Hanze 6-9-6 Netherlands (1200 or 2100km)

[Ivo]

Hanze 6-9-6

The Hanseatic League, a union of trading cities, synonymous for trade and adventure, for tradesmen  travelling the known world for all kinds of goods, to transport, to trade. Adventurers. All over Northern Europe you can find the traces of these adventurers. While riding the Hanze 6-9-6 you can follow the footprints of these illustrious Hanseatic adventurers.
A first series of Hanseatic Towns we find in the Ijsselvalley. The town of Deventer is our start town. During the first part of the route we visit a number of Hanseatic towns along the rivers, a.o. Venlo and Cologne. A nice flat route through the valleys of the Maas and Rhine. But it doesn't stay that flat, after Cologne we'll leave the Rhine Valley and cut through via a number of beautiful natural parcs to Braunschweig. Before you start, you'll declare your intent, return after Braunschweig to the flatlands and return to Deventer after 1200km, or continue for a whole lot of extra Hanseatic Towns, and only stop after 2100km. If you choose full value, you'll visit 3 famous Hanseatic towns, Rostock, Lübeck and Hamburg. You'll return to Braunschweig after completing this 900km lap through northern Germany.
After Braunschweig all routes continue via Bremen, Oldenburg, Groningen and Zwolle, an easy route, with hardly a hill worth mentioning.



Disclaimer : The indicated route on the map is the preliminary route, after route checking, some small or maybe even larger changes could be made.

For the ease of the riders, there'll be a staffed control at the crossroads of the 3 routes, in or near Braunschweig. Including sleeping options and a drop bag service. The route from the start to the staffed control will be the same for all the riders. After the staffed control, the 2100km riders will do a loop of 900km, netting an extra 120 hours for these 900km. The return 600k will be mainly flat, straight through the Northern German Lowlands, so upgrading to 2100km is certainly worth considering.
We'll welcome the fans of historic adventures early september, in Deventer!

In the following months, we'll add more details of this event on these pages.
Event website: https://randonneurs.nl/hanze-6-9-6/

Start : Saturday, September 7th 2024 @ 09:00
Location : Deventer

[Deano]

Cor, that's quite tempting, Ivo.

[aidan.f]

Yes I'm up for it..

[L CC]

The 2100 is my target for next year.

Team VC167 ferry?

[felstedrider]

I want to ride.   Just need to work my annual leave out as I'm doing LEJoG as well.

My thoughts are to sail from Harwich Thursday night, gentle ride on Friday with a train alternative.   Aim to finish in 7 days but provide some slippage.   I would either book a boat Sunday night back and see if I can get to my home desk by 9 or just book Monday off instead and catch the boat just after lunch.

[Ivo]

I want to ride.   Just need to work my annual leave out as I'm doing LEJoG as well.

My thoughts are to sail from Harwich Thursday night, gentle ride on Friday with a train alternative.   Aim to finish in 7 days but provide some slippage.   I would either book a boat Sunday night back and see if I can get to my home desk by 9 or just book Monday off instead and catch the boat just after lunch.

Your return time will be highly influenced by the wind conditions in the final days (flat return route). I'd personally suggest to book the monday off to prevent falling asleep on your keyboard

[Zed43]

Work is when/where you recover from your bicycle rides 

Am I mad to even consider the ACME Grand the week after finishing 6-9-6?

[felstedrider]

Am I mad to even consider the ACME Grand the week after finishing 6-9-6?

I'd missed that and it's organised by my own club.   It starts 20k from here but I think it will be a bit beyond me.

The route is pretty benign, though.

[Deano]

The 2100 is my target for next year.

Team VC167 ferry?

Club road trip!

[Frank9755]

This does look tempting, if I can swing it at home.  Maybe the shorter option might work, as I'm organising an event on the 15th.
How does entry work, is it just rock up at the start?  I'm sure it has been asked before and apols if I've missed it, but I couldn't find it anywhere. 

[Zed43]

There will be a registration form on the randonneurs.nl website, and you'll be able to pay with Paypal.

[Ivo]

This does look tempting, if I can swing it at home.  Maybe the shorter option might work, as I'm organising an event on the 15th.
How does entry work, is it just rock up at the start?  I'm sure it has been asked before and apols if I've missed it, but I couldn't find it anywhere.

The entry form will be added at a later stage. We use Mollie for payment, so usual options like creditcard and PayPal will work.

[Frank9755]

Thanks both

[mattc]

Some interesting places, and (hopefully) an easy beginner's 2000k event! ;⁠-⁠)

Goes on my list (currently pencilled in with the French 1200 in July). 

[D.A.L.E.]

Oooooh.

[felstedrider]

Booked my ferries both ways using the Stena New Year discount.   I’m not sailing back until Monday afternoon but I have a target to finish in 7 days to give a relaxing couple of days return ride.  I have a bit of work to do fitness wise.

[quixoticgeek]

Can you clarify average speeds. Will this be as per typical Dutch approach of not worrying about intermediate controls times as long as you get to the finish in time ? Or at the very least, will the timing assume the same average speed throughout, or will it be like PBP which gives you 40 hours for the first 600, 50 hours for the next 600, then extrapolating out, 120 for the last 900...

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[Lightning Phil]

The 2100km version would allow a min overall of 10km / hour aka 240km a day under  LRM rules. Depends what the organisers have opted for.

[slugbait]

Will this be as per typical Dutch approach of not worrying about intermediate controls times as long as you get to the finish in time ?

I'm pretty sure that this will be the typical relaxed approach, but if you're doing the 2100km version and you're riding on the limit then I wouldn't count on being able to access your drop bag on the way back to Deventer.

[iddu]

From updated page...

• Maximum number participants: 100
• Pre-registration starts 1st of February for members of Randonneurs NL Pre-registration others starts 5th of February 2024; participants 100 and max 100 waiting list

[slugbait]

To put those numbers in perspective: PBP 2023 had 51 members of Randonneurs Netherlands at start (and a total of 84 Dutch participants). The numbers for any other event will be a lot lower.

[felstedrider]

Hope so.   I've already booked the time off and the ferries.

[Ivo]

The full text of the update:

Status Update January 2024

The track is under construction. Various adjustments due to information from the field must be processed. When there is a concept route that will be used for the route-check, we will publish it as a map with elevation profile on the website, as is done with all Randonneurs NL brevets.

We are negotiating with a beautiful location just west of Braunschweig as a support location.

Some key figures
Maximum number participants: 100
Pré-registration starts 1st of February for members of Randonneurs NL
Pré-registration others starts 5th of February 2024
participants 100 and max 100 waiting list
Final registration from 1st of May 2024
Tracker during the event
Drop Bag service Deventer – Support location - Deventer
Included: Meal at the start – Meal at the support location
Special Hanze 6-9-6 cycling shirt included

[Ivo]

Will this be as per typical Dutch approach of not worrying about intermediate controls times as long as you get to the finish in time ?

I'm pretty sure that this will be the typical relaxed approach, but if you're doing the 2100km version and you're riding on the limit then I wouldn't count on being able to access your drop bag on the way back to Deventer.

We're still negotiating with the location but as they go now, there'll still be a considerable level of service for the riders riding passing the intermediate control on the way back from the 2100.

[aidan.f]

Ivo, what please is the registration process ? Do we just send an email or will a form appear on the website?