Sweden´s largest cycling area

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www.bergslagencycling.com

bergslagencycling.com

• Started 2010 with a Leaderproject and 0 trails

• Me- a teacher that went bicycling every now and then

From teacher to projectmanager

• Tourism development manager

• Totally way past any healthy limit…

From projectmanager to….

• 1200 km mtb-trails

• 1400 km roadbikeroutes, 1600 km leisureroutes

From scratch to more then hundred

What´s Bergslagen cycling?

A cooporation between Region Örebro county, municipalities,

sports clubs and landowners

Sweden´s largest bicyclingarea

Bergslagen Cycling has more routes than any other area in Sweden

Region Örebro county

Sport clubsMunicipal

employees

Municipalities

Landowner

Back to how we started

• Leader project at 2010

• The first application was rejected

Who rejected and why

• The county administrativ board and Regional development

council

• Afraid of lot´s of different things…

Hikers hit by mountainbikers?

• Heavy traffic on the paths?

• Mountainbikers riding too fast

Protected areas

• Freshwater perl mussel

• Nature reservs

• Firing ground for Bofors

Landowners fears…

• Harvesting

• Destroying the roots of the trees

Protected areas

• Freshwater perl mussel

• Nature reservs

• Firing ground for Bofors

Meetings in the forest

• Landowners were mostly positive from start

• 10 months before we could start

180 km of signposted trails

• Footbridges

• Signing

Part two – bicyclists welcome

• Wash your bike, safe place night time, info about trails

• Tools, wasing and drying clothes, luggage service etc.

Project number 3 and 4

• Project 4, Central Baltic cycling interreg

• 2012 we started Bergslagen cycling

• Yet another one to come

• Municipalities develop new trails

9 different mountainbike areas

Problems with measuring

• How to measure the amount of visiting cyclists?

• Statistics from accomodations, count sold maps, Strava

Positive effects

• New entrprenuers and extended business

• New bike clubs, more sold bikes, many new cyclists

IMBA trail buildning school

• Restore our trails

• Take care of wet areas

The result

What´s next?

• Restore wet parts of the trails according to IMBAS method

• Trailcenters with pumptracks and skill courses

www.bergslagencycling.comkatarina.ronnbacka-nyback@regionorebrolan.se

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