Cycling and Life
DE Home – ENG Home – Manifest – Video/Links – Galerie – Gutingi Rides 55km Route (DE) – 55km Route – 40km Route – 66km Route – 72km Route – 84km Route Schließ´ die Augen und stell Dir vor, Du seist in der Toskana, und mach´ sie erst am Ende der Radtour wieder auf. Strade Bianche… Continue Reading
Featured images used as a ‘cover’ for each month since April 2018 when Cyclesport.London became Velo Klubhaus.com. See also Gallery for lots of pictures from across Velo Klubhaus. December 2021An Autumn sun illuminates the trail below the Gö Stadtwald from Mackenrode to Klein Lengden. November 2021Riding into Autumn October 2021Welcome to Halle. September 2021Gö Strade… Continue Reading
DE Wir feiern das Strade Bianche-Rennen mit den ´Weißen Straßen´ von Göttingen sowie Beton-, Schotter-, Asphalt-Radwegen und öffentlichen Straßen. Dies ist die überarbeitete Route für kurze Fahrten – Mehr Tours. Heute führte uns der nasse Strade zurück zur Giro dÍtalia Etappe 7 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF33PS8GaV4 ENG We celebrate the Strade Bianche race featuring the ´Weißen Straßen´of… Continue Reading
March 2019 saw me in my new home city in Central Germany and two years on I am living in a time of a pandemic. I began writing these letters at the start of the pandemic in an attempt to understand Germany better and to get to grips with my relationship with the United Kingdom.… Continue Reading
DE Montag Blues Buster Tour mit knapp einer von 28 Kilometern gefahren auf einer öffentlichen Straße und Gefahren bei Herbstsonne. ENG Monday Blues buster tour with just under one of 28 kilometres ridden on a public road and ridden in Autumn sunshine. The route included a number of World War Two aircraft crash sites and… Continue Reading
The average life expectancy of a washing machine is ten years and if excessively clunking noisily or if your machine gives off a fugue then it’s probably telling you the end is nigh. Washing Machine BluesIf you live a clean life, you may push a machine beyond the average, but for a cyclist especially when… Continue Reading
Results, video and picture links from cycle road races held in 2021 which feature gravel, pave and dirt. Road races that have in common a touch of the ‘Roubaixesque’ about them. I am now based in Germany and so sadly I cannot say that all the video links can be viewed in other countries or… Continue Reading
I had no reason to cringe (or cringy) on my ride this day, nor did I have cause to be Sus (suspect). In addition, I did not feel lost, the latter in the context of feeling discombobulated, also, I had no reason to express Sheesh (disbelief). Having grown up in England all these words are… Continue Reading
Josh Schenk and I ventured into the evening rain to visit the now defunct internal border which until 1989 separated Germany. The border ran for 1,381 kilometres from the Baltic Sea to what was then Czechoslovakia, the East German Government called it their anti-fascist barrier but in reality, it reflected the economic and political challenge… Continue Reading
DE Scouting der Gö Strade Bianche 100 und Blick auf die großen Räder der Zuckerrübenroder ENG I rode to recover from a late-night party with a ride scouting sectors of gravel to be included into a 100km version of the Gö Strade Bianchi. I managed to add four sectors which may push the rode beyond… Continue Reading
Gö Strade Bianche mit Tom – September 28 2021 My new bike Tom on a visit to Göttingen from the Netherlands has recently been riding in Tuscany and he wanted to ride the Gö Strade Bianche. This we did beginning with a westside loop, riding along the Leine Valley, into Thuringia and across the now… Continue Reading
My new bike is a ride into the 21st century and I met with Josh Schenk and Gunnar Fehlau at the Göttingen Velodrome for a party pace spin. Although I am now signed up for this century, and after much barracking I might add, Gunnar contrarily abandoned the new order and rode a fixed single… Continue Reading
I think the concept of Cancel Culture as a thing (or Political Correctness and WOKE) is daft, because to frame any thoughful test of accepted narratives in negative terms is at variance with moving forward. To my mind it helps to test orthodoxy – it can allow us to learn from the past, to live… Continue Reading
It has crossed my mind several times to conduct guerrilla gardening and line the white gravel roads of Göttingen with Tuscan tree seeds. I believe it would make the area just a bit cooler! Now, a second thought has hit me, what about guerrilla cobble stone laying? There are cobbles in Göttingen but nothing of… Continue Reading
The first turn of the train wheels broke the stiction holding me to my home because in the past two years plus I have not ventured away. Although I have explored my new home in Göttingen with enthusiasm my last big journey was when I moved from London. The Covid pandemic being a strong reason… Continue Reading
I am beginning to feel human again after suffering a bug and although Craig my ride companion had to wait for me on the hills (danke) I didn´t grovel as I might have feared. I am still scouting a long version of an ´All Along the Watchtower´ gravel ride (and a road version) featuring the… Continue Reading
DE – Gö Strade Bianche (66km tour), mit Gö Grupetto Partypace Schließ´ die Augen und stell Dir vor, Du seist in der Toskana, und mach´ sie erst am Ende der Radtour wieder auf. Im Staub zu reiten war poetisch. Danke an alle, die auf mich gewartet haben! ENG – Gö Strade Bianche (66km route), with Gö… Continue Reading
The idea was to ride just under 30km at a gentle pace as it was, we did a wee bit more at 45 kilometres because the sun was shining, we had our summer shoes and our wheels were rotating nicely and that´s how it goes sometimes. We picnicked at Ludolfhausen church (1562) a type of… Continue Reading
The area where I live in Central Europe is not mountainous, but it is hilly, to go beyond this I would need to visit the Harz where the Brocken stands at 1,141 metres or the Wurmberg at 971 (the latter an offroad cycling mecca). Göttingen sits in the Leine Valley and is flanked to the west… Continue Reading
After a hard ride of 84kms on gravel the previous weekend I wanted a simple relaxed road tour. The sky above me was rumbling with thunder and rain clouds hung overhead, but with no fixed route in my mind I was able to avoid the worst of the rain. When it encroached toward me, I… Continue Reading
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