2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

[JGcycle]

Korboloza Pilavoza
A gravel group ride in Mazovian Landscape Park (MPK)
Sunday, the 2nd of November 2025

This time, my advertising turned out to be effective! People in a cycling group on Strava fell in love with my pictures from Korboloza MPK and wanted to experience the same. We were blessed with warm, dry and sunny windless weather, too!

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Even if the picture shows only 19, I gathered at least 23 people for the ride!

Cycling groups

• "Horses go forward!" or hardcore gravel cyclists who even would not stop for a lunch!
• The fast group or performing cyclists who would never refuse having a good lunch (such as my brother Jacek)
• The main group or fast riders who fully enjoy the life. That group was lead by my friend and co-organiser Marek
• The rear guard (it was my role to secure the rear of the ride).

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The last time all the groups met was the Pen For Wild Animals at the 20th kilometre. The pen is to protect young deer, roe deer or fallow deer that are unable to live in the wild yet.

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Wymięklizna, or The Place Where You Bonk/Hit The Wall We made several funny pictures there (I am to receive them yet).

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Part of the Main Group at the Hotel Under Pine Trees in Osieck.


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The man riding a Specialized Vado SL, Wojtek, is a good friend of mine, the male winner of 2024 Great Lakes Gravel eSprint. It was a big pleasure for me to meet him on the ride I organised!

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I'm giving "Under Pines" five stars on Google Maps!

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On a Strada Bianca near Otwock. It is when you went full TURBO to be able to take pics or your friends riding but they misunderstood your intentions and went their own "SPRINT mode" to catch up with you!

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Paweł suggested we skipped two extra loops of the ride and returned to our homes "on the wheels". We liked his idea! Here, a bridge across River Świder.

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I had to replace the Vado 6.0 battery past the Southern Bridge of Warsaw. Meaning, I could have completed the unabridged Pilavoza on a single battery!

As we reached Tommy's home, I "degarminized" him but "wahooized" him instead Then I rode the long way home...

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Fog and total darkness on an otherwise picturesque bike path along fishing ponds and meadows in my neighbourhood. I didn't hesitate to go the full 1600 lumens with my Supernova headlight there!


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My total ride. It was 114 km (over 70 mi) for the day.

Approximately .7 Rab--very impressive.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Korboloza Pilavoza
A gravel group ride in Mazovian Landscape Park (MPK)
Sunday, the 2nd of November 2025

This time, my advertising turned out to be effective! People in a cycling group on Strava fell in love with my pictures from Korboloza MPK and wanted to experience the same. We were blessed with warm, dry and sunny windless weather, too!

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Even if the picture shows only 19, I gathered at least 23 people for the ride!

Cycling groups

• "Horses go forward!" or hardcore gravel cyclists who even would not stop for a lunch!
• The fast group or performing cyclists who would never refuse having a good lunch (such as my brother Jacek)
• The main group or fast riders who fully enjoy the life. That group was lead by my friend and co-organiser Marek
• The rear guard (it was my role to secure the rear of the ride).

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The last time all the groups met was the Pen For Wild Animals at the 20th kilometre. The pen is to protect young deer, roe deer or fallow deer that are unable to live in the wild yet.

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Wymięklizna, or The Place Where You Bonk/Hit The Wall We made several funny pictures there (I am to receive them yet).

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Part of the Main Group at the Hotel Under Pine Trees in Osieck.


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The man riding a Specialized Vado SL, Wojtek, is a good friend of mine, the male winner of 2024 Great Lakes Gravel eSprint. It was a big pleasure for me to meet him on the ride I organised!

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I'm giving "Under Pines" five stars on Google Maps!

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On a Strada Bianca near Otwock. It is when you went full TURBO to be able to take pics or your friends riding but they misunderstood your intentions and went their own "SPRINT mode" to catch up with you!

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Paweł suggested we skipped two extra loops of the ride and returned to our homes "on the wheels". We liked his idea! Here, a bridge across River Świder.

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I had to replace the Vado 6.0 battery past the Southern Bridge of Warsaw. Meaning, I could have completed the unabridged Pilavoza on a single battery!

As we reached Tommy's home, I "degarminized" him but "wahooized" him instead Then I rode the long way home...

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Fog and total darkness on an otherwise picturesque bike path along fishing ponds and meadows in my neighbourhood. I didn't hesitate to go the full 1600 lumens with my Supernova headlight there!


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My total ride. It was 114 km (over 70 mi) for the day.

You're on your way to becoming the impresario of Mazovian gravel! Looks like a good time was had by all. Love that first group photo. Well done, my friend!

 

[dodgeman]

I rode 17 miles this morning, into town to look at a construction project. It’s apparently going to be a storage/staging area for our nearby electric company. They are building some new power lines in the area. Big tracked Case tractors pulling scrapper pans. I assume they are building a storm water detention area, I’m not sure why else they’d be digging a hole like that.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

The Fast & Furious Group They averaged at some 25 km/h. (These are not Horses, the latter zoom the terrain at some 30 km/h average). My brother is second from the right.

Part of Main Group. The man third from the left is Marek, the co-organiser and the group leader.

You're on your way to becoming the impresario of Mazovian gravel! Looks like a good time was had by all. Love that first group photo. Well done, my friend!

Thank you for your kind words, Jeremy! Mazovian Gravel is a trademark, and I have fallen out with them (they do hate e-bikes!) I do my best to revive the tradition of the former cycling club by name of Graveloza, that's why I add "-oza" to the event names, and my own enterprise is called Korboloza (Korba means a "crankset" in Polish. Also, a person deeply involved in doing something has "a crankset about sth")

Also, I could read several "thank you Stefan" but no word of critics, which is extremely rare among the Poles... The weather played its role: were it the weather as it is today, no "lame dog" would appear on the group ride! I am so grateful to Marek S who had centralised the ride, and was respected for his gravitas and good manners!

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Paweł Jońca's 8-minute video: Korboloza Pilavoza

A good news for you: Please go to Settings on YouTube. Select Subtitles and choose Subtitles Polish (auto-generated) >> English! The AI translates it darn well! Only the name of Krzysiek's reinforced folder bike is Jubilat (Jubilee) not the Birthday Boy

Highlights:

• By gravel bike to the train station in Warsaw and a travel on the R7
• My announcement at the Pilawa station
• "Live cobblestone" in the Mazovian Landscape Park (see me happily riding it!)
• The Pen For Wild Animals
• Interview with Krzysiek on the vintage folder bike at the Bonk (The actual question to Tommy was "Have you gone soft?")
• Strada Bianca
• An express e-bike battery swap on my Vado (notice the "ole goode slap")
  • How much more range would you have now?
    -- Dick! A way longer!
    -- You mean, big

You have never seen me so much riding, and especially, talking

 

[Chargeride]

Love it, youtube is radically changing and they are pushing for global content.
They want to move on to be the mainstream quality global player.

Just look at that we can see Stefan and his friends in a different light.
Its a bit AI at the moment, but obviously will improve

I'll leave you to your own interpretation

Does listening to the English dub in anyway represent ther personality Stefan?

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Does listening to the English dub in anyway represent ther personality Stefan?

I can say the AI translated my welcome address almost perfectly!
Some glitches but the translation how the battery swap increased the range is the most funny!

 

[Chargeride]

Im sure I heard a reply of yours as a girls voice.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Im sure I heard a reply of yours as a girls voice.

That's what she said

 

[dodgeman]

Nice video!

 

[Stefan Mikes]

When we both "bonked/hit the wall" with Tommy in Bonk