Projekt Karl – A Social Gravel Ride

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  • Project Karl 2026#1 – are you in?

    Project Karl 2026#1 – are you in?

    It all kicks off on Saturday 30 May 2026: Project Karl officially launches for the 2026 season. Will you be there? The weather certainly won’t be an excuse 🙂 The event starts at 9:00 am in Trier-Biewer at the Mäusheckerhalle. You can find the track here: https://www.komoot.com/de-de/tour/2915039399. You can find all the details here: https://projekt-karl.de/en/2026/04/22/projekt-karl-20261-2/

  • Voting the date of Projekt Karl 2026#1

    Voting the date of Projekt Karl 2026#1

    Voting is now open – you can help decide when this year’s first Projekt Karl Social Gravel Ride will take place.You can find the poll here: https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/DIqwpJaO66i6FRIDNuudel works without registration or tracking.By the way, the route scouting is all done 🙂

  • Projekt Karl 2026#1

    Dear Gravel Community, It’s been over six months since our last Social Ride. But now the Karl Project is back for 2026 and will be introducing a few new features. For organisational reasons, only one route will be offered per event – namely the long route. There will also be a change to the dates:…

  • Impressions of Projekt Karl 2025#4

    Impressions of Projekt Karl 2025#4

    Only 3 degrees and fog in the morning did not deter 8 riders from participating in the fourth edition of our Social Gravel Ride for 2025. And we were rewarded not long after the start: while Kanzem was still hidden in the fog, the fog cleared from Krohkreuz onwards and the sun came out. From…

  • Projekt Karl 2025#4

    Projekt Karl 2025#4

    Golden October is sadly over, but November seems to be giving us one more beautiful weekend.That’s why we’ve decided at short notice to hold our fourth Social Gravel Ride on November 8, 2025. The route has been scouted to ensure that we have plenty of gravel and forest soil under our tires. We won’t say…

  • Impressions of Projekt Karl 2025#3

    All participants opted for the long distance in the third edition of our Social Gravel Ride for 2025. So the weather forecast didn’t deter anyone 🙂However, it wasn’t as rainy as predicted. We had two small showers, but we were able to take shelter and continue after a few minutes.The route took us through the…

  • Projekt Karl on Youtube

    You can now also find us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ProjektKarl Check out our Worms-based gravel friend Andor on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@andor.biking) to get an impression of our social gravel rides: Projekt Karl 2024#2: Projekt Karl 2025#2:

  • Projekt Karl 2025#3

    Our third Social Gravel Ride of the year will take place on 13 September 2025. Thorsten has scouted a beautiful route from Trier to Losheim.We will ride through the Mattheiser Forest to the ‘Tälchen’ valley, then on to Losheim and back via the Hochwald forest. We won’t need our swimming trunks, but we’ll definitely have…

  • Impressions of Projekt Karl 2025#2

    Impressions of Projekt Karl 2025#2

    At the second edition of our Social Gravel Rides for 2025, all participants went on the long-distance route. This took us to the Hochwald forest, through the romantic valley of the Kleine Drohn, via Thalfang and then back again.The weather was perfect again and after a great tour, the day ended in style at Bella…