GöWeißeStraßen RideIt had been raining for a few days and more was forecast, I elected to ride to satisfy my inner Roubaix or Strada Bianche (GöWeißeStraßen). It didn’t happen – no rain and I might have preferred that to the strong wind that developed as I rode. I did get into the Roubaix/Strada Bianche zone… Continue Reading
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To say I had cabin fever would be to overstate it, rather after a few days of heavy rain having pinned me to home I knew I needed to pedal. I can accept a good drenching if I am out, but I do not venture forth into it at the start of a ride. Today… Continue Reading
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There was racing at the Goettingen velodrome this day and I took the opportunity to test out my Autumn/Winter new build and check out some winter routes on my ride to the action. My new build is a bike I intend to use to ride close to home following category* one and two ‘Gö Strada… Continue Reading
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Making a quick visit to see us was my old friend Neil Simpson from London who was in Germany to commissaire two UCI mountain bikes events. We took the opportunity to undertake three gravel rides. Brings Speed – September 17 2019 Gravel/road ride On this lunchtime ride we were joined by Neil Simpson an old… Continue Reading
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With a bike you can turn the simple act of buying cat food into something more. We rode to the ‘mean side of town’ this being Grone, not really, but it is seen as rough by some although I don’t see it. It is the industrial side (nearby is the railway station) and It was… Continue Reading
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We rode mostly on the road linked together with gravel sections to the southern geodetic meridian stone placed on top of a hill by Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1819 at Friedland. The gravel climb up along an old pilgrim’s route was leg breaking (20% in places) and we felt quite dizzy by the time we… Continue Reading
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Having been busy at Eurobike and riding 100’s of kilometres (in the dark) Gunnar Fehlau has been AWOL from our lunchtime rides, thus we have not ridden together for a little while. Today our lunch time ride was interrupted by a puncture for Gunnar and after that we sort of freestyled taking fresh trails which… Continue Reading
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Rain was falling and I set off regardless. I wore my ‘Love of Mud’ cap in homage to what I expected to be a dirty ride. It wasn’t the rain abated; I took off my rain jacket and I found most trails were already drying. This ride was the ‘Low’ section from my ‘High and… Continue Reading
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We took a steady road spin out to the Hanstein Castle this day and we rode out of Goettingen along the A38 cycle path (the place to catch so many local riders) past Friedland, across the old East German border and then onto rolling country roads to Rimbach. The cobbled climb up to the castle… Continue Reading
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To paraphrase the great Jens Voight and I use almost his complete words and sentiment in an imaginary conversation I had after my September 1 gravel ride. “SHUT UP BODY, it isn’t on Strava”. “But I ache” and “we hit the dirt” says my body. “But it isn’t on Strava” repeats my mixed up head.… Continue Reading
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Two 430 metre hills dominate the approach to Goettingen from the south east and upon each a castle was built. We spun out along a mix of gravel, cycle paths and road, which included my favourite the Kopfsteinpflaster Carrousel to seek out the Burg Alte Gleichen (castle). Just after the carousel we approached the Alte… Continue Reading
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The day after I had proclaimed on Miriam Schattner‘s (a Hamburg crosser and gravelist) FB timeline that “I am addicted to gravel”, I went for a road ride instead. In mitigation I would say that I want to build up some endurance and I thought a road ride would do the job especially as it’s… Continue Reading
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The first house in Kirchgandern out from Goettingen and once situated in the DDR has this great garden gate and a wonderful sculpture denoting the distance to Hanoi and Moscow to name two places. We wondered if the occupant had ridden to them? Just before Kirchgandern and the old DDR border is a sort of… Continue Reading
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Training camp? I think not – a day for a cool gravel ride with Gunnar Fehlau and we almost reprised the route we rode for the first time with him in March. I can’t quite believe that I have been here five months! This time and although we followed similar sections we pedalled over a… Continue Reading
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RideWe asked Tom our visitor from the Netherlands where he wanted to ride this day and he opted for a mixed surface spin out to Duderstadt and then the old East German Border (60km round trip). I meanwhile began to wonder if I am on some sort of never ending training camp simply because I… Continue Reading
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I note that it has been raining a lot and it is pretty cold in Britain. Tales of punctures and soakings are plentiful on my social media timeline. Meanwhile here we welcome rain as everything is dry and somewhat wonderfully when it does rain and although it can be really, really hard stair-rod style, it… Continue Reading
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It was intended to be a rest day at the training camp, but the sun was shining, the birds were tweeting and we wanted to wear our best white road shoes. So we did and I enjoyed a 62kmh plus descent although otherwise it was more about enjoying being alive and enjoying the views, plus… Continue Reading
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Having ridden for three days straight from the Netherlands to us in Germany we of course took Tom out on a bike ride next day. We joined Gunnar Fehlau for our regular lunchtime spin taking in a mixed surface route with a twist – we got a puncture! All fixed with the quick hands of Gunnar… Continue Reading
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Determined to chill out this ride and not push on we stopped (on a long climb) to look at something we had spotted during the spring from the road when the lack of foliage had revealed a stone urn at the village of Appenrode. It looked like the type of stone urn that you often… Continue Reading
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We followed the line-of-march of the US First Army through Göttingen and we rode adjacent to the Leine River to Bovenden where the 3rd Armour fought off a Nazi Panzer counter-attack in 1945. Just a few kilometres from Bovenden is Lenglern, this is a rather generic German village where old farm houses and a sombre… Continue Reading
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