Guardian article: Cycle events for all shapes and speeds

[αdαmsκι]

Cycle events for all shapes and speeds: from riding naked to Alpine grit roads | Rhiannon Edwards | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Now in its 11th year, [the Dun Run is a] 200km July moonlight ride [that] runs from London Fields Park in Hackney to Dunwich on the Suffolk coast. Initially a limited pay to ride event, the affectionately named "Dun Run" is now a free for all, with over 1,000 attendees last year. The course is mostly smooth tarmac, meaning all shapes and sizes of bikes are to be seen riding in the moonlight including, somewhat unbelievably, a penny farthing.

 

[clarion]

I don't believe it personally

[little miss mac]

That would be ridiculous. Typical lazy journalism.

[Regulator]

Who would be lunatic enough to do a 200km ride on a penny farthing, eh?

Typical, made it up after a few shandies at lunchtime journalism... Standards at the Grauniad are slipping even further...

*Harrumph*

[clarion]

They'll be suggesting someone did it on a wobblebike next.  I ask you...

[Charlotte]

[clarion]

Critical Mass ...has its origins in San Francisco in 1992

I'm not sure this is correct.  ISTR reading about them in the short-lived New Cyclist mag (later Cycling Today), which started in the late 80s.  I thought one of the earliest CMs was on a bridge somewhere like Montreal.

[Richard Fairhurst]

a varied often off-road route in the small village of Rutland

I know Rutland is Britain's smallest county, but really.

[rogerzilla]

The Dun Run piece is a lazy precis from Wikipedia.  I recognise some of the words, because I started that article 

[andygates]

It's been shooped, I recognise some of the pixels...