The carrying challenge
Let´s not talk about the wonders of the bicycle. How it seems to be the smartest way to get around these days (which of course is true for a minority only), how it can...
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E-bikes better than cars – but they are not bicycles
Bikes are good because they have minimal effect on the environment, they are good because they take up minimal space in a city landscape that gets more dense as urbanization accelerates and they are...
A garage spot just for my Christiania
One often overlooked aspect of owning and using a bike is storage. Or rather bike parking. The issue became very clear to me when I got the three wheeled cargo Christiania bike. It doesn’t´fit...
Of course city biking is hazardous
Within 24 hours two persons were killed in Sweden last week riding their bicycles. Not in a terror attack. Not because of hate. It wasn´t about revenge. Or adultery or any other all too...
Who´s showing the way?
Who are the people guiding us to a more cyclish world? Let´s hear it from you! Name one to x persons (Swedish or non-Swedish – we are one world) that you believe are making...
Wisdom of a nineyearold
We were coming up the last hill going home from our picnic dinner in a field nearby our house. I was beating that big, clunky Christiania up the hill. My nine-year-old daughter fighting her...
Parking my Shimanos
What´s in a bicycle shoe, I ask myself. A foot, you might say. Well, most of the time that wouldn’t hold true. It´s just the shoe. And hundreds or thousands of stories, shaped and...
Silly looks
Yesterday I rode to my city office in my black, padded bike shorts, leg warmers and the merino wool top I almost alway wear when on the bike. Overall it was a nice, comfortable...
My electric heart is slowly growing
Yesterday´s run into town was slightly faster than it usually is. I normally try to go rather slowish in order not to get too sweaty, and also so I can do the routine 3-4...
Come rain come Crud fenders
It is with a heavy heart that I mount my new fenders on the Lapierre Audacio wonderbike. The Crud Roadracer MK2 Fenders might be light, the might be slim. But they are fenders. They...
Good job, Jenny!
I rarely or never comment on news here. That is just not what I like to do at Cycleville BLOG. But when I heard that Jenny Rissveds won the gold medal yesterday I almost...
