A page featuring galleries and links for cycle tours undertaken during July 2024. I ride regularly, and I do not necessarily post a web page for each tour I do. I do post to Facebook, Garmin Connect, Strava and occasionally to Komoot and Instagram. Monthly Tours Zwischen den Bahnen in Gö – July 30 2024… Continue Reading
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A revised Gö Gravel informal social ride route featuring massive modern structures in the area around Göttingen. The Shock of the New Ride Featuring – The Colossi Logistics Centres, Gö Prison, Grundbachtalbrücke High Speed Rail, Power Lines, Windpower and the Autobahn. All have changed the landscape radically causing alarm and shock. I suggest humming Autobahn… Continue Reading
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I will remember this as one of my most favourite rides when Andrea, Julia and I celebrated the gravel stage of the 2024 Tour de France by mixing asphalt with Gö’s own Chemin Blanc. It might be the first time that I felt my mojo is on the up as I defuse the ticking bomb… Continue Reading
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A page featuring galleries and links for cycle tours undertaken during June 2024. I ride regularly, and I do not necessarily post a web page for each tour I do. I do post to Facebook, Garmin Connect, Strava and occasionally to Komoot and Instagram. Monthly Tours God Moving the Furniture About in Gö – June… Continue Reading
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My cardiac doctor at rehab during a consultation listed to me all the things I could do now after my heart attack… most were normal almost humdrum but when she said I could fly, I quickly interjected and said that´s amazing because I couldn´t do that before. It took a few moments for the joke… Continue Reading
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I took a picture of the group whilst suffering a heart attack and everyone pictured contributed to saving my life. A week ago, my life of decadence caught up with me when Plaque in a heart artery erupted causing a chain of events that semi-blocked the blood flow to this mighty pump. To my credit… Continue Reading
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A page featuring galleries and links for cycle tours undertaken during May 2024. I ride regularly, and I do not necessarily post a web page for each tour I do. I do post to Facebook, Garmin Connect, Strava and occasionally to Komoot and Instagram. Monthly Tours A Ride Interrupted in Gö.. – May 20 2024… Continue Reading
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This Gö Gravel informal gravel ride takes us out of Gö to the highest height and we think about Carl Frederick Gauß, who might be the patron saint of GPS and Strava. We also go down the asphalt descent of the Hoher Hagen which is a major test on the annual Tour d´Energy because that… Continue Reading
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A page featuring galleries and links for cycle tours undertaken during April 2024. I ride regularly, and I do not necessarily post a web page for each tour I do. I do post to Facebook, Garmin Connect, Strava and occasionally to Komoot and Instagram. Monthly Tours Viva Cycling in Gö – April 29 2024 The… Continue Reading
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Omloop Home – Ride Gallery In my defence and please note that the criminally insane cannot be held responsible for their actions – I am guilty as charged if you think this ride is absurd. It pitches the rider against the unknown knowns of the urban jungle including 29 sectors of city cobbles and a… Continue Reading
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Dirt road home We celebrated the recent holding of the Paris Roubaix cycle races with an informal Gö Gravel social ride . This is not a hell of the north like the Paris Roubaix bike race, instead it offers a flavor of the event. Gravel not Cobbles The landscape of the Leine Valley and Northern… Continue Reading
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Gö Feldweg Omloop Home In 2021 I suggested a campaign to guerilla garden the area with Cupressus Sempervirens tree seeds to propagate a Tuscan landscape to compliment the Göttingen white roads and I also suggested surreptitiously replacing asphalt with cobbles. In Gö most cobbles or Steinweg have been swept away in the march of progress.… Continue Reading
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A page featuring galleries and links for cycle tours undertaken during March 2024. I ride regularly, and I do not necessarily post a web page for each tour I do. I do post to Facebook, Garmin Connect, Strava and occasionally to Komoot and Instagram. Monthly Tours Gö Feldweg Omloop 51km – March 31 2024 A… Continue Reading
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Feldweg Home With memories of the road races Gent Wevelgem, Dwars door Vlaanderen, und the Tour of Flanders still ringing like cathedral bells in my ears, I rode a revised 50km east loop Gö Feldweg Omloop on a warm, sunny spring Easter day. Of course, in my head the races were on, not that my… Continue Reading
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A page featuring galleries and links for cycle tours undertaken during February 2024. I ride regularly, and I do not necessarily post a web page for each tour I do. I do post to Facebook, Garmin Connect, Strava and occasionally to Komoot and Instagram. Monthly Tours Getting my Idée Fixe in Gö – February 28… Continue Reading
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How to express how glad I was to be riding today….? I can´t yet. BUMP IN THE NIGHT Like things that go bump in the night and wake you from your happy slumber, illness or accident can rudely interrupt your life. It´s one thing to have a cold and need to sit tight as it… Continue Reading
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Route 72km – Route 60km – Route 54km – Route 40km – Asphalt Only – 4 Descents Omloop – Gö Cobbles – Gallery Xtra Gravel: Het Volk – Gö North 48km – Nord-Sud 56km Brevet Card – Facebook – Strava – Komoot The Gö Feldweg Omloop (Flemish word for a circuit or runde) is a ‘road’ based bike ride linking together… Continue Reading
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Feldweg Omloop Home On February 24, 2024, the latest edition of the Omloop Nieuwsblad previously known as Het Volk and as the Omloop van Vlaanderen (Circuit of Flanders) will be held, the first classic road race of the men´s and women´s pro-race road season. I celebrated the first day of February by riding a revised… Continue Reading
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A page featuring galleries and links for cycle tours undertaken during January 2024. I ride regularly, and I do not necessarily post a web page for each tour I do. I do post to Facebook, Garmin Connect, Strava and occasionally to Komoot and Instagram. Monthly Tours Gö Gravel the Shock of the New – January… Continue Reading
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Home dirt road Omloop When I ride my bike alone, I never listen to music, the engagement with the terrain is enough for me and when my mind wanders, I do often follow a train of thought in my head, as was the case on when I rode a revised 40km Gö dirt road Omloop… Continue Reading