Feldweg Omloop Home Predominantly a road ride this tour features four of my favorite asphalt descents in the Göttingen area and because I’m addicted to Ribinou, Chemin de Vignes or gravel there are five sectors of gravel plus one cobbled stretch to help link the ride together. I have included as much asphalt Feldweg and… Continue Reading
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Feldweg Home There aren´t many cobbled roads in the Gö area which can be put together to create a Paris Roubaix like tour. Instead, and to mimic Northern France (and the Flanders region) we ride nine sections of mild pave, and 33 gravel sectors the latter standing in for the kopfsteinpflaster. We combine elements of… Continue Reading
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You can see the Hoher Hagen and the Gauß Turm across the Leine Valley from almost anywhere in the Göttingen area. 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. Gauß was… Continue Reading
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Feldweg Home I have always loved cycle road races such as Paris Roubaix, Tro bro Leon and more recently the Strade Bianche, all of which leave the public roads for something a little different. The Gö Feldweg Omloop collection of rides offer a mix of asphalt and gravel feldweg plus Betonweg with as little public… Continue Reading
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DE Home – ENG Home – Manifest – Video/Links – Galerie – Gutingi Rides 30km Route – 40km Route – 56km Route (DE) – 56km Route – 80km Route – Tal Traverse 51km Brevet Card – Facebook – Strava – Komoot Schließ´ die Augen und stell Dir vor, Du seist in der Toskana, und mach´ sie… Continue Reading
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Gö Strade Bianche DE Home – ENG Home I rode out from the Gö Velodrome with the aim of crossing the valley going West to East. A running race had closed the paths/roads in the immediate area around the velodrome which meant I had to change my plans a little bit. I cheered them on!… Continue Reading
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Gö Strade Bianche DE Home or ENG Home Like the March Hare a character in the British curiouser and curiouser novel Alice in Wonderland we can all get a bit crazy in the springtime, but unlike that hare I am not perpetually waiting for the Mad Hatters six o´clock tea party . Instead, I live… Continue Reading
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It was on my Specialized Crux cyclo-cross that I almost fell into the arms of Hades the Greek god of the Under World. Fall to Earth I haven´t ridden the Crux since May 2022 when I clipped a rut hidden in long grass on a stretch of gravel, my 28mm road tyres fitted at the… Continue Reading
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Winter wetter (and cake) is an existential matter for any cyclist. What is the meaning of it all? I was not to be a hostage to my angst and motivated by the company of Sandra and Andrea we rode a variation of the Gö Feldweg Omloop 40km. Angst The weather is a major matter for… Continue Reading
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This was a scouting and GPS setting ride for a coming Gö Strade Bianche – Love of Mud Winter Series party ride. We visit the Kopfsteinpflaster Karussell and the Bürgertal Canyon plus the Rosengarten at Reinhausen. This route features several stiff climbs including one gravel ascent I walked up (25% plus) – the ride rocks… Continue Reading
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The ground had been swollen in the days before my ride by rain plus snow and the weather was bleak in attitude offering a taste of the winter yet to come. The trails will now become increasingly sodden until they freeze and then return to being a quagmire in places during the subsequent thaw. The… Continue Reading
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Hurra, der erste Gö Strade Bianche Kalender ist für 12.50 Euro zu haben! Der Kalender hat natürlich ein Fahrradthema, da wir die weißen Straßen von Gö feiern (weniger weiß im Winter) und Craig von Window Gazing, ein Mitglied der Gö Strade Bianche-Gruppe, hat einen coolen Job gemacht, künstlerisch auszudrücken, warum wir es lieben, in der… Continue Reading
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Feldweg Home My longest ride since my fall in May! Herbst is firmly with us in Lower Saxony despite some record-breaking high temperatures in October. Autumn (or Fall) means that sections of this tour featured a carpet of fallen leaves which crackle under wheel in the dry or rustle when on foot and are slippery… Continue Reading
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Feldweg Home Not drinking it but thinking about wine on this ride. The Feldweg Omloop is a homage to road race classics which are not confined to asphalt. Paris Tours (Oct 9) features 9 gravel sectors through the vineyards of France. This is the short Gö Feldweg Omloop. The previous route featured a section of… Continue Reading
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Feldweg Home Feedback is great and thanks to Sandra M for hers. Thus, we have revised once more the 54km Gö Feldweg Omloop (soon the 41 will follow) by taking out the cobbles adjacent to the railway at Obernjesa. Although the cobbles at the Obernjesa railway are fun especially where the rusting rails remain from… Continue Reading
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DE Home – ENG Home A shorter version of the Gö Strade Bianche held to the southwest of Göttingen heading through Rosdorf to the high ground above Volkerode. Whereafter, we descend back into the Leine Valley via Sieboldhausen. Keeping it all Westside. Gravel sector 15 (of 19) was especially poignant for me because this is where… Continue Reading
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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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During a flying visit to Germany by Tom and Irene from the Netherlands, we ate lots of cake, toured Göttingen and then went walking in the Harz Mountains (close to Gö). I have visited the Harz many times but after a year’s gap it was shocking to see large swathes of dead trees. It is… 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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With just a few days before the end of the nine Euro ticket valid on all regional transport we decided to cross state lines and revisit Kassel some 50 kilometres from Göttingen. Tickets deals for internal travel within my home state of Lower Saxony will remain. Kassel sits upon the Fulda River in Hesse (some… Continue Reading
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