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  • Waterloo in Gö – January 13 2022 Road/Gravel Ride

    We rode out from Göttingen onto the defunct Gartelbahn to Waterloo, and no, we did not pedal as far as Belgium or London. I had for many years lived in London close to Waterloo and the Station, and now by some odd quirk of fate I find myself living a short bike ride from another… Continue Reading

    on January 13, 2022
  • Old School 43km Strade Bianche in Gö – January 5 2022 Gravel/Road Ride

    On receiving my new ´gravel´ bike in September of 2021 I recalled that my first such machine was my road going Eddy Merckx (Columbus SLX) fitted with 25mm tourist tyres (they barely fitted) and my first mountain bike was a cyclo cross Orbit (Reynolds 531c) equipped with straight bars. Now, in a new year (2022)… Continue Reading

    on January 5, 2022
  • Gö Strade Bianche 56.50km – December 18 2021 Gravel/Road Ride

    DE Home – ENG Home DE Wir feiern das Strade Bianche-Rennen mit den ´Weißen Straßen´ von Göttingen sowie Beton-, Schotter-, Asphalt-Radwegen und öffentlichen Straßen. Es war nass und kalt, aber es war herzerwärmend, Jan Menkens zu treffen.Diese überarbeitete Tour hat Hügel und beinhaltet eine neue Westseite und einen Wechsel am Ende der Fahrt. Angetrieben von Cadbury Dairy… Continue Reading

    on December 18, 2021
  • Gö Strade Bianchi 40km – November 29 2021 Gravel/Road Ride

    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

    on November 29, 2021
  • Gö Christmas Market 2021 – November 25 2021

    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

    on November 26, 2021
  • Gö Stadtwald Hainberg Forst Tour – November 22 2021 Gravel Ride

    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

    on November 24, 2021
  • Farm Roads in Gö – November 14 2021 ´Road´ Ride

    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

    on November 14, 2021
  • Road Race Gravel & Pave Reports 2021

    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

    on November 9, 2021
  • Not Cringy in Gö – November 1 2021 Road Ride

    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

    on November 2, 2021
  • Hohengandern Kolonnenweg – October 14 2021 Gravel/Road Ride

    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

    on October 15, 2021
  • Scouting GÖ Strade Bianchi 100 – October 2 2021 Gravel/Road Ride

    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

    on October 3, 2021
  • Riding with Tom in Gö – September 27/28 2021 Gravel Rides

    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

    on September 29, 2021
  • Riding into the 21st Century in Gö – September 26 2021 Gravel/Road Ride

    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

    on September 27, 2021
  • A World Turned Upside Down – My New Gravel Bike

    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

    on September 26, 2021
  • Liebe Kopfsteinpflaster – September 17 2021 Cobbles/Gravel/Asphalt Ride

    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

    on September 17, 2021
  • Welcome to Halle – September 11 2021 Gravel/Road Ride

    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

    on September 13, 2021
  • Ascending the Gleichens in Gö – August 20 2021 Gravel Ride

    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

    on August 20, 2021
  • Strade Bianche de Gutingi / Partypace – August 15 2021 Gravel/Road Ride

    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

    on August 16, 2021
  • Just a bit more in Gö – August 14 2021 Road Ride

    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

    on August 15, 2021
  • Many Shades of Gradient in Gö – August 9 2021 Gravel Ride

    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

    on August 9, 2021

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