In Sweden children usually learn to ride their bicycle around the age of 3. In our neighborhood I have seen a “big brother” about 3 on a bicycle doing well with an 18 month old in diapers trying to keep up by using a scooter. Riding a bicycle is a way of life in Sweden.
In Copenhagen this style of bike with a front cart built in was the most common type. I didn’t see one in Sweden until this week, and in the cart was a little boy, and his little 2 wheel bike.
Here is another view of a bike with the cart on the front, in Denmark. Most popular in Sweden are the bike seats for children on the back fender, or sometimes a cart behind.
This is a decorative metalwork at the Cycle Park, which is for parking cycles. The second word on the sign, I can’t find a translation that seems right with Google Translate. Puss translates as “kiss” or “puddle”, and lunden as grove. The second part makes sense, but I don’t understand the first. Any help from my Swedish readers?
A cycle pump at the cycle park, that is provided for the city of Linköping.
This bamboo bike was in the window of an Eco shop, in Copenhagen. It is a prototype, and very expensive.
Each intersection has two boxes with a button for the traffic signal. One for bikes, and one for walkers.
Typical walking path, and biking path in Sweden.
Biking is a way of life in Sweden and Denmark. It is done in all weather, rain, snow, ice. This doesn’t always mean they don’t have a car, but only use the car when necessary.
Cykelparkering means parking lot for bicycles.
Pusslunden, well I guess your translation is as good as mine. The groove for kissing or the groove of the kiss. A “puss” is a kiss without tounge, like a kiss on the cheek, kindpuss. Pusslunden is right next to a student-operated pub/restaurant/theater/discothek, so one might imagine that as the students leave from there at the end of an evening, those who have made significant new acquintances, say goodbye to each other in an affectionate way as they pick up their bicycles.
Thank you Urban! Now it all makes sense.
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Hej Kathleen! Nice post!
The sign on the bicycle translates to, “kissing path”. 
Sorry, I meant Kissing Grove!
Puss puss! 
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Had to pop over today. I thought of you and your blog as a friend left for Sweden a few days ago. She is a big fan of H. Mankell of Wallander fame. My friend is visiting all around Europe for 2 weeks (she is orignally from Poland), so our talk made me think of you and your blog. Love this article about the biking. Those bikes for carrying children are so different than the ones I have seen here. I love the way the streets are laid out to be friendly to both pedestrians and bikers. Here I find both competing with each other in traffic and it makes for dangerous situations. I only learned to ride a bike in late junior high and only because I was given a bike as a gift. So, It never caught on for me. Great to start them young! It could be I am a klutz, but that is another matter.
I know what you mean about fighting traffic in the US. Also, everything is spread out a lot more, and in many places there are so many hills.