I ventured out to ride a ´road´ based bike tour that links together asphalt and Betonweg field roads with cobbles and gravel, plus cycle paths and public roads. Feldweg Home The long Göttingen Feldweg Omloop without the gnarly gravel sections above Volkerode. Living the dream – Flanders and Paris Roubaix. Bravo! – Tanja Erath for… Continue Reading
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The small Gö Feldweg Omloop ridden on a majority of Betonweg, or mixed surface farm/forest roads and cycle paths closed to general motor traffic. A homage to the Spring road race classics. It felt like riding in the Low Countries – I was head banging a wall of wind. Thankfully no rain! It was great… Continue Reading
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The majority of the ride was on Betonweg or mixed surface farm/forest roads and cycle paths closed to general motor traffic. On this ride in my head, I was riding the Gent Wevelgem cycle race, but not at their pace! This version of the Feldweg Omloop misses out the southern stages to Bisenhausen. Feldweg Home… Continue Reading
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Hallo to Jan, Margorette und friends. ENG The tour included asphalt and Betonweg field roads with cobbles and gravel, plus cycle paths and public roads. A shorter sister tour of the 78km. DE Die Tour beinhaltete Asphalt- und Betonweg-Feldwege mit Kopfsteinpflaster und Schotter, dazu Radwege und öffentliche Straßen. Die zweite kürzere Tour. Feldweg Home Tour… Continue Reading
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I ventured out to ride a ´road´ based bike tour that links together asphalt and Betonweg field roads with cobbles and gravel, plus cycle paths and public roads. Feldweg Home To my mind an inanimate bike can be given life by being ridden and the roads you may choose to follow can also imbue your… Continue Reading
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When we went into Covid lockdown in 2019 I began writing letters from my new home in Germany and it’s been a while since I wrote my last one. By writing these letters I hoped to understand Germany better and my home country the United Kingdom. Covid/Letters Home This letter was spurred by a plaque… Continue Reading
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We rode out from Göttingen onto the defunct Gartelbahn to Waterloo, and no, we did not pedal as far as Belgium or London. I had for many years lived in London close to Waterloo and the Station, and now by some odd quirk of fate I find myself living a short bike ride from another… Continue Reading
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March 2019 saw me in my new home city in Central Germany and two years on I am living in a time of a pandemic. I began writing these letters at the start of the pandemic in an attempt to understand Germany better and to get to grips with my relationship with the United Kingdom.… Continue Reading
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The average life expectancy of a washing machine is ten years and if excessively clunking noisily or if your machine gives off a fugue then it’s probably telling you the end is nigh. Washing Machine BluesIf you live a clean life, you may push a machine beyond the average, but for a cyclist especially when… Continue Reading
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I had no reason to cringe (or cringy) on my ride this day, nor did I have cause to be Sus (suspect). In addition, I did not feel lost, the latter in the context of feeling discombobulated, also, I had no reason to express Sheesh (disbelief). Having grown up in England all these words are… Continue Reading
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Josh Schenk and I ventured into the evening rain to visit the now defunct internal border which until 1989 separated Germany. The border ran for 1,381 kilometres from the Baltic Sea to what was then Czechoslovakia, the East German Government called it their anti-fascist barrier but in reality, it reflected the economic and political challenge… Continue Reading
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My new bike is a ride into the 21st century and I met with Josh Schenk and Gunnar Fehlau at the Göttingen Velodrome for a party pace spin. Although I am now signed up for this century, and after much barracking I might add, Gunnar contrarily abandoned the new order and rode a fixed single… Continue Reading
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It has crossed my mind several times to conduct guerrilla gardening and line the white gravel roads of Göttingen with Tuscan tree seeds. I believe it would make the area just a bit cooler! Now, a second thought has hit me, what about guerrilla cobble stone laying? There are cobbles in Göttingen but nothing of… Continue Reading
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The first turn of the train wheels broke the stiction holding me to my home because in the past two years plus I have not ventured away. Although I have explored my new home in Göttingen with enthusiasm my last big journey was when I moved from London. The Covid pandemic being a strong reason… Continue Reading
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I am beginning to feel human again after suffering a bug and although Craig my ride companion had to wait for me on the hills (danke) I didn´t grovel as I might have feared. I am still scouting a long version of an ´All Along the Watchtower´ gravel ride (and a road version) featuring the… Continue Reading
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DE – Gö Strade Bianche (66km tour), mit Gö Grupetto Partypace Schließ´ die Augen und stell Dir vor, Du seist in der Toskana, und mach´ sie erst am Ende der Radtour wieder auf. Im Staub zu reiten war poetisch. Danke an alle, die auf mich gewartet haben! ENG – Gö Strade Bianche (66km route), with Gö… Continue Reading
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The idea was to ride just under 30km at a gentle pace as it was, we did a wee bit more at 45 kilometres because the sun was shining, we had our summer shoes and our wheels were rotating nicely and that´s how it goes sometimes. We picnicked at Ludolfhausen church (1562) a type of… Continue Reading
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The area where I live in Central Europe is not mountainous, but it is hilly, to go beyond this I would need to visit the Harz where the Brocken stands at 1,141 metres or the Wurmberg at 971 (the latter an offroad cycling mecca). Göttingen sits in the Leine Valley and is flanked to the west… Continue Reading
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After a hard ride of 84kms on gravel the previous weekend I wanted a simple relaxed road tour. The sky above me was rumbling with thunder and rain clouds hung overhead, but with no fixed route in my mind I was able to avoid the worst of the rain. When it encroached toward me, I… Continue Reading
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A ride in celebration of the Strade Bianche race held in Tuscany, Italy. This tour featured the ´Weißen Straßen´ of Göttingen plus concrete, dirt, asphalt cycle paths and public roads. I began the Strade Bianche de Gutingi at the Gö velodrome and 51 gravel sectors followed. The route took me along the Leine Valley north… Continue Reading
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