Swedish company unveils airbag cycle helmet (+ video)
A Swedish company has developed an airbag bicycle helmet designed to deploy quickly to protect a bike rider’s head in the case of an accident, while seeking to overcome resistance to helmet use by...
View ArticleSwedish cyclist 'butted off' her bike by a passing rear end
Even in Scandinavia, the cyclists' Utopia, two-wheeled types have to deal with driver aggression. In Sweden, a woman heading home from a night out with friends was knocked off her bike by a backside...
View ArticleTyre-slashing man caught on camera having sex with bicycle
Annoyed at someone interfering with his bike, a Swedish man has caught a bizarre bike fetishist red-handed.Per Edstrom got fed up that someone kept puncturing his tyres and set up a CCTV camera to try...
View ArticleVolvo to trial driverless cars on open roads within three years
Volvo is to begin a large scale trial of driverless cars on public roads within three years.The project, Drive Me, has the ambition of eliminating deadly car crashes in Sweden, according to Erik...
View ArticleSwedish 'test cyclists' get free bikes in return for driving less
Why don’t people cycle for basic local trips? Conventional wisdom is that people are deterred by the idea of sharing the road with fast motor traffic. But in Sweden they’re testing a different theory,...
View ArticleVideo: Swedish cyclist in 10 minute right of way stand-off with truck
Many road users seem to believe that the larger vehicle always has priority. One Swedish cyclist spent 10 minutes making the point that this was not the case by standing in the road in front of a...
View ArticleA wooden cycling helmet? New material said to offer similar properties to...
From the land that brought us the airbag helmet comes another which makes use of a new shock-absorbing material made of renewable and biodegradable wood-based material. The helmet was designed by...
View ArticleBridge linking Denmark and Sweden closed as cyclists spotted on it
A bridge linking Denmark and Sweden was closed yesterday morning after four people were spotted cycling on it.Bicycles and pedestrians are banned from the 8-kilometre long Oresund Bridge which features...
View ArticleNew apartment complex ditches car parks for bike-friendly design + video
Scandavians have once again been caught red-handed pushing the parapet for sustainable transport and sustainable living forward; this time it's Sweden and a cycle-friendly car park-less apartment...
View ArticleSwedish woman spends Christmas and Boxing Days riding 400 miles for charity
A woman in Sweden spent Christmas Day and Boxing Day riding her bike to raise money for Unicef – racking up just shy of 400 miles in the process. It doesn’t appear that Tufvesson was riding as part of...
View ArticleVideo: Footage of bizarre velodrome crash goes viral
Footage of a bizarre crash in a velodrome in Sweden has gone viral on Twitter with nearly 700 retweets and almost 1.000 likes on the social network.It was shot at the velodrome in Falun, with a rider...
View ArticlePolice in Sweden stop e-bike rider - after clocking him at 98 kilometres an hour
Police in Sweden have stopped a man after clocking him riding an electric bicycle at a speed of just under 100 kilometres an hour (62mph).Thelocal.se reports that officers hit a speed of 98 kilometres...
View ArticleTyre-slashing man caught on camera having sex with bicycle
Annoyed at someone interfering with his bike, a Swedish man has caught a bizarre bike fetishist red-handed.Per Edstrom got fed up that someone kept puncturing his tyres and set up a CCTV camera to try...
View ArticleVolvo to trial driverless cars on open roads within three years
Volvo is to begin a large scale trial of driverless cars on public roads within three years.The project, Drive Me, has the ambition of eliminating deadly car crashes in Sweden, according to Erik...
View ArticleSwedish 'test cyclists' get free bikes in return for driving less
Why don’t people cycle for basic local trips? Conventional wisdom is that people are deterred by the idea of sharing the road with fast motor traffic. But in Sweden they’re testing a different theory,...
View ArticleVideo: Swedish cyclist in 10 minute right of way stand-off with truck
Many road users seem to believe that the larger vehicle always has priority. One Swedish cyclist spent 10 minutes making the point that this was not the case by standing in the road in front of a...
View ArticleA wooden cycling helmet? New material said to offer similar properties to...
From the land that brought us the airbag helmet comes another which makes use of a new shock-absorbing material made of renewable and biodegradable wood-based material. The helmet was designed by...
View ArticleBridge linking Denmark and Sweden closed as cyclists spotted on it
A bridge linking Denmark and Sweden was closed yesterday morning after four people were spotted cycling on it.Bicycles and pedestrians are banned from the 8-kilometre long Oresund Bridge which features...
View ArticleNew apartment complex ditches car parks for bike-friendly design + video
Scandavians have once again been caught red-handed pushing the parapet for sustainable transport and sustainable living forward; this time it's Sweden and a cycle-friendly car park-less apartment...
View ArticleSwedish woman spends Christmas and Boxing Days riding 400 miles for charity
A woman in Sweden spent Christmas Day and Boxing Day riding her bike to raise money for Unicef – racking up just shy of 400 miles in the process. It doesn’t appear that Tufvesson was riding as part of...
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