The “Ruta Vía de la Plata”, also known as the Silver Route, is an old trade route of almost 1,000 kilometers from the time of the Romans. The route follows the old military roads of the Romans from Seville in Andalusia to Gijon on the Atlantic coast in Asturias. The track can also be ridden […]
It’s almost the end of the season, but there’s always time for Timo Rokitta to squeeze in one last gravel event in 2021. At the end of a year when only a few gravel events took place, the organisers of the Nibelungen gravel ride invited gravellistas to their traditional “last season ride”. One week after […]
Part Two: Orbits Five to Eight Greetings! I am riding my fifth Orbit in the mountains of the Rhön. The Orbit is called BIG BANG and is 160 kilometers with a total ascent of 3,350 meters / 10,990 feet. This event happens close to an area on the former GDR border, somewhere I am familiar […]
The organizers of the legendary Nibelungen gravel ride organized a very special Gravel event on July 31, 2021 – the Siegfried Gravel or SiegfriedGRVL. Why SiegfriedGRVL? “Siegfried was the best and toughest fighter in the realm of the old Nibelungs story. He even killed a dragon and could only be defeated by a trick.” 34 […]
Just in time for the beginning of July 2021, the corona restrictions in the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate were further relaxed. Thus, the Nibelungen gravel ride could take place for the fourth time! This meant every gravel cyclist attending got their money’s worth, and for 2021 there were three different routes to choose from. Near […]
Due to the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic in Germany, many bike events had been canceled. But, this didn’t mean the end of cycling. The organiser of Orbit360, Raphael Albrecht, and his team saw it as a new beginning: They wanted to share the best routes in Germany with the cycling community. From that moment on, Orbit360 […]
In 2019 we had to end our gravel tour in the footsteps of “El Cid” because of the terrible storm in Valencia. In 2020 we could not travel to Spain because of the Coronavirus pandemic. But in spring 2021 the time had come – traveling on the Iberian Peninsula was possible again and so we […]
Germany in Spring 2021: During the lockdown which has been in place for months, all cycling events have been canceled. But the guys from the Mainz cycling club have improvised to ride their CTF individually. The German so-called CTF (cross country rides) are perfect for gravel bikes. In recent years, the CTF Mainz has always […]
