Maybe you should also get a bigger SUV or truck? 🤔 www.xkcd.com/3167

First snowfall of the winter, which means also the first snow plows of the winter. On bike paths, of course. Tomorrow's forecast is full of rain and all this snow will probably be gone very soon, but of course, we can't wait for that here in Oulu 🇫🇮 👌☃️🚲🚶❄️ #Oulu #Finland #MeanwhileInOulu

Excited to participate in the 13th National Seminar on Snow in Oulu, and the opening of the snow season ☃️🤩

Honoured to be on this list. What I love so much about Bluesky is how many people here care about better environment, better streets, better mobility, better transit, and better cities. Go follow the others on this list. Your feed will thank you 🚲🌆

It's #ruska2025 #ultracycling event time very soon again! This year we start our way from Verla, Finland on 12th Sep, hopefully completing about 2000 kilometers to North Norway within a little over 8 days. I've now published two Q & A -videos about Ruska, here's the 2nd episode: youtu.be/7ROtV3CVBDQ

Transporting about 100 kg of traffic signs on my old 1950's cargo bike 🤌 #MeanwhileInOulu #Oulu #CargoBike #CarryShitOlympics

The Nallibaana cycling and pedestrian baana (superhighway) in Oulu has received a national honorable mention for construction projects, the press release says. It was awarded by the Finnish Municipal Engineering Association. www.kaleva.fi/oulun-nallib...

The Winter Mobility survey is still open until the end of April, please participate! 🚴‍♂️❄️😊

New video up! Oulu 200 km brevet in the best weather of this spring 🥰☃️🚲💨 ENG and FIN subtitles! 🤌 youtu.be/pTg2kngLLBk

April 10th,and almost all the snow has already melted. Anyway, it was -7°C in the morning (it's snowing now again) and loads of kids cycled to Linnakangas elementary school in Kempele, next to Oulu Finland 🇫🇮. Like they do every school day, rain or shine, snow or sleet. Because it's easy, fun & safe.

Today 15:30 Finnish time at Radio Kaleva, www.radiokaleva.fi

Happy to cycle with @pekkatahkola.bsky.social legendary bicycle man frim Oulu who knows absolutely everything about all-year cycling in the North

Help us learn more about how people travel in winter and participate in a short survey! form.typeform.com/to/wYMF4MzC The survey is conducted in collaboration between the FinnCycle research program at Tampere University and the @wintercycling.bsky.social ❄️🚴‍♀️❄️🚴❄️🚴‍♂️❄️ #wintercycling #yearroundcycling

Random fact of the day: There are more saunas in Finland, than cars. Let's continue keeping the numbers this way, please 😊 #MeanwhileInFinland 🇫🇮

If you were planning to come to the IceBreaker but couldn't make it in the end, worry not. The session got recorded and you can watch it on our website: shorturl.at/bxsuu Also, even if you did join us live, you can return to your favorite parts now. And give us feedback! shorturl.at/ggHQR ❄️🚴‍♀️❄️🚴❄️🚴‍♂️❄️

As a #tbt (or #tbf) here's a small thread of #groceryshopping by #bike in #Oulu. It was -9 or -10°C so pretty warm for us. 1/x #MeanwhileInOulu

Otso Waheela C - My ultracycling bike, bags and gear setup introduction video, after 50 000 km in a bit over three years' time 🧸🤌 youtu.be/7dHmYl1jOJs

Oulu Urbanism Master Class, 4.-6. Feb 2025 - there's still a couple of places left if you're quick! Welcome to Oulu, to embrace, feel, and really understand how it's possible to make a truly bicycle-friendly city even in our arctic conditions, with your own eyes and legs! 🤗 youtu.be/uGm_Kq511tk

"Cycling through the Snow" by English illustrator Lucien Davis (1860 - 1941) ❄️🚴‍♀️❄️🚴❄️🚴‍♂️❄️ Cycling obviously wasn't created as a summer activity. #urbancycling #wintercycling #yearroundcycling

Watchihg this cycling livestream was so much fun, and educational! (Dreaming of a global Fancy Woman Bike meet up in Oulu, maybe next February?) #winterbike

My live stream from the (finally again) snowy paths of Oulu today in just about two hours, at about 10:40 a.m. MST (Edmonton) 19:40 p.m. EET (Oulu) The livestream is part of the free online IceBreaker event by @wintercycling.bsky.social and the exact starting time depends on its schedule. Welcome!

On Wed Jan 22nd, @wintercycling.bsky.social is providing us all the free IceBreaker online event 🤌 Also featuring my livestream bicycle ride from Oulu 🇫🇮🚲☃️🤗 Register now at shorturl.at/s0gnT

Lots of colors today on the frozen sea 😍🇫🇮 #MeanwhileInOulu #Oulu #Finland

Ilmari Koppinen, 107 yr old. His exceptional physical condition was a subject of an international study, when he was 97 years old & cycled 5,000 kilometers a year. Researchers contribute this to his athletic background, intellectually active lifestyle & social connections. www.is.fi/terveys/art-...

Kaikkea sitä. Ruska 2022 blog, osa 8 - Suolovuopmi - Birtavarre. #Ruska2022 @RandonneursFi pappiskapartio.blogspot.com/2025/01/rusk...

My eyes radiating joy when I get to pedal in nice balmy -22°C 🥰 #MeanwhileInOulu #Oulu 🇫🇮

Our main bicycle & foot path network maintenance contractor (and of course Mr. Santa himself too) are giving out hot drinks and gingerbread cookies, and of course collecting feedback from the path users tomorrow along the main 🚲🚶 path 1 & 2 in Kuusisaari. Welcome! 🤗 #MeanwhileInOulu #Oulu #Finland

Ahh finally it's eyelash weather again 🥰 #MeanwhileInOulu #Oulu 🇫🇮

Tom: "I have long dreamed of Pekka Tahkola sitting in a box bike and playing while I pedal and sing. Absolutely amazing! The Maestro coped wonderfully with the cramped conditions of the box and the cold biting his fingers." And the world is a little more fun again. Cycling is such a joyful thing ❤️🚲

"There's a gap in the infrastructure". Arriving on stage at Liigume Movement Conference - Schools in motion, in Kääriku, Estonia 👌

On stage in a few hours: linnaplaneerija, heaoluinsener ja maastikurattaguru Oulust 👌 Livestream at liigume.ee/koolikonvere...

For all those wondering, here's my earlier live stream video about the projected traffic signs we use here in Oulu, Finland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFee... As @harrivaarala.bsky.social always says 😉: Innovated in #Oulu ✅ Concepted in #Oulu ✅ Piloted in #Oulu ✅

Starting my trip towards Estonia, to speak at a conference, and traveling there of course at least by bike and train. Well maintained bike paths after the night's snow dump, and lots of space at 07:30 am on a quiet Sunday morning 👌 #MeanwhileInOulu #Oulu 🇫🇮 1/

Just some regular traffic on a +0°C day with freezing wet drizzle and freezing fog on a pretty car-centric semi-industrial area in Oulu, Finland today. Vertical video. #MeanwhileInOulu #Oulu

They're forecasting fun weather for tomorrow here in Oulu 🇫🇮. Wind gusts up to 21 m/s with (only 🙄 ) about 6 cm of new snowfall. Thing is, weather events can be fun when you know the city will maintain bike & foot paths 24/7 at highest priority, no matter what 👌 #MeanwhileInOulu

Snow (plowing) season has finally started in Oulu 🇫🇮. 2 cm of new snowfall must always be gone within 3 hours on entire 166 km main 🚲🚶 network, 24/7. So, maintenance needs to be fast, reliable & efficient 👌 Join our Oulu Urbanism Masterclasses to learn more! 🤗 #MeanwhileInOulu #CityMasterclass

A section of this bike path was very poorly illuminated, so 1st of Oct I sent feedback to the city, asking them to fix this. Not just a dead lamp, but there wasn't even any poles. To my surprise, they installed a completely new one pole and lamp quite quickly 🤌 #MeanwhileInOulu #Oulu 🇫🇮

The newest episode of my #Ruska2024 #ultracycling VLog is up in YouTube. Also the next one will be up very shortly! Ruska 2024 E18: Extremely Stupid Adventures 🤩🧸 For English captions, select the Finnish subtitles, and set them auto translate to English. That works pretty well 👌

Build it and they will come. A new 2024 daily record on the way again on this 🚶🚲 path in Oulu, Finland 🤗#MeanwhileInOulu #Oulu 🇫🇮

#MeanwhileInOulu: The local newspaper Kaleva writes an article that there's a crack in the surface of one of our main bike paths 👌

Ahh lovely weather today here in #Oulu 🇫🇮🥰🥰 #MeanwhileInOulu

"Oulu in northwest Finland is considered the world's capital of all-season cycling. City planners from around the world come to the city of 200,000 to learn how to make winter cycling attractive." Check out this 43-min NDR 🇩🇪 document about Oulu! www.ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZD...

Remember to register to the numerous Edmonton Winter Cycling Congress community events! Most of them are free to the public and of course to congress delegates as well, but you need to register 👇 www.yegcyclingcongress.ca/communityeve...

This Friday! We can't wait to get to Edmonton for our live show and to meet all the folks attending the Winter Cycling Congress. Get your tickets now: www.eventbrite.ca/e/live-podca...

Check it out, #yegbike: We're hosting CoffeeOutside on Feb 23! Also invited: the Winter Cycling Congress attendees (including @pekkatahkola.bsky.social!) As an extra treat, the River Valley Café will provide coffee & hot chocolate (& a fire pit)! *Feb 23, 07:30-08:30. Louise McKinney Park* #WCC🚲

Opening up Oulu Urbanism Master Class day 1. Participants from Anchorage Alaska, Minneapolis, Switzerland and Germany. Photo by Harri Vaarala

Many of our 🚶🚲paths are covered by a thin layer of snow for months every year, so the painted markings can be invisible. In addition to regular traffic signs, we're using simple projected symbols to help people remember which side to walk and which to pedal on 👌😌 #Oulu 🇫🇮#MeanwhileinOulu

Puhetta pyöristä, pyöräilystä ja oululaisesta pyöräilykulttuurista Radio Kalevassa tänään aamulla klo 07:40 alkaen 👌

Huomenna tiistaina 23.1.2024 Yle Radio Suomessa klo 18-20 Talvipyöräilyilta, jossa keskustelemassa Mikko Peltsi Peltola, allekirjoittanut ja Pyöräliiton toiminnanjohtaja Janne Paananen. Löytyy myös Yle Areenasta! 🤗

This is Metsokangas elementary school in the far suburbs of Oulu . It was -31°C in the morning (-40° windchill). What you see here is just 1 of the 4 parking lots for students. It's not about the cold, it's the safe infrastructure & excellent maintenance. No rocket science. #MeanwhileInOulu #Oulu 1/