Vi fick ett brev från Philip i Portland, Oregon. Han hade gjort ett bildspel och skrivit ett brev från "sin cykel": en Pilencykel som tagit sig hela vägen över Atlanten. Vi är så tacksamma att Pilencyklarna tar sig tid att berätta för oss om sitt liv med Pilencykeln. Och Portland verkar vara en riktig härlig cykelstad!

Vi tackar för tipset och ser fram emot att åka dit! Läs mer om Pilen i Portland.

Vi har haft fint besök i dagarna av Anders från cykelaffären Veloform i Göteborg. Som sällskap hade han med sig Sören som är en passionerad Pilencyklist. De hade på begäran med sig någonting så fascinerade som ett Rohloff Speedhub 14.

"Ett vad?", säger kanske en del av er nu. På andra börjar hjärtat slå lite fortare – och det med all rätt. Men både grupperna undrar nog ändå, varför det? Vad har Rohloff med Pilen att göra? Ett världskänt tyskt nav som bara de inbitna cykelfantasterna känner till och som få sett i verkliga livet och ännu färre provkört. Det ska vi berätta nu. Håll i hattarna så kör vi. Läs mer om Rohloff och Pilen.

Dagen efter motorns dag tog Martin, Magnus och barnen Landrovern till Hultfreds flygplats och flyguppvisningen som har något så orhört exotiskt som en äkta flygande Vickers Supermarin Spitfire på programmet. Det blev en liten film och några fina fotografier på skönheterna.

On August first and second, and for the seventy-first time in a row, Målilla launched its popular exhibition Motor's Day – a paradise for all persons interested in motors and engines.

The exhibition have the largest number of engines running in Sweden and boasted about five hundred exhibitors with all possible machines with an emphasis on the old. Visitors numbered in the thousands during the two days.

The filmmaker and photografer Magnus cooked up a small night cycle film when spring stood luscious and blackbirds were singing. It shows you that Pilen is an excellent bike even at night and you can feel safe riding your Pilen on both pitch dark roads and in evening traffic. A Pilen is comfortable in any environment. So crank up the volume and enjoy the song from birds and well-oiled hubs.

Today we are happy and proud in a way that you seldom allows yourself to be! We, of all companies in Hultsfred Municipality, has been designated Business of the Year Businesses Association ! It feels like, well maybe not a confirmation, but ... it fuels our spritits! It shows that we are doing something that is appreciated.

After a fantastic Mediterranean menu and a long ceremony, it was time for us to get up on stage and receive flowers and a diploma! It felt great! Many thanks to Hultsfreds municipalities and companies for this honor and award!

Our Filmophotograph and web guy Magnus has redesigned the site – so that You should be able to search and find with ease. Each retailer now has their own map shown on their respective page.

We also have built a new section on the website and named it Merry Pilen Bikers. There we will show particularly interesting Pilen bikers that we've come to know. We also want people who are not ashamed to boast about your rolling friend to send in a nice little story about you and your Pilen, your best Pilen image, where you live – and maybe You will be added to the Merry bunch of Pilen bikers on our website. You can view the Map where the Merry Pilen Bikers will be shown. For the moment there are not much to see, and no international bikers added yet. But time is on our side.

A new site with some modern solutions has been our top priority for some time now. The new site is different from the old mainly in that it is bilingual. The vast majority of the pages are both in Swedish and English. The reason is that the reputation of Pilen has reached far outside good old Sweden, and we would like to inform about our beloved bike to both Charles, Isabelle and Domhildur.

The Pilen cykel company has re-organised its factory and hired several new employees. As usual, we have focused our attention on the beauty of people, materials, machinery, tools and bicycle components.