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Spotted: Brompton family van

A heavily loaded Brompton in Stockholm.
Image caption: A heavily loaded Brompton, spotted in Stockholm: a child seat mounted to the rear rack, a kid balancing on the main frame and an unused foldable trailer strapped to the front carrier bag (unfortunately, this is the best shot I could get of it after digging out the phone but it was a deeply fascinating view!).

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First bike commute of 2016

Provided with a beautiful sunny morning, even the bone-freezing -16°C could not stop me from riding to work today! Painful at times, and technically challenging, it was such a pleasure to be out on the two wheels again...
Image caption: Provided with a beautiful sunny morning, even the bone-freezing -16°C could not stop me from riding to work today! Painful at times, and technically challenging, it was such a pleasure to be out on the two wheels again…

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Please do not attach your bike here

"Per cortesia non attaccare bici a questa grata grazie"
Image caption: “Per cortesia non attaccare bici a questa grata grazie” – if it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing (seen in Bologna, Italy)

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Watching the Northern Lights

The night 7./8. October featured a very strong aurora display, with Northern Lights dancing about Helsinki in an intensity I had never seen before this far down in the South. A good excuse to drop everything and rush out to a dark spot:

As usual, the battery of the unprepared photographer of course died just before the most intense phase – then again, what’s better to just lie on your back on a rock and look straight up, into one of the most amazing spectacles nature has to offer, and not worry about exposure times?

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Autumn sun

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Image caption: At Vuosaari in Eastern Helsinki, on a Sunday afternoon ride in the warm autumn sun.

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A little morning detour

With my current office located about 1/3 around an inlet of the Baltic Sea, I chose the longer route this morning (2/3 around said inlet, the other way around).

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Image caption: Viikki nature reserve, entering from Herttoniemi.

What better to make use of an early wake-up than to enjoy the beauty of a nature reserve from the seat of a bicycle while others grow grey hair in traffic jams or squeeze themselves into crowded buses?

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Image caption: Headless rider? Must be related to the early morning… (It has to be said: the Brompton makes for very weird shadows sometimes)

With autumn around the corner, these last few days of late summer once more show the awesomeness that is Finnish nature.

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Image caption: It doesn’t get much more stereotypical than this!

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Spring bliss in Viikki

If you need any more arguments why running errands by bike is bliss: it's moments like this, when a 9 pm sunset combined with the fresh green of early spring create an almost magical atmosphere (taken in the Viikki nature area, Helsinki).
Image caption: If you need any more arguments why running errands by bike is bliss: it’s moments like this, when a 9 pm sunset combined with the fresh green of early spring create an almost magical atmosphere (taken in the Viikki nature area, Helsinki).

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Parking your bike with style

Bold parking at Tammisto.
Image caption: The commercial area of Tammisto/Vantaa has one of the most car-centric layouts imaginable. I can’t help but see a political statement in the bold way this cyclist has parked their ride.

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A Kivinokka sunset

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Stopping at Tervasaari to enjoy the sunset

Communting by bike means: the freedom to do a loop through Tervasaari island to admire the spring sunset over Merihaka and Kallio.
Image caption: Communting by bike means: the freedom to do a loop through Tervasaari island to admire the spring sunset over Merihaka and Kallio.

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An evening ride in Helsinki

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Bike parking as a statement

Municipal election candidate Otso Kivekäs has cycling as a top priority on his agenda - this is reflected in the way he parked his campaign cargo bike at the Greens' election party.
Image caption: Municipal election candidate Otso Kivekäs has cycling as a top priority on his agenda – this is reflected in the way he parked his campaign cargo bike at the Greens’ election party.

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