DEW FILES – Finland

After catching word that the next Dew Files would take place in Finland during the month of January, Dr Dew’s thoughts were, “Thank goodness it isn’t a Hawaiian shoot!” Welcome to winter biking’s most friendly city. With over 1,200 km of cycling routes, a little darkness and freezing temperatures doesn’t stop the thousands of Helsinki commuters who ride to work every day through rain, sleet, and snow. In this installment of the Dew Files, we take Kona’s intrepid bike designer into the heart of winter to find out just how hardy the Finns are. “The Finns show a great enthusiasm for life,” explains Dew. “Their warmth and hospitality made it feel like we were in Hawaii instead of being just outside the Arctic Circle.”

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It’s like being in a a Christmas postcard aarti bikes for hearty people Kona is popular with the fins so we decided to pay them a visit in the middle of January to see what make them tech make them so darn tough why winter here just a stone’s throw from the Arctic Circle

It’s no big deal – 10 – 20 nothing seems to slow these people down kind of nice pushing it this way here because I got a pretty brisk kill and the bike just wants to fly almost 14,000 riders this month already amazing so cold here tell me like if it snows

Tonight are you arriving to work tomorrow yes every day every day good for you it’s like 10 centimeters – no problem no I’m usually they they take it away quite early on the bike paths – yeah do you ride every day of the year yeah every

Day and you’re not cold today right now this is just normal riding on this one this is warm crazy a from Canada where think we’re pretty tough guys you know the way we beat the Finns at hockey and stuff but now since we’ve been here in Finland we realized it’s pretty darn

Cold you ride to work every day how what do you think the temperatures like today not bad this is quite warm huh Steve Austin butoh LaPenta dollar and postman la nieve agency I am already at the is Tyson hey how you doing so this is just a little path you live around here

Somewhere yeah it goes around the whole island so it’s really nice you get to see the sea that’s the same path going all the way around must be awesome here in the summertime cool thank you you tell all the girls in Finland that Kona loves them okay I would have to

Call this trip gastronomical success whether it’s the hearty fish booze reindeer meat fact carrying sashimi and mustard sauce the food’s been over-the-top delicious you got to eat to stay warm in this country and we did a good job of it just around quitting time from work we’ve come across this young fella here

On a whoa whoa whoa what’s your name okey-dokey yeah looky that’s a good finish name yeah and you live in Helsinki you know I’ll even see parts 32 kilometres from here so 32 back and forth 60 kilometres a day yeah I’m the fat fight yeah every day not every day

In the winter but in the summertime how long is your winter here six my five five or six other winter this winter no problem there was no snow so it’s only ice yeah but two years ago or three years ago though very much snow and it was awesome well there you have it

Helsinki Finland we’re really proud to be a part of the biking culture here pack we’re pretty proud of all the people that ride bikes around here no matter what your riding looks like the snows starting to fall winters on its way – 20 next week we’re out of here

Our name yeah that’s gonna be oh wait junkie ice-cream is trying to cook some lunch out of the water here Finnish winter