{"id":79,"date":"2009-05-03T16:52:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T20:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/?p=79"},"modified":"2009-05-03T16:52:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T20:52:40","slug":"sykkelen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/sykkelen\/","title":{"rendered":"Sykkelen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bicycle.\u00a0 <strong>Sykkelen <\/strong>is one of my favorite things ever.\u00a0 <strong>Jeg elsker \u00e5 sykle <\/strong>(I love to bike).\u00a0 In southern MN where I live, the weather has not been the best this spring.\u00a0 However, today is <strong>perfekt.\u00a0 <\/strong>It is 67 degrees with <strong>mye sol <\/strong>(lots of sun!) and <strong>litt vind <\/strong>(little wind).\u00a0 I ate some <strong>frokost <\/strong>(breakfast) and hopped on my <strong>sykkel <\/strong>just before noon. I headed west to explore some new territory.\u00a0 I am an avid bicyclist not only for the great exercise and time to cruise and think, but it&#8217;s just fun for me to know that my own body can generate enough power to move me over miles and miles of beautiful countryside.\u00a0 I got really into biking when I was a freshman in college (6 years ago&#8230;).\u00a0 I lived in Oslo for <strong>\u00e5tte m\u00e5neder <\/strong>(8 months) and NEVER HAD A <strong>SYKKEL.\u00a0 <\/strong>I\u00a0thought it would cost too\u00a0much money to buy a <strong>sykkel <\/strong>when I was in Norway, especially since I would only have had a good 3-4 months of use.\u00a0 Looking back, I&#8217;m very disappointed that I did not take advantage of the opportunity to see one of my favorite cities by bike.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I know that Norwegians are active people and they are generally eco-friendly, but I never would have pegged Norway to be home to 2 of the world&#8217;s 11 top bicycling cities.\u00a0 <strong>Sandnes<\/strong> and <strong>Trondheim <\/strong>are 6th and 7th places, respectively, on the list.\u00a0 Amsterdam, as you may have guessed is #1, followed by Portland, OR, Copenhagen, Denmark, Boulder, CO, Davis, CA, then the two Norwegian cities.\u00a0 After Trondheim is San Francisco, CA, Berlin, Germany, Barcelona, Spain, and finally, Basil, Switzerland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Norwegian government started a pilot bicycle project in 1990 to try to reduce car traffic.\u00a0 The city is now the most friendly cycling city in Norway.\u00a0 In Trondheim, there is actually a bike lift (<strong>sykkel trampe<\/strong> or <strong>sykkel heis<\/strong>) that carries bicyclists up the steep terrain.\u00a0 18% of the city&#8217;s residents use bicycles as their main mode of transport to work and school.\u00a0 By 2015, Norway aims to raise bicycle traffic to at least 8% of all travel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim<\/strong>, and <strong>Drammen<\/strong>, tourists and locals alike have the opportunity to rent <strong>sykkeler <\/strong>for free or very cheap.\u00a0 The program is called CityBikes and depending on which city you are in, you can simply deposit a coin into the machine and once you return it, you will get your deposit back, or you can purchase a subscription card that you swipe to get the bike.\u00a0 For tourists who would otherwise walk or take public transportation to all of their destinations, CityBikes offers a cheap, healthy, and fun way to see the city.\u00a0 I encourage you to rent a bike if you tour to Norway anytime soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bicycle.\u00a0 Sykkelen is one of my favorite things ever.\u00a0 Jeg elsker \u00e5 sykle (I love to bike).\u00a0 In southern MN where I live, the weather has not been the best this spring.\u00a0 However, today is perfekt.\u00a0 It is 67 degrees with mye sol (lots of sun!) and litt vind (little wind).\u00a0 I ate some&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/sykkelen\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[2332],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}