Martin Avander, founder, designer of the Pilen bicycle and builder of the Pilen production line, produces a Pilen bicycle with or without select extra equipment in about 20 minutes. That is the key to understanding the value and quality of the the Pilen bicycle.

Camera: Canon 5D Mark II, Carl Zeiss Distagon 28 mm T* and Røde Stereo microphone.

Pilen Cykel donates 5 bicycles to the Search and Rescue Station at Käringön Island in Bohuslän, Sweden. Traffic is forbidden on the Island except for the Search and Rescue personnel who are permitted to ride bikes, hence the lyrics: ”only heroes bicycle to their boat, the rest of us have to walk”.

Translated lyrics to the Song ”In love with Käring Island”

In Bohuslän where rocks are bare
the North Sea waves hits the shore
you wrecked your ship
and land is far away

But even in your grave distress
pale and cold and almost dead
their is hope of salvation
a Search and Rescue station

I fell in love with old Käringön
they bring warmth to the cold
only heroes bicycle to their boat
the rest of us have to walk

Motorns dag Målilla 2009. Motor’s Day in Målilla. Canon 5D mark II. Carl Zeiss Distagon 28 2.8 T*. Zoom H4n. On August first and second and for the seventieth 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.