At the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt (1806) Napoleon Bonaparte defeated a combined Prussian/Saxony Army and occupied the 460 states that made up ´Germany´ at the time. Napoleon subsequently reduced the myriad of statelets once overseen by the Holy Roman Empire (Austria) to just 32 and he made his younger brother Jerome monarch of Westphalia, which included… Continue Reading
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My final ride of the Autumn 2019 as we move into Winter. It is warm in Göttingen, but rain is forecast and at the end of December we could see the temperature plummet to minus 5/6! What is good for the morale and the reason why people have celebrated this time for centuries is because… Continue Reading
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A brand-new bike was inducted into the world of gravel riding this day when we were joined by gravel debutant David who was riding a very clean and new Cannondale Top Stone. It didn´t take long for the Love of Mud to draw us onto the wet stuff and we hit what in summer is… Continue Reading
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On this reconnaissance I missed out much of the gravel known to me so that I could check out new sections for Gö Strade Bianche and this meant a few dead ends and U-turns. Although I love the challenge of riding in mud, I don´t love it enough to force me to walk! Gö Strade… Continue Reading
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The plan was to have been to meet Bernd Kaminski in nearby Moringen but German railways once more didn´t play nice and his train was so badly delayed he had to go home. With the sun shining and all set to ride we decided to do a wee bit more reconnaissance for Gö Strade Bianche… Continue Reading
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fahrstil magazine and VeloKlubHaus.com präsentieren: For the Love of Mud Januar 24, 2020, Göttingen. NOTE: The event is now full, thank you for your interest. Deutsch fahrstil magazine and VeloKlubHaus.com präsentieren: For the Love of Mud For the Love of Mud ist ein Film von Benedict Campbell, der die wundervolle Welt des Cyclo-Cross schildert und… Continue Reading
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After a week off the bike because of a cold it was great to be back on the road, well, on and off road. This first ride of December was a reconnaissance for a cunning plan we are hatching and thus there were lots of stops to take pictures and time lost as new roads… Continue Reading
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The public roads and landscape along the Leine Valley near Gö remind me of Picardy and Northern France. Any further resemblance is lost because the villages look different (although familiar) and rather than cobbled (Roubaix) farm roads they are gravel. Also the hills along the Leine Valley are natural whilst in Northern France they can… Continue Reading
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Although no rain has fallen for a few days everything is wet and mist hangs low over city and country (making the denkmal at Friedland very moody looking). This ride began with a 23-kilometre pedal with Gunnar Fehlau taking in tarmac only, although dirty. After Gunnar had to return to work, I continued opting to… Continue Reading
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Almost every area will have something that has been abandoned with some long since forgotten and rubbed away. On this short gravel ride, we passed two lost villages, at Kerstlingeröder Feld and Omborn. The first was badly hit during the Thirty Years War (which devastated the German speaking states) and what was left was then… Continue Reading
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I channelled my inner Annemiek Van Vleuten and Julian Alaphilippe (winners of the 2019 Strade Bianche) on this ride with its mix of gravel, farm, forest and tarmac roads. I decided to hunt (not with a gun and it’s the hunting season here in Germany) for new trails, and this led to me undertaking more… Continue Reading
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I felt inspired after watching ´For the Love of Mud´ by Benedict Campbell with Magdalena Röhrich, Alexander Dittel, Ole Dahms and members of Radsportgemeinschaft Hannover e.V., to venture out on my cyclo cross bike. The day felt cold, was damp and mist hung over the valley, thus ideal for embracing mud. I mixed gravel with… Continue Reading
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We criss-crossed both the railway and the motorway a number of times on this road ride out to Friedland after pushing into a tough wind. There we had a great view of the Friedland Monument atop the hill set against a sulky sky.. The Ride Garmin Connect: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/4257197833 Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/2869046244 Cycle Fahrrad Goettingen home page
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To paraphrase the English comic actor who is probably better known in Germany than his home country my ride today was almost ´same procedure as last time´. (Dinner for One) With the weather being unsettled my ride was a little bit dictated by whether it would rain, and I mean RAIN, rather than just being… Continue Reading
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We chose to make buying cat food a little more fun by including a trip along the Leine Valley to look at Bovenden. When we hit the first section of gravel mist was hanging across the landscape and by the time, we had made our way along more gravel, tarmac and concrete farm roads the… Continue Reading
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An ´Arctic Break Out´ is bringing cold air to Northern and Central Europe, but with the sun shining it didn´t feel so glacial until I was descending, where a strong wind chill did cut into me. I do wonder when the winter really sets in how I will fair. This time I rode the Kopfsteinpflaster… Continue Reading
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Autumn is still conjuring up some warm and sunny weather, so much so that to go fast would get you home quicker or lead you to find greater kilometres. Or you can cruise sociably whilst riding all the hills in the 46 and not drop down, leg stretching indeed, but slower. The Ride Garmin Connect:… Continue Reading
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It occurred to me as I stepped out for a ride and had progressed about 10 kilometres that I was taking this wonderful ability to ride so many cool trails and roads for granted. Before March 2019 when I moved here from London, going for a ride was hard work, not the ride itself but… Continue Reading
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I was still feeling a little battered despite a good night´s sleep from the previous day’s efforts at the Wieter-Plesse-Biking-CTF and I was advised to go for a recovery ride. I took out my Gö White Roads bike which is great for a combination of less gruesome gravel and nicely benign tarmac because I wanted… Continue Reading
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A sedate lunchtime ride we agreed but then Gunnar Fehlau elects to take us up a long single off-road climb (Hautflügler Trail) and then down a 50kph gravel descent. Brilliant! After I said farewell to Gunnar and since the weather was so nice, I went home via the Hainberg Forest where the colours of autumn… Continue Reading
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