By Prof. Jürgen Weber created for Göttingen Stadt Halle in 1963/64. In the centre of the city a crouching thinking figure sits alone whilst around him there is a pulsating city environment bursting with vitality. The fact the figures are naked and somewhat involved with each other is symbolic of human existence I assume. The… Continue Reading
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I have a gothic heart and soul because I am haunted by what might have been, and gothic literature which I have read extensively since my near-death experience is about people being haunted by events, memories, thoughts and monstrous things conjured up from the subconscious. Victor Hugo wrote in 1832 in the gothic novel the… 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 I scouted the Easter Monday Gö Gravel ride starting and finishing at the Allez Club House, Göttingen. The route is based on the Het Volk version of the Omloop series. I rode my Omloop bike with skinny road slick tyres with… Continue Reading
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The Tuspo´s hosted the Südniedersachsen-Cross supported by Zahnkunst Göttingen at the Electric Ride Park Hardegsen. The Gö Gravel crew got there in time to see the women race and we made noise, lots of noise with whistles, a rattle and bells. It was great fun and I can´t recall the last time I was at… Continue Reading
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Omloop Home Inspired by stage nine of the 2024 Tour De France (men) I have been riding a series of rides that feature mostly asphalt roads interspersed with gravel, Feldweg and Betonweg. In October the ASO who organise the TdF also host Paris Tours a classic race on the men´s road race calendar and it… Continue Reading
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Gö Gravel Rides Schließ´ die Augen und stell Dir vor, Du seist in der Toskana, und mach´ sie erst am Ende der Radtour wieder auf. Gö Gravel (Previously Gö Strade Bianche) is an informal group, there is no central committee and, rather it’s a simple collective of friendly-minded cyclists. We hold no data base of… Continue Reading
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Bon Courage is an antidote for fear, it allows me to take a step towards rather than retreat from people or activities even if at times it feels like I put one foot forward and three back. Much of this is related to my recent heart attack and having had my world turned upside down. Pharma… 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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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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Victoria and I visited Jena where we met Josh Schenk on his completion of the Thüringen Erfahren Asphalt bike tour. The route having passed close to the city and the battlefield of Jena. Josh rode through heavy rain but it dried out later Thüringen Erfahren Asphalt 2024 Gö Graveller Josh Schenk rode the asphalt version… 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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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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The enormous success of the film Oppenheimer at the Hollywood Oscars fits nicely with our Gö Gravel visit to the Forum Wissen in Gottingen. It was in Göttingen, Germany that the ´Father of the A-Bomb´ earned his doctorate in physics from the city´s university in 1927 under Max Born who had established a world leading… 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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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
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Bad Harzburg reinvented itself from being a mining town into a wellness/spa resort during the 19th century. It became and remained a ´Riveira´ like town of the Harz Mountains, with cake shops, cafes, gardens, and all sorts of things to do when patrons of the clinics sneak out and escape their health regime. Most people… Continue Reading
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There is much to explore in and around Göttingen and after a short train ride we visited the towns of Bad Sooden and Allendorf in Hesse. The towns are in view of each other but are distinct separated by the Werra River and until recently administratively. The story of Bad Sooden and Allendorf is typical… Continue Reading
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