I think most underestimate the effects of having a blog on Blogger which is part of Google. So for example if I were to decide to write 'Projekt Svensk Cykel' in every inlägg a Google search for 'Projekt Svensk Cykel' would lead to this site first before the actual Projekt Svensk Cykel which SCF has been planning for years and which will eventually get it's own website. And the fact that I have written it already 3 times here is enough to influence the searches. It doesn't take much.

Most of the search engine visits to this website are from people that google 'Ridley X-Ride' because I am constantly talking about my brilliant cross bike here. So in my next inlägg I thought I would help out SCF for a change and talk about this baslicens för motionär that SCF doesn't seem to be promoting at all but would be a serious help for the sport if anyone did find it.

It will be a permanent link up to the right here and a helpful way to help people find the right direction and enjoy their cycling. And it won't cost 250000kr to develop the idea...

I will admit that I did have a slight thought of skadeglädje when I volunteered to represent Göteborgs CK at SCFs annual meeting. Things haven't exactly gone smoothly during 2012. But also it gives a good idea of how things work and how change could happen. Or maybe change is the wrong word.

The meeting really was full of gubbar and from what I could tell the meeting was going on in precisely the same way it always does. The whole left side of the room voted one way and the right side the other. For those of you that read the list of official motions there were many very relevant points which I have brought up so many times here...silly licence rules, loss of motionär at larger races and so on...all proposed by Dalarnas CF and all shot down. This was worse than a Kafka novel.

A lot of things were said about this mysterious 'Svensk Cykel' and the part that annoyed me the most was that the meeting approved budgeting 250000kr to developing a new website and forum for promoting cycling. Not only will this give money to a company run by one of the newly re-elected styrelse members but it is completely pointless. No matter how much they put into a website it is us the cyclists that will give a view to Svensk cykel. I would bet that Öijer has done way more for cycling online than most others. And CX Sweden didn't cost 250000kr to develop and it is a superb forum for CX. They know nothing about the internet and how much effort it takes to undo the kind of negative press that an inlägg like this can cause.

Their budget has left only around 70000kr for each of the 'Grengrupp' and from what I can see this is where the sport develops. But what can you do with that much? Especially when 50000kr of that is meant for prize money for cup winners. The prize money for all the other races is suppose to come from the clubs or these mystical sponsors that we can't find.

This is all going to hell very quickly and I am glad that I am involved at the local level because communicating with SCF is pointless...

In 2012 I was not exactly the very first to jump on my CX for a little tjuvträning during the summer so to be sure I am definitely first in 2013 I started with CX last Sunday. Well, okay. Maybe some would just call this normal vinterträning. But it was on a cross.

I was getting bored with the running and since there is basically no ice out it was time for cycling. And soon it will be time for riding to work too so I had to make a quick decision of whether to look for a new hybrid or to use one of my existing bikes. My Merida Cross 4 is old enough that it can be sacrificed for this kind of thing so a little road salt and assorted winter shite is fine. And off I went for a simple Allum - Jonsered - Kåhög - Kviberg (GP) - Sävedalen tour which featured an unusual wind direction from the side all the time.

This weekend looks sunny and warm enough for a lagom mix of Vasalopp TV and cycling outside...wonderful x 2! The good news about last week is that my toes froze before I was actually tired, had a flat or general mechanical failure. In other words I won't be able to overtrain.

Of course one does get inspired by Ronde van Vlaanderen and the chance to try out some proper cycling for such a low price...