A page featuring galleries and links for cycle tours undertaken during May 2024. 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 Gravel Hoher Hagen Gauß Tour in Gö –… 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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A page featuring galleries and links for cycle tours undertaken during April 2024. 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 Viva Cycling in Gö – April 29 2024 The… 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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A page featuring galleries and links for cycle tours undertaken during March 2024. 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 51km – March 31 2024 A… 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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A page featuring galleries and links for cycle tours undertaken during February 2024. 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 Getting my Idée Fixe in Gö – February 28… Continue Reading
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How to express how glad I was to be riding today….? I can´t yet. BUMP IN THE NIGHT Like things that go bump in the night and wake you from your happy slumber, illness or accident can rudely interrupt your life. It´s one thing to have a cold and need to sit tight as it… 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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A page featuring galleries and links for cycle tours undertaken during January 2024. 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 Gravel the Shock of the New – January… 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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A page featuring galleries and links for cycle tours undertaken during December 2023. 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 Memory Lane in Gö – December 30 2023 When… Continue Reading
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A page featuring galleries and links for cycle tours undertaken during November 2023. 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 Shiver Me Timbers in Gö – November 26 2023… Continue Reading
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A page featuring galleries and links for cycle tours undertaken during September 2023. 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 Gö Gravel Ride of the Falling Leaves –… 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