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  • Gö Feldweg Omloop 76km – April 17 2022 – ´Road´ Ride

    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

    on April 17, 2022
  • The Gö Feldweg Omloop

    Home – Route 78km – Route 76km – Route 61km – Route 56km – Route 40km – Gallery The Gö Feldweg Omloop is a ‘road’ based bike ride linking together asphalt and Betonweg field roads (Feldweg) with cobbles and gravel, plus cycle paths and public roads into what we hope is a soulful ‘classic’ homage… Continue Reading

    on April 7, 2022
  • Gö Feldweg Omloop 40km – April 6 2022 ´Road´Ride´

    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

    on April 6, 2022
  • Gö Feldeg Omloop 56km – March 24 2022 ´Road´Ride´

    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

    on March 24, 2022
  • Gö Feldweg Omloop 61km – March 12 2022 – ´Road´ Ride

    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

    on March 12, 2022
  • Gö Feldweg Omloop 78km – March 2 2022 – ´Road´ Ride

    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

    on March 2, 2022
  • Waterloo in Gö – January 13 2022 Road/Gravel Ride

    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

    on January 13, 2022
  • Farm Roads in Gö – November 14 2021 ´Road´ Ride

    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

    on November 14, 2021
  • Not Cringy in Gö – November 1 2021 Road Ride

    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

    on November 2, 2021
  • Hohengandern Kolonnenweg – October 14 2021 Gravel/Road Ride

    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

    on October 15, 2021
  • Riding into the 21st Century in Gö – September 26 2021 Gravel/Road Ride

    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

    on September 27, 2021
  • Liebe Kopfsteinpflaster – September 17 2021 Cobbles/Gravel/Asphalt Ride

    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

    on September 17, 2021
  • Welcome to Halle – September 11 2021 Gravel/Road Ride

    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

    on September 13, 2021
  • Strade Bianche de Gutingi / Partypace – August 15 2021 Gravel/Road Ride

    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

    on August 16, 2021
  • Gö Strade Bianche 84km – July 31 2021 Gravel/Road Ride

    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

    on July 31, 2021
  • Börltal in Gö – A Westside Story – July 22 2021 Gravel/Road Ride

    We ventured away from the Dransfeld Ramp (an abandoned railway) and rode into the Börl Valley via the village of Hetjershausen (the village well survives) to the west of Göttingen. In Groß Ellershausen the Lindenhof pub still stands and this was frequented by the first German Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck and poet Heinrich Heine, and… Continue Reading

    on July 22, 2021
  • Window of Opportunity vor Goosegog Kuchen in Gö – July 10 2021 Gravel/Road Ride

    DE Heute regnet es nicht und so haben wir dieses Zeitfenster genutzt, um Goosegog Kuchen zu reiten. 47km – 16 gravel sektors. ENG It has been raining almost every day lately, but there are windows of opportunity when it remains dry and on this day, we took advantage of this to ride to Besenhausen to… Continue Reading

    on July 10, 2021
  • Thinking of Käthe in Gö – July 8 2021 Gravel Ride

    (Lost villages) It´s good to stop and think… I did that, at what has become a regular riding spot for me. In my first week of moving to Germany I sat on a bench at Kesterlingrodefeld and wondered at what I had done. I was now an immigrant. Käthe KollwitzI began this ride at a… Continue Reading

    on July 8, 2021
  • Purple Patch in Gö – July 3 2021 Gravel/Road Ride

    DEDer Waterkoud dem Sonnenschein und die Felder sind voller Bienen, die sich von der lila Phacelia ernähren ENGAfter a week where the Leine Valley felt if it was being suffocated by Waterkoud, a Dutch word for wet hanging cloud, it was therefore a surprise to wake up on Saturday to find a strong sun shining!… Continue Reading

    on July 4, 2021
  • A DDR Bunker in Gö – June 28 2021 Gravel Ride

    The Iron Curtain was a political and physical division created after World War Two splitting Europe into East and West. I rode my gravel bike to visit an abandoned bunker part of what was once the German Internal Border erected to enforce this schism close to the city of Göttingen. Salt the Fields?After the war,… Continue Reading

    on June 28, 2021

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