

Crikey. Three weeks of unbroken sunshine and what do we get for the night of the Exodus? The tempest, that's what. Biblical rain, the kind to turn route sheets and hardy cyclists alike to sodden mush. Massive kudos to the 70 or so brave souls that turned out, especially those on fixeds, or wearing trainers wrapped in plastic bags, or running lights too weak to penetrate the walls of rain by more than a foot or so. Of those, about 60 made it to the end to find Exmouth serene and calm and basking in bright June sunshine, as if the cataclysmic events of the night before were some kind of Hieronymus Bosch nightmare vision of a distant cycling hell.

Still, at least there was a tailwind.

Big thanks to everyone who stayed up all night to make the ride a success: Chuffy and Baggy on the tea van (sorry to anyone that missed the second tea stop, the van was late due to weather-related mercy missions), Helen, Chris and Suzi at North Curry, Dawn and crew at the Harbour View. And thanks to all the riders: we'll have some stories from this one...

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