Biketour in Turku (last year)

Sorry, this entry is only available in English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. On the 4th of September, we arrived in Turku. Our main base was Pyöräpaja Vapaa Ratas, a bike workshop that sells old bike parts and fixed-up bikes on a regular bike flea market (from the money, the rent is paid) and where people can also come to fix their bikes or have them fixed. It is in Aurinkotehdas, an old bicycle factory that is now used for…

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Biketour at Livonsaari (last year)

Sorry, this entry is only available in English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. From the 31st of August to the 2nd of September, the Biketour stayed at Livonsaari, a small village about 40 km west of Turku. In Livonsaari, many people try to live together in a more ecological and communal way. There are many different initiatives by different individuals in the village, such as a baker baking organic bread from locally produced wheat, someone building sustainable houses with a…

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Biketour on Åland (last year)

Sorry, this entry is only available in English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. After Stockholm, at the end of August 2015, we cycled north towards Kapellskär to ferry-hop towards Turku across the Åland archipelago. The Åland archipelago is a collections of literally hundreds of thousands of islands in the Baltic Sea between the Swedish and Finnish mainland, and it is known for its exceptionally beautiful landscape. Åland belongs to Finland, but its official language is Swedish. Only people who have…

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Veganism on the Biketour

Sorry, this entry is only available in English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. On the Biketour, all common meals and all things bought by communal money are vegan. This means that they should not contain neither any animals (meat, fish, chicken, gelatine, shrimps, lobsters, carmine, leather, etc.) nor any products produced by animals (milk, eggs, honey, bee’s wax, wool). On the last tour, in Broddetorp in the end of July 2015, we did a workshop about this topic. In case you…

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Links #6: Tall Bike Tour, Self-driving Bikes, Critical Mass arrests in Minsk, SapfoFest, Overtaking Buses

Sorry, this entry is only available in English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Tall Bike Tour Introducing the self-driving bicycle (April Fools!) Minsk: Two participants of Critical Mass cycling event may face up to 6 years in jail SapfoFest is the first independent community-initiated festival in the Baltics and is happening for the 5th time this summer. We are excited to join with the Biketour! (Facebook event, the website is not updated yet) Teaching bus drivers what it feels like to…

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Links #5: Bike caravan, Ban on Abortion, Ban on Gas-Powered Cars, Cycling Diary, Velocipedia

Sorry, this entry is only available in English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. DIY micro mobile home Mass Mobilization Against the Ban on Abortion in Poland The Netherlands Will Ban New Gasoline-Powered Vehicles By 2025 Cycling in the north: Travel diary of a cycling trip in the north of Germany and in Denmark Velocipedia: 3D models of bike sketches that people have drawn

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Biketour in Stockholm

Sorry, this entry is only available in English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. On the 21st of August 2015, the Biketour arrived in Stockholm. Our sleeping place was meant to be Kulturhuset Cyklopen, a cultural centre in the south of Stockholm. Arriving there, it turned out that there was not really a lot of space to sleep, so we decided to only spend one night there and have a look for new sleeping opportunities for the other 4 nights the…

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Links #4: Blocking a Pedestrian Crossing, Consensus, Białowieża Forest Logging, Unusual Bikes

Sorry, this entry is only available in English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Random guy shows car driver how a pedestrian crossing really works! Beyond ‘Consensus’ decision making (written by a former Biketour participant) Poland approves large-scale logging in Białowieża forest, one of the only original forests left in Europe. The Biketour will cross it on the way from Warsaw to Minsk. Cycling scarecrow Artist rides dinosaur bike across Norwegian Bible Belt  

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