It rained and it snowed (more like sleet) and I got cold and wet scouting ´All Along the Watchtowers´ an idea for a gravel burgen (castle) ride. I started at Judenplatz where once stood a synagogue which was burnt to the ground in 1930´s by the Nazi´s, a fitting place to start my ride of… Continue Reading
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Gravel/Road RideAfter the successful screening of the film For the Love of Mud the evening before five of us met at the velodrome on what was a cold day. Being dry there was little chance of black ice. When I comment on the weather to locals, they often remind me that it can reach minus… Continue Reading
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Burgundy and brown, not to everyone’s taste but to me they look cool. More importantly it would seem that I have finally embraced the dark side, out have gone my skinny cyclo cross tyres and I have now opted for a pair of Panaracer Gravel King´s. I have fitted a 38 to the front and… Continue Reading
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At the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt (1806) Napoleon Bonaparte defeated a combined Prussian/Saxony Army and occupied the 460 states that made up ´Germany´ at the time. Napoleon subsequently reduced the myriad of statelets once overseen by the Holy Roman Empire (Austria) to just 32 and he made his younger brother Jerome monarch of Westphalia, which included… Continue Reading
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A brand-new bike was inducted into the world of gravel riding this day when we were joined by gravel debutant David who was riding a very clean and new Cannondale Top Stone. It didn´t take long for the Love of Mud to draw us onto the wet stuff and we hit what in summer is… Continue Reading
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Almost every area will have something that has been abandoned with some long since forgotten and rubbed away. On this short gravel ride, we passed two lost villages, at Kerstlingeröder Feld and Omborn. The first was badly hit during the Thirty Years War (which devastated the German speaking states) and what was left was then… Continue Reading
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I felt inspired after watching ´For the Love of Mud´ by Benedict Campbell with Magdalena Röhrich, Alexander Dittel, Ole Dahms and members of Radsportgemeinschaft Hannover e.V., to venture out on my cyclo cross bike. The day felt cold, was damp and mist hung over the valley, thus ideal for embracing mud. I mixed gravel with… Continue Reading
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Autumn is still conjuring up some warm and sunny weather, so much so that to go fast would get you home quicker or lead you to find greater kilometres. Or you can cruise sociably whilst riding all the hills in the 46 and not drop down, leg stretching indeed, but slower. The Ride Garmin Connect:… Continue Reading
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Unlike my first RTF event I attended way back in August, 2019, this time there was no number to pin to my back. This slight disappointment was quickly erased as I hit the trails on the Wieter-Plesse-Biking-CTF organised by Cicli Club Northeim. The club had put together a challenging route which featured 95% forstwirtschaftswege (forest… Continue Reading
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A sedate lunchtime ride we agreed but then Gunnar Fehlau elects to take us up a long single off-road climb (Hautflügler Trail) and then down a 50kph gravel descent. Brilliant! After I said farewell to Gunnar and since the weather was so nice, I went home via the Hainberg Forest where the colours of autumn… Continue Reading
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Last week was all about digital interface meltdown (my laptop died) and I opted not to add my weekend ride to Strava etc. Today with autumn pretending to be summer I had to pop out for a ride and I stuck close to home as time was short. Not to have ridden on this day… Continue Reading
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It was a week where my computer decided it would rather push up digital daisies (thankfully all backed up – fingers crossed). I then had to buy a new one and load all the appropriate software onto it (remembering passwords!!!). This was followed by… I must have done this a hundred times correctly, I put… Continue Reading
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It was a day full of things that needed to be done and many showers, some heavy which were interloped by sunshine. We found time for a gentle late afternoon ride in between all things and we rode at times under, but not over rainbows. The Ride Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/2757785091 Garmin Connect: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/4118295652 Cycle Fahrrad Goettingen… Continue Reading
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Making a quick visit to see us was my old friend Neil Simpson from London who was in Germany to commissaire two UCI mountain bikes events. We took the opportunity to undertake three gravel rides. Brings Speed – September 17 2019 Gravel/road ride On this lunchtime ride we were joined by Neil Simpson an old… Continue Reading
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We rode mostly on the road linked together with gravel sections to the southern geodetic meridian stone placed on top of a hill by Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1819 at Friedland. The gravel climb up along an old pilgrim’s route was leg breaking (20% in places) and we felt quite dizzy by the time we… Continue Reading
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Having been busy at Eurobike and riding 100’s of kilometres (in the dark) Gunnar Fehlau has been AWOL from our lunchtime rides, thus we have not ridden together for a little while. Today our lunch time ride was interrupted by a puncture for Gunnar and after that we sort of freestyled taking fresh trails which… Continue Reading
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Rain was falling and I set off regardless. I wore my ‘Love of Mud’ cap in homage to what I expected to be a dirty ride. It wasn’t the rain abated; I took off my rain jacket and I found most trails were already drying. This ride was the ‘Low’ section from my ‘High and… Continue Reading
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To paraphrase the great Jens Voight and I use almost his complete words and sentiment in an imaginary conversation I had after my September 1 gravel ride. “SHUT UP BODY, it isn’t on Strava”. “But I ache” and “we hit the dirt” says my body. “But it isn’t on Strava” repeats my mixed up head.… Continue Reading
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Two 430 metre hills dominate the approach to Goettingen from the south east and upon each a castle was built. We spun out along a mix of gravel, cycle paths and road, which included my favourite the Kopfsteinpflaster Carrousel to seek out the Burg Alte Gleichen (castle). Just after the carousel we approached the Alte… Continue Reading
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Training camp? I think not – a day for a cool gravel ride with Gunnar Fehlau and we almost reprised the route we rode for the first time with him in March. I can’t quite believe that I have been here five months! This time and although we followed similar sections we pedalled over a… Continue Reading
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