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To offer something made by your own hands – is a common dream. We at the little factory in Målilla belong to the fortunate.
It's a wonderful experience to make a unique bicycle for real bicycle lovers
A Pilen bicycle lets the fine lustre of stainless steel, powder painting and alloy speaks proudly for itself. We do not cover the bike with decals and fancy gimmicks. Pilens are stabile, but also rapid and easy to ride, traditional but not boring, with pure lines and classic beauty.
Pilen bicyles is about love – to bicycle riding, the handiwork, the material and the people who use the bicycles
Pilen is built to ride comfortably on both gravel and tarmac. It has easy-rolling and very strong 28-inch wheels – considered by many to be the best on the market.
The carrier is capable of sustaining a lot of weight and pack and feels very secure with child chair. A Pilen is a bike for you, those who need a reliable friend in life that you can always trust. If you cycle to work, to a picnic with your children, or enjoy longer tours, then we believe Pilen is the optimum bike for you.
Are You ready to fall in love?
We recommend a trial run!
English News and Blog posts
Pilen donates bicycles to SSRS on Käring Island in Bohuslän
Since our last visit, we have longed to Käringön! The Avander family and Magnus Tamelander arrived at the port of Hällevikstrand and is picked up by the Swedish Sea Search and Rescue. We make an appointment with Anders and Matthias to have our 11 o'clock coffee on the rescue ship Broström the next day. The hotel is situated just near the shore and we stow our bags away and then go crab fishing in the warm winds and the salty fragrance from the sea.
A visit to Motor's Day in Målilla
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.
Do not fear the dark
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.
Business of the Year in Hultsfred Municipality
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!
Merry Pilen Bikers – send us your story!
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.
In the dim welding light ...
Martin the Engineer sleeps poorly, has deep wrinkles on his forehead and works to late in the evening. Strange sounds can be heard from the workshop. Something big is in the air here at Pilen Cykel, something that has not happened in many years.
Retailer party and Pilen 10-year anniversary
Now approaching Christmas by leaps and here at the bicycle factory, we have got a good taste of Christmas through our 10-year anniversary which we celebrated with a retailer party. We ate a genuine Småländskt smorgasbord where, besides the more traditional dishes, we served both potato dumplings, Swedish turnip pudding and cabbage pudding.
A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
The gingerbread biscuits are baked, the saffron bread is on the fermentation and now we are just waiting for the Christmas pig! We wish you all a bright and pleasant Advent, a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Louise, Martin, Anna-Lena, Ulrica, Angelica och Manne
Pike the Movie
Our photographer and slightly mad amateur filmmaker Magnus documented when Janne – Uppsala's most notorious pike fisher and a Pilen bicycle owner for several years – went autumn fishing. He then packs his bag full of hefty sandwiches with liver past and takes his Pilen down to Ekoln and the Gorran Bay south of Uppsala. he film is called Heavy Tackles, but is also called Pike the Movie among its fans.
Pilen in Milano
One cold day in April, I left Målilla to visit a Milan in the full bloom of spring. I was picked up by our dealer and good friend Simone. We travelled to his home where his family waited and the best risotto I have ever tasted!
New site
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.
Motopil
Half-way between Hultsfred and Målilla lives a very clever man with an even more clever son. They are the kind of people who live by the motto: If it aint broken – fix it anyway. That is: the construction and the fiddling is an end in itself and a great joy in life.
New album from the factory
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.
New films from the production
We have re-organised the factory and streamlined the production. Among other things, we have invested in a number of absolutely amazing ergonomically designed mounting tools - screwdriver, impact wrenches and striking impact wrenches - from Atlas Copco. They are both lightweight and comfortable to hold and applies exactly the right torque. We have thus been able to reduce noise and vibration in the environment.
A Pilen tour to Gibraltar
Four middle-aged men with very different physical conditions – albeit on identical Pilen bicycles – began the prologue from Visby on Gotland's southernmost tip Ljugarn, a trip of about 100 kilometers. The fifth cyclist joins in Målilla on Monday. Now, we would soon have an answer to whether Brooks saddlery could make saddles which also fits old Gotland fellow's behinds, if German gear hubs works for us amateurs and if Pilen bicycles are so fantastic, balanced and user-friendly as promised?
