Feldweg Home The Gö Feldweg Omloop without the gravel and cobbled sectors – riding the asphalt farmers roads, cycle paths and public roads. We start and finish at Geismar and visit Sieboldhausen six times! You might get a bit dizzy as you switch back and forth. Riding a local circuit, runde or in this case… Continue Reading
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Feldweg Home The Feldweg Omloop (circuit oder runde) 50km ridden on a road bike on a revised route (September 7 2022). Volkerode/Obernjesa/Stockhausen/Wendebachstasse/Reinhausen/Appenrode/Diemarden. The village at Reinhausen features an amazing rock face lining the road. More gravel and cobbles at the start plus we have cut out the public roads at Bremke. 53KM – 12.6 km… Continue Reading
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Feldweg Home Friedland/Bisenhausen loop – 60km (revised 28 August 2022) A revised route for the 60km Go Feldweg Omloop riding via Volkerode, Obernjesa, Friedland, Besenhausen, Reinhausen, Ballenhausen, and Diemarden. This version of the Omloop (Flemish word for a circuit or runde) has a new route out from the velodrome featuring a section of gravel and… Continue Reading
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A page featuring galleries and links for cycle tours undertaken during August 2022. 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 60km – August 28 ´Road´ Ride… Continue Reading
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DE Home – ENG Home We celebrate the Strade Bianche cycle race with an informal gravel ride featuring the ´Weißen Straßen´ of Göttingen plus Feldweg and public roads. The short 40km Gö Strade Bianche has been extensively revised and at Ballenhausen we miss out a series of stinging climbs featured on the other routes. We… Continue Reading
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Omloop Home DE Es war gut, den 40 km langen Gö Feldweg Omloop im Abstand von nur wenigen Tagen zu fahren. Bei der vorherigen Fahrt wurde ich von einer Frau auf einem gelben MTB aus den 1990er Jahren überholt. Das Lied Big Yellow Taxi spielte daraufhin in meinem Kopf. Diesmal habe ich Joni Mitchell nicht… Continue Reading
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Omloop Home ENG Stage four of the 2022 Women´s Tour de France from Troyes to Bar Sur Aub featured four sectors of ´Chemin Blanc´ and this inspired me to ride a revised short Gö Feldweg Omloop. This route has an additional gravel and cobbled sector (I am always looking for cobbles) with all other routes… Continue Reading
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A page featuring galleries and links for cycle tours undertaken during July 2022. 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 Scouting in Gö – July 26 2022 Gravel Ride… Continue Reading
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DE Home – ENG Home We celebrate the Strade Bianche race with an informal gravel ride featuring thirty-six sectors of the ´Weißen Straßen´of Göttingen plus concrete/asphalt feldweg, dirt, asphalt cycle paths and public roads. I rode out with Josh Schenk and Roland from the P-Cafe located within the medieval city walls of Göttingen in the Nikolai quarter… Continue Reading
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A page featuring galleries and links for cycle tours undertaken during June 2022. 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 Wonderful Life in Gö – June 30 2022 Road… Continue Reading
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A page featuring galleries and links for cycle tours undertaken during May 2022. 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 Broken May has seen me off my bike recovering… Continue Reading
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At this time of the year the landscape is brightened by pink and white and, on this ride, we followed the blooming Cherry, and the apple blossom the latter now emerging at the end of the April. In Germany the cherry trees will be harvested in July and the yield is expected to be down… Continue Reading
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A page featuring galleries and links for cycle tours undertaken during April 2022. 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 Blossom in Gö – April 27 2022 Gravel/Road Ride… Continue Reading
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I ventured out to ride a ´road´ based bike tour that links together asphalt and Betonweg field roads with cobbles and gravel, plus cycle paths and public roads. Feldweg Home The long Göttingen Feldweg Omloop without the gnarly gravel sections above Volkerode. Living the dream – Flanders and Paris Roubaix. Bravo! – Tanja Erath for… Continue Reading
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DE Home – ENG Home The ´Weißen Straßen´of Göttingen On January 5, 2022, I rode into a winter storm to set the GPS for the short version of the Gö Strade Bianche, I became very cold, and I made a navigational error. I rode old school, rim brakes and 28mm tyres. My ride today corrected the error,… Continue Reading
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The small Gö Feldweg Omloop ridden on a majority of Betonweg, or mixed surface farm/forest roads and cycle paths closed to general motor traffic. A homage to the Spring road race classics. It felt like riding in the Low Countries – I was head banging a wall of wind. Thankfully no rain! It was great… Continue Reading
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A page featuring galleries and links for cycle tours undertaken during March 2022. 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 Strade Bianche 75.6km – March 27 2022 Gravel/Road… Continue Reading
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The ‘Gö Gravel Strade Bianche Hommage‘ follows a route we ride because it reminds us of the famous Strade Bianche ‘road’ races (for men and women) on the white roads of Tuscany, from Siena to Siena. Close your eyes and think yourself in Tuscany and then open them at ride end. This amended longer route… Continue Reading
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The majority of the ride was on Betonweg or mixed surface farm/forest roads and cycle paths closed to general motor traffic. On this ride in my head, I was riding the Gent Wevelgem cycle race, but not at their pace! This version of the Feldweg Omloop misses out the southern stages to Bisenhausen. Feldweg Home… Continue Reading
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(English below) Gö-Strade Bianche ist eine Radtour (kein Rennen), in der die „weißen Straßen“ von Göttingen eine wesentliche Rolle spielen. Die Idee kam uns, weil uns, als Neu-Göttinger und hoffnungslose Radsport-Romantiker, die hiesigen Feldwege in ihrer sommerlichen Weiße an die legendären Strade Bianche der Toscana erinnerten. Also dachten wir uns, dass es ja nicht schaden… Continue Reading