It's a train!No,it's a bicycle! No, wait! What the hell is that?

Up-down, up-down, my legs are pushing themselves, and the swooosh, I freewheel for a short while, clickity-clack, clickity-clack, the slight downhill means I am picking up a little speed, clickity-clack, clickity clack, we giggle, this is simply too cool, too random, it's awesome!

People have a way of making random inventions that exploit things of the days gone by; a burnt house makes for an awesome paintball field, or an old submarine as a new age museum. What would you do if you had a stretch of old railway that was no longer in use but that stretched through beautiful farm lands and little bits of valley? Make a rail-bicycle of course!


We discovered  Dressincykling in one of tourist guides Karolina and I had been rummaging through during her brief one week visit in Lund. Considering the Viking Museum was still closed we decided to give it a look. We got off at a random bus stop on the other side of Dalby and found ourselves walking with lush green grass on one side and forest on the other. It felt as though we had literally been dropped in the middle of nowhere with little farm houses dotting the landscape.

Eventually we found Dressincykling but no one was there :( Never fear there was a simple sign stating that if you wanted to ride you just had to call a number and someone would be by to help you. And that's exactly what happened.

A man, who spoke hardly any English and gave me a chance to practice my Swedish, arrived shortly in his sedan, unlocked one of his bicycle contraptions, explained some of the rules (in Swedish, which I understood, High five!), and soon enough we were off.

Karolina and I were baffled and amazed and sat plotting  whether he was a farmer or a pensioner and we thought about how this was a very profitable little enterprise that required very little maintenance. We paid our 250 SEK for the bike (250 per bike which can take 2 people) and were soon on our way.

We glided through a lovely little valley, got a sneaky look at some farm houses, even saw some farm animals, before the landscape opened up and we were greeted with large yellow and green fields. We did our best to capture the awesome with our tiny digital cameras before settling down for a lovely little picnic which fringed on a beautiful forested area and would have made for a lovely walk.

The track was a mere 7kms one way but it flew by so quickly allowing for little bits of freewheeling and whoooohoooos! I tried to take a couple of videos to capture both our excitement and the atmosphere. Enjoy:

Yes, I am a dork...

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It made for a lovely trip and makes for a lovely morning or afternoon getaway!