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| Tour de France 2008 Photo: http://www.gamedemos.de/files/images/1/big_846tour-de-france-2008.jpg |
Biking in Helsinki metropolitan area is like attending Tour de France daily.
Bikes are almost of the same kind. The speed is nearly as much, and most people riding a bike here are dressed like the guys in the Tour de France.
If you want to enjoy the beautiful
seeside or just spend a sunny day biking, be very carefull. Finns
tend to take everything seriously and biking is not an exception.
Especially men in their 30´s -40´s are keen on making a new ”Tour
de Helsinki” -record. Forget about getting a better physical
condition or biking as an enviromental friendly alternative. This is
a question of life and death, time to show the other guys in the company that you are not a sissy. ”Today xxx km in xxx minutes
...”.And of course you train for the marathon too, but that is another story.
I guess this almost violent biking culture
depends also partly on the landscape profile and the distances here. Your destination
will probably be quite far away. That doesn´t exactly make biking a
thing to do in high heels and partyclothes.
But I still wish, that we would have a
biking culture without killerbikes, top equipments and expensive sporting
clothes, but a kind of slow biking with civilized clothes, high heels,
if you so wish, and bikes that are not necessarily so high-tech and
sporty.
Maybe I have to move to Holland or maybe Hanko would do.
Maybe I have to move to Holland or maybe Hanko would do.
Photos used as a base in the collage are from :
and from my son.
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