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09/06/2026

Invitation til sommercykeltur i Sydsverige:

Åk på cykelsemester i södra Sverige i sommar! En händelserik vecka anordnas av Cykelfrämjandet den 9-15 augusti i Höör. På cykel ger vi oss ut för att upptäcka mellersta Skånes vackra landskap, där böljande åkrar, lövskog och slingrande vägar möter charmiga bymiljöer och mysiga fikaställen. Denna vecka är för dig som vill cykla och dela gemensamma måltider med andra seniorer. Färdiga cykelturer, möjlighet att cykla med andra och halvpension på boendet gör veckan till ett avslappnat äventyr. Läs mer och anmäl dig här! Som medlem hos [oss] kan du anmäla dig till medlemspris!

Hör gärna av dig om du har någon fundering 😀

Med vänlig hälsning,
Projektgruppen för Cykelturveckan 2026

Bästa hälsningar,
Klara Östberg
Projektmedarbetare
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070-8538949
[email protected]

09/06/2026

Der er mange grunde til at cykle:

Just 30 minutes a day of active mobility is linked to:
✅ Lower risk of heart disease & stroke
✅ Better mental health & reduced stress
✅ Improved fitness & healthy weight
✅ Lower risk of type 2 diabetes
✅ Better sleep & energy levels
✅ Reduced air pollution & CO₂ emissions
✅ Less traffic congestion
✅ Stronger, more livable communities

Good for you. Good for cities. Good for the planet.
🚶‍♀️🚴‍♂️🌍

(via Simon Kuestenmacher)

04/06/2026

Selv i bilernes land begynder man at arbejde for mere cykling:

📢 Good news out of Washington for anyone who rides.

Last week, Reps. Mike Thompson (D-CA) and Vern Buchanan (R-FL), co-chairs of the Congressional Bike Caucus, introduced the bipartisan America Bikes Act. The bill, H.R. 9041, bundles a range of cycling proposals into one federal package built around three goals: keeping riders safe, expanding bike infrastructure, and bringing bike manufacturing back to the United States.

"Cycling is good for people and good for our planet," Thompson said. "It just makes sense that we'd invest in expanding bike access and road safety so more Americans can benefit from cycling."

The act would widen access to federal funding for bike and pedestrian safety projects, support safer routes to school, expand commuting incentives, and link cycling routes to public transit. It would also create incentives to build bikes on American soil.

The bill now heads to committee. To become law, it must pass the House, the Senate, and be signed by the President. A long road, but a rare bit of bipartisan agreement that two wheels are worth backing.

Is this the kind of investment your roads have been missing?

01/06/2026

Har vi også problemer med infrastrukturen for cykler?

Every May, Bike Safety Month fills the calendar with advice about lights, helmets and visibility. The harder truth sits underneath all of it. The streets themselves have not kept pace with the people now riding on them.

Cycling has surged over the past several years, pushed along by health, sustainability and the rising cost of commuting. More people are riding than at almost any point in modern memory. Yet in many places the infrastructure, the policy and the funding have not caught up, and the result is a growing number of riders navigating roads that were never designed with them in mind.

The risk is not evenly spread. In the United States, urban areas account for around three quarters of cycling fatalities, and roughly a third of fatal crashes happen at dusk or at night. In Europe, vulnerable road users, including cyclists and pedestrians, make up the bulk of urban road deaths, and progress toward the continent's 2030 casualty-reduction targets is already slipping behind.

None of this is a reason to stop riding. It is a reason to be honest about where the responsibility actually lies. Reflective gear and good habits help, but no gadget closes a gap in a protected bike lane or fixes a junction designed only for cars.

The tools to build safer streets already exist. Bike Safety Month is a useful prompt, and the riders turning out in record numbers are doing their part. What remains uncertain is whether the streets they ride on will finally be built to meet them.

18/05/2026

Cykelkulturen under pres i Danmark:

🚨 Something is rotten in the state of Denmark🇩🇰. Their world-famous cycling culture is under pressure with 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐲. We should all pay attention!

For years, Denmark has been presented as the global model for urban cycling, bicycle safety, and increasingly also helmet promotion campaigns: ⛑️📈 Effectively targeting children and their parents has seen major increases in helmet wearing on their bikes.

But a major new national study now shows that everyday cycling is declining across society. Especially among younger people, but also among older adults in several categories. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐦 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡, 𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠.

Key findings from 2020-2025 data:
🚴📉 Cycling to work/education at least 3 times per week fell from 28% to 26% since 2020.
🧒📉 Among 15–19 year, cycling dropped from 38% to 32%.
🧑📉 Among 20–29 year, it fell from 38% to 34%.
👩‍🎓📉 Student cycling declined from 41% to 36%.
👵📉 Cycling also declined across most older age groups, with even people in their 70s cycling less for transport than before.

(report by Center for forskning i Idræt, Sundhed og Civilsamfund (CISC)/Jasper Schipperijn linked in comments)

A critical detail: the Danes are not cycling less because distances became longer. In fact, they now generally live closer to work and education than five years ago. So this is not simply an infrastructure story. It may be a behavioural and cultural one.

And that raises an uncomfortable question: 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬?

Over the past decade, safety messaging has intensified dramatically in Denmark: helmets, high-visibility gear, campaigns, warnings, regulations, and constant risk-focused communication. Of course safety matters. But behaviour follows perception.

Historically, Denmark and the Netherlands built world-leading cycling cultures because cycling felt ordinary, easy, spontaneous, and normal. You simply got on a bike and go.

But once an activity starts feeling like it requires equipment, preparation, and risk management, participation changes: especially among groups that are highly sensitive to friction, social perception, confidence, and routine.

And that is exactly why these findings are so troubling.

Young people are forming lifelong mobility habits right now. Older adults are the group with the most to gain from maintaining everyday movement, independence, cardiovascular health, balance, and social mobility. If both ends of society are slowly opting out of cycling, the long-term consequences could be enormous.

𝐈𝐟 𝐃𝐞𝐧𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐞 𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬.

16/05/2026

Hvorfor cykling er godt for økonomien:

Discover 7 real cycling economic benefits that have been research by the ECF and shown to benefit the European economy