OK, don´t tell anyone that I scouted a section of All Along the Watchtower on foot, but in my defence, it was hard on the legs and the terrain was challenging at times. Despite no pedals to turn I must admit it was fun. What was cool is that I found another warte, this being… Continue Reading
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TourThe sun was shining for a second day and we needed no coaxing to ride again to enable us to soak up the warmth to help recovery from a bug. The proposed All Along the Watchtower gravel ride has taken yet another new turn with the possible introduction of the Rosdorf Warte atop the Wartberg.… Continue Reading
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I long ago realised, as the wonderful Slits punk band said, that I am a “Weekend Warrior, Bread and Butter Hunter” thus I tend to find my modest pleasures close to home etc… So, having been off the bike for over a week we turned once more a trip to buy cat food into a… Continue Reading
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The fifth in the ‘It’s A Small Cycling World’ series features old school cyclo cross. The course is marked intermittently with rope and some sections have fallen into the mud. Lap scoring is done with eye, pencil and paper an almost impossible task on muddy days. Hooray for transponders. Links: It’s a small cycling world… Continue Reading
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OK, so how do places get named? This crossed our minds when we got to the Lumpensammler Buche or Rag Collectors Beech. The German language can be fun, but don´t ask Mark Twain because he would have told you that it is “awful”, I rather would say that it is confusing. Today, the ride took… Continue Reading
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I finally rode the long haul up to the Gleichen Hills hindered just a wee bit by fallen trees across the route. The Gleichen Hills can be seen from a long way off and although almost all the castle on the Neu Gleichen has been rubbed out – the closely adjacent Alte Gleichen features a… Continue Reading
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A little while ago I embraced the dark side and put away my cyclo cross tyres and opted for gravel specific rubber instead. Making this paradigm switch in my head reminded me when I first embraced cyclo cross and also rode the Paris Roubaix sportive. Tyre choice has always been a lively subject for discussion;… Continue Reading
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The intention was to kick off the next scouting ride for the All Along the Watchtowers ride where I last left off and make the climb up to the Gleichen Hills and their castles. I would then return to Göttingen via the final watchtower at Diemarden. Alas, when I showed someone my route and outlined… Continue Reading
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Many horses seemed to be laughing with us and not at us as we respectfully passed them by. It was a day for broad grins and smiles. Helmfried and I met at the velodrome and then followed our noses, deciding which way to proceed by simply picking the coolest looking trail. It was tough at… Continue Reading
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We rode out of Lower Saxony into Thuringia on a cold day in more ways than one for the former East German state. This must have been a recovery ride for Josh Schenk who has plans for some great rides in 2020 and he led us out to the old internal border which is now… Continue Reading
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After the steady ascent of the cobbled climb through the Zieten Terrace (nee barracks) I began where I left off scouting a gravel ride that features local castles and watchtowers etc. Last time I visited the Grona (now just a monument stone) and the almost intact Plesse Burge (castles) plus the Dreckwarte and Die Rieswarte… Continue Reading
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The fourth in the ‘It’s A Small Cycling World’ series features two riders who have elected to ride in the gutter away from the pave. Sadly, the gutter is a water filled mud trench. Links: It’s a small cycling world 1 – For the love of pave Part One It’s a small cycling world 2… Continue Reading
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It rained and it snowed (more like sleet) and I got cold and wet scouting ´All Along the Watchtowers´ an idea for a gravel burgen (castle) ride. I started at Judenplatz where once stood a synagogue which was burnt to the ground in 1930´s by the Nazi´s, a fitting place to start my ride of… Continue Reading
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Gravel/Road RideAfter the successful screening of the film For the Love of Mud the evening before five of us met at the velodrome on what was a cold day. Being dry there was little chance of black ice. When I comment on the weather to locals, they often remind me that it can reach minus… Continue Reading
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It was great to meet up with Gunnar, Helmfried and Josh at the velodrome to ride the Strade Bianche de Guthingi. Sadly, Gunnar had to leave us early on as we three continued onward. Both Josh and Helmfried are a mine of local information and I think Helmfried is right to rename the ride the… Continue Reading
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A road cycle ride south of Göttingen took us through an area that had born witness to the ravages of one of Europe’s most savage wars. In spring like weather, we pedalled out to Jühnde on what we thought would be tarmac only, but we took a shortcut and therefore rode a big chunk of… Continue Reading
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Apart from travelling during the evening when I lived in London, I cannot recall the last time I rode a bike in the dark. In London it wasn´t real darkness because of the street lighting etc. so I can say today I was riding in Bible Black for the first time in many years. I… Continue Reading
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The mud out on the trails was pronounced and I haven´t been as dirty or as cold as this for a long time – sorry bike for putting you through the mire. But it was very Roubaix/Strade Bianche out there and of course deep down I loved it. I repeated the ride I had undertaken… Continue Reading
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Burgundy and brown, not to everyone’s taste but to me they look cool. More importantly it would seem that I have finally embraced the dark side, out have gone my skinny cyclo cross tyres and I have now opted for a pair of Panaracer Gravel King´s. I have fitted a 38 to the front and… Continue Reading
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My last ride of the year was dictated by only a short period of time being available to me and this was true of my Christmas. I went looking for more gravel sections for Gö Strade Bianche and I spent a lot of time going back the way I came after a trail would just… Continue Reading
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