We tried our RACING BIKES to discover the beautiful HÖGA KUSTEN or HIGH COASTS of SWEDEN. And we discovered that you come across quite some DIFFICULTIES WHILE TRYING TO CYCLE a RACE BIKE IN SWEDEN. With this video we hope to share what we encountered, so you can avoid to meet the same issues. So that is why we made this “2 THINGS TO CONSIDER WHILE CYCLING BEAUTIFUL SWEDEN” video. But with that we also LOVED CYCLING the HIGH COASTS, so we found an amazing DJ called MOZART to provide some music. We hope you will enjoy!
We are Sabine and Marco, and together we are living in a CONVERTED LONG WHEELBASE VW TRANSPORTER T6.1 (by TONKE CAMPER vans). We are enjoying our VANLIFE EUROPE SABBATICAL and this camper van is all we need as a very TINY HOUSE ON WHEELS for our VAN LIFE JOURNEY. We call ourselves 010camper.
Chapters:
0:00 This episode, Cycling in Swedens High Coasts
0:24 Intro
1:01 What we experienced in Sweden
1:24 Our racing bike cycling background
1:57 Attention point 1: Paved roads
2:54 Attention point 2: Unexpected gravel roads
3:26 Explain why Strava and Google Streetview do not work
5:29 Exploring the High Coasts | Höga Kusten by bike (and Mozart)
11:54 Please subscribe + funny outro
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Amazing Music:
Coming Home (ft Ollie Wade) by Niwel & Altero
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7 Comments
From time 5:29 and further we used Mozart as our video music. We LOVE it, but is this something you like? Can you let us know?
The cost is just to high considering the amount of people that live along and use the roads. Next time bring bikes with fat tyres. 🙂
Long live the off road bikes !!!!! Met dikke banden zie je een groter stuk van de wereld 😊
Dear S&M,
in Scandinavia and in most of the countries in the world, they consider a gravel road also as a hardened pavement like macadam. So there is a lot of "paved" roads out there. We've the same experience a few years ago and our solution was to adapt our tyres ( and bikes) to be able to come to the nicest places at the end of the road.
Best regards,
S&B
check this map. https://nvdb2012.trafikverket.se/SeTransportnatverket choose 'slitlager'=wear bearingdraag lager in 'vad vill du se på kartan'=what will you see on the map. The red are paved, The blue are gravel. Trafikverket is the official traffic responsible authority in Sweden.
Compare the number of kilometers road i Sweden vs Netherlands. Gravel is much cheaper and easier to maintain. During the winter we have ground frost and during the spring asphalt roads gets a lot om damages when the frost are melting while heavy traffic,. There are not so much resourses to maintain the roads, not even the existing. And of course as you say it depends on the traffic intensity. But you can always use a mountain bike, cyclocross or gravel bike. I use 28mm on my roadbike. No problem with gravel unless it's not new prepared with loose makadam. But I live in southern Sweden. There are a lot of nice paved roads. https://swedenbybike.com/en/cykelleder/?post_types=cycleroute
Gaaf begin….
Most of the roads with gravel are private and leads into a small village or a little community with maybe 20-30 houses. Basically 70% of Swedes live from Stockholm and down south, so to re-pave every small road in the country is impossible especially so far north. The asphalt wont survive for long up there anyways, in winter the asphalt contracts and in the summer it expands. So no point in spending billions of dollars for it to be useless in 2-3 years.