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 I scouted the Easter Monday Gö Gravel ride starting and finishing at the Allez Club House, Göttingen. The route is based on the Het Volk version of the Omloop series. I rode my Omloop bike with skinny road slick tyres with… Continue Reading
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Omloop Home Inspired by stage nine of the 2024 Tour De France (men) I have been riding a series of rides that feature mostly asphalt roads interspersed with gravel, Feldweg and Betonweg. In October the ASO who organise the TdF also host Paris Tours a classic race on the men´s road race calendar and it… Continue Reading
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Bon Courage is an antidote for fear, it allows me to take a step towards rather than retreat from people or activities even if at times it feels like I put one foot forward and three back. Much of this is related to my recent heart attack and having had my world turned upside down. Pharma… Continue Reading
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I will remember this as one of my most favourite rides when Andrea, Julia and I celebrated the gravel stage of the 2024 Tour de France by mixing asphalt with Gö’s own Chemin Blanc. It might be the first time that I felt my mojo is on the up as I defuse the ticking bomb… Continue Reading
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My cardiac doctor at rehab during a consultation listed to me all the things I could do now after my heart attack… most were normal almost humdrum but when she said I could fly, I quickly interjected and said that´s amazing because I couldn´t do that before. It took a few moments for the joke… 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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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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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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Feldweg Home I have always loved cycle road races such as Paris Roubaix, Tro bro Leon and more recently the Strade Bianche, all of which leave the public roads for something a little different. The Gö Feldweg Omloop collection of rides offer a mix of asphalt and gravel feldweg plus Betonweg with as little public… Continue Reading
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It was on my Specialized Crux cyclo-cross that I almost fell into the arms of Hades the Greek god of the Under World. Fall to Earth I haven´t ridden the Crux since May 2022 when I clipped a rut hidden in long grass on a stretch of gravel, my 28mm road tyres fitted at the… Continue Reading
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Winter wetter (and cake) is an existential matter for any cyclist. What is the meaning of it all? I was not to be a hostage to my angst and motivated by the company of Sandra and Andrea we rode a variation of the Gö Feldweg Omloop 40km. Angst The weather is a major matter for… Continue Reading
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Feldweg Home My longest ride since my fall in May! Herbst is firmly with us in Lower Saxony despite some record-breaking high temperatures in October. Autumn (or Fall) means that sections of this tour featured a carpet of fallen leaves which crackle under wheel in the dry or rustle when on foot and are slippery… Continue Reading
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Feldweg Home Not drinking it but thinking about wine on this ride. The Feldweg Omloop is a homage to road race classics which are not confined to asphalt. Paris Tours (Oct 9) features 9 gravel sectors through the vineyards of France. This is the short Gö Feldweg Omloop. The previous route featured a section of… Continue Reading
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Feldweg Home Feedback is great and thanks to Sandra M for hers. Thus, we have revised once more the 54km Gö Feldweg Omloop (soon the 41 will follow) by taking out the cobbles adjacent to the railway at Obernjesa. Although the cobbles at the Obernjesa railway are fun especially where the rusting rails remain from… Continue Reading
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