Although no rain has fallen for a few days everything is wet and mist hangs low over city and country (making the denkmal at Friedland very moody looking). This ride began with a 23-kilometre pedal with Gunnar Fehlau taking in tarmac only, although dirty. After Gunnar had to return to work, I continued opting to… Continue Reading

I channelled my inner Annemiek Van Vleuten and Julian Alaphilippe (winners of the 2019 Strade Bianche) on this ride with its mix of gravel, farm, forest and tarmac roads. I decided to hunt (not with a gun and it’s the hunting season here in Germany) for new trails, and this led to me undertaking more… Continue Reading

To paraphrase the English comic actor who is probably better known in Germany than his home country my ride today was almost ´same procedure as last time´. (Dinner for One) With the weather being unsettled my ride was a little bit dictated by whether it would rain, and I mean RAIN, rather than just being… Continue Reading

We chose to make buying cat food a little more fun by including a trip along the Leine Valley to look at Bovenden. When we hit the first section of gravel mist was hanging across the landscape and by the time, we had made our way along more gravel, tarmac and concrete farm roads the… Continue Reading

An ´Arctic Break Out´ is bringing cold air to Northern and Central Europe, but with the sun shining it didn´t feel so glacial until I was descending, where a strong wind chill did cut into me. I do wonder when the winter really sets in how I will fair. This time I rode the Kopfsteinpflaster… Continue Reading

It occurred to me as I stepped out for a ride and had progressed about 10 kilometres that I was taking this wonderful ability to ride so many cool trails and roads for granted. Before March 2019 when I moved here from London, going for a ride was hard work, not the ride itself but… Continue Reading

It was for rides like this that I built my Gö white roads bike for. I set out from Geismar along a smooth cycle path before I hit the gravel at the watch tower overlooking the city approaches of Goettingen. There after it was a mix of quiet roads, concrete forest and farm tracks and… Continue Reading

GöWeißeStraßen RideIt had been raining for a few days and more was forecast, I elected to ride to satisfy my inner Roubaix or Strada Bianche (GöWeißeStraßen). It didn’t happen – no rain and I might have preferred that to the strong wind that developed as I rode. I did get into the Roubaix/Strada Bianche zone… Continue Reading

To say I had cabin fever would be to overstate it, rather after a few days of heavy rain having pinned me to home I knew I needed to pedal. I can accept a good drenching if I am out, but I do not venture forth into it at the start of a ride. Today… Continue Reading

There was racing at the Goettingen velodrome this day and I took the opportunity to test out my Autumn/Winter new build and check out some winter routes on my ride to the action. My new build is a bike I intend to use to ride close to home following category* one and two ‘Gö Strada… Continue Reading

With a bike you can turn the simple act of buying cat food into something more. We rode to the ‘mean side of town’ this being Grone, not really, but it is seen as rough by some although I don’t see it. It is the industrial side (nearby is the railway station) and It was… Continue Reading

RideWe asked Tom our visitor from the Netherlands where he wanted to ride this day and he opted for a mixed surface spin out to Duderstadt and then the old East German Border (60km round trip). I meanwhile began to wonder if I am on some sort of never ending training camp simply because I… Continue Reading

Despite my best intentions to go for a road ride I ended up including gravel, concrete Panzer Weg and cobbles. A quick post tummy bug spin taking in lots of quiet tarmac close to home was my thinking, but like many best laid plans I went off script. I knew that I would be crossing… Continue Reading

With so few miles in my legs in recent months this ride, my first since coming to Germany, felt tough especially on the cobbled climb through what were the Zieten Barracks and then the abandoned Panzer Weg up to Kerstlingeröderfeld. Once a place where Chieftains and Leopards roamed. My fitness will come back to me… Continue Reading

The last days has seen huge rain fall, which although good for the forest, ground water and the water supply is still a pain. Today, and after a torrent in the morning the sun shone and made the trails look almost bianche as they dried. This ride is the smaller route version of the Gutingi… Continue Reading