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. We also go down the asphalt descent of the Hoher Hagen which is a major test on the annual Tour d´Energy because that… 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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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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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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A Gö Gravel suggested route featuring massive modern structures in the area around Göttingen. In the early 1980’s the BBC television in Britain broadcast a major series about the ‘new’, it was called the ‘ Shock of the New’ . Prior to this art critic Ian Dunlop had written a book with the same title… 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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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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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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On this celebration of Autumn the Gö Gravel informal social tour travels to the East of Göttingen. Autumn is a glorious time when the trees shed their rusty leaves creating a colorful carpet, often hiding ruts, potholes, and roots. A big change of plan after the previous scouting ride for the Gö Gravel informal ride… 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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The Gö Gravel weekend informal social ride excellently designed by Chris took us to the middle of Germany. Close to Göttingen is where three German states meet – Lower Saxony, Thuringia, and Hesse, and here there are a cluster of places which lay claim to being the centre of the country. Backed by a substantial… 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
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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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Presenting no obstacle to our free movement this Gö Gravel cycle tour saw us cross several active and defunct borders. The ride compliments the All Along the Watchtower both being linked to the control of the land. Once how far you travelled from home was dictated by the distance you could walk in a day,… Continue Reading
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Presenting no obstacle to our free movement this future GÖ Gravel cycle tour crossed several active and defunct borders. In the past you would have required the correct paperwork to cross the humblest frontier. We had our Gö Gravel Visa´s and no one dared to hinder Craig and I on our way. We rode as… 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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