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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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After a hard ride of 84kms on gravel the previous weekend I wanted a simple relaxed road tour. The sky above me was rumbling with thunder and rain clouds hung overhead, but with no fixed route in my mind I was able to avoid the worst of the rain. When it encroached toward me, I… Continue Reading
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DE Home – ENG Home – Manifest – Video/Links – Galerie – Gutingi Rides 55km Route (DE) – 55km Route – 42km Route – 66km Route – 72km Route – 84km Route Schließ´ die Augen und stell Dir vor, Du seist in der Toskana, und mach´ sie erst am Ende der Radtour wieder auf. Strade Bianche… Continue Reading
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A ride in celebration of the Strade Bianche race held in Tuscany, Italy. This tour featured the ´Weißen Straßen´ of Göttingen plus concrete, dirt, asphalt cycle paths and public roads. I began the Strade Bianche de Gutingi at the Gö velodrome and 51 gravel sectors followed. The route took me along the Leine Valley north… Continue Reading
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I have undertaken three rides so far to scout a Göttingen castles asphalt tour, firstly the Rusteberg and Gleichen Castles and then the Grone, Jühnde and Berlepsch Castles were added. My most recent was a visit to Niedeck where I looked up at the summit of the Kronenberg but I didn´t take the gravel road… Continue Reading
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In the two previous scouting rides for a Gö castles tour, I first visited the Rusteberg and Gleichen Castles and on the second the Grone, Jühnde and Berlepsch Castles were added. This ride picked up where the Rusteberg and Gleichen Castles tour left off the intended route at Benniehausen Shortly after Benniehausen we rode sections… Continue Reading
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We ventured away from the Dransfeld Ramp (an abandoned railway) and rode into the Börl Valley via the village of Hetjershausen (the village well survives) to the west of Göttingen. In Groß Ellershausen the Lindenhof pub still stands and this was frequented by the first German Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck and poet Heinrich Heine, and… Continue Reading
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WH Auden, the Anglo/American poet wrote ´Funeral Blues´ or also known as ´Stop all the Clocks´ for a 1936 satirical political play (The Ascent of F6) and then subsequently he rewrote it removing several lines which referred to specific people and events in the 1930s. It became a more personal work thereafter. The poem can… Continue Reading
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DE Heute regnet es nicht und so haben wir dieses Zeitfenster genutzt, um Goosegog Kuchen zu reiten. 47km – 16 gravel sektors. ENG It has been raining almost every day lately, but there are windows of opportunity when it remains dry and on this day, we took advantage of this to ride to Besenhausen to… Continue Reading
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(Lost villages) It´s good to stop and think… I did that, at what has become a regular riding spot for me. In my first week of moving to Germany I sat on a bench at Kesterlingrodefeld and wondered at what I had done. I was now an immigrant. Käthe KollwitzI began this ride at a… Continue Reading
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We were tempted to continue watching the UCI MTB from Les Gets on the TV and sit out a ride because there was also a forecast of rain…. We almost succumbed to staying home as we reminisced about our visit to Les Gets and the UCI World Cup many years ago. We rode the Col… Continue Reading
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DEDer Waterkoud dem Sonnenschein und die Felder sind voller Bienen, die sich von der lila Phacelia ernähren ENGAfter a week where the Leine Valley felt if it was being suffocated by Waterkoud, a Dutch word for wet hanging cloud, it was therefore a surprise to wake up on Saturday to find a strong sun shining!… Continue Reading
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The Iron Curtain was a political and physical division created after World War Two splitting Europe into East and West. I rode my gravel bike to visit an abandoned bunker part of what was once the German Internal Border erected to enforce this schism close to the city of Göttingen. Salt the Fields?After the war,… Continue Reading
