1st HU Sweden Adventure Weekend from 29 June - 1 July!
 

We are pleased to announce the 1st Horizons Unlimited Sweden Adventure Weekend! This event will focus on riding, campfire talks and evening presentations.

When?
Friday, 29 June to Sunday, 1 July

Where?
Rosentorps Bageri och Turistcamp
Rosentorp 101
79498 Orsa, Sweden
Tel +46 250 23910

Kai-Uwe Och has found this great venue and will host this event. We're very grateful to him for making this happen!

This event will be strictly limited to 25 travellers due to venue size. Online registration is open now!

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Online registration is open now!
 

Strictly limited to 25 participants due to venue size, this will fill up fast so don't delay!

All the details here. Online registration is open now!

Damn it
 

Me and a mate will be travelling through Sweden and Norway on road bikes around that time and a quick search for Rosentorp dropped a pin conveniently just North of Malmo but now I see Orsa is a lot further north out in track country and the Furthest North we are planning is Stockholm before heading West to Oslo but it looks like a great base camp so I'll be watching out for reports and pics of this meet and hopefully have a run out next year on the DR.

I'm going to be in Stockholm for a week or so at that time visiting my son and would love to have been able to come but I'll be on 4 wheels rather than 2 and with my wife and her now getting a little elderly parents. So, not to be this year but I'll put it on my watch list for 2019. Definitely post some pictures up afterwards.

There might actually be more than one Rosentorp in Sweden, I have not checked this. The one where the meeting takes place is in fact a little bit north of Orsa on lake Silja, a goid days ride from Stockholm. It is a bit of a detour if you want to go to Oslo, but the area around lake Siljan is very worth a visit!

With just a bit more than one and half months before the event I managed to register and get one of the 25 available places. Which, btw, I was expected to be long gone by this time.
I hope there will be others too. If not, more place for my bike :D

One quick question, how is the gas station situation on route? Meaning two things: all night opening hours or just by day, and cash or card? I know maybe a dumb question but better safe than sorry.
Thank you and see you there!

Ok, maybe the question seemed dumb in the age of google search but I feel a bit disappointed that the organizers do not answer too much on the thread. Especially to people who are coming and ask a question which can be a ‘life saver’ - no one wants to sit a night at a petrol station in the middle of nowhere because it is closed and the tank has only fumes.

On other note, in case that someone has the same dilemma - according to Dr. Google if you go on the smaller roads and you are far from a big city there are few 24h petrol stations, the rest have no info or they are closed between 9 - 10 PM to 5 - 6:30 AM. So better fill-up in time or have a 5L can for emergency.
According to the same source, usage of credit/debit cards should be no problem, although is not clear if in remote places it is popular. Usually people are talking about big cities and tourist destinations. And my experiene with Denmark, so far, is that sometimes I had to pay extra fees because I used a foreign card, plus my own bank fees, and there were places where cash was still the only option.

Maybe the hosts will be so generous to clear this thing with a short answer. After all, people outside Sweden will have to count on some good mileage on Swedish soil and depending on the tank size and consumption 2-3 or more stops for the much needed juice.

Sorry Kumuya for not answering earlier, but I am not checking this forum daily. There is quite a simply answer to your question about gas stations: ALL stations I have ever been filling up have at least one automated pump that accepts credit cards. So the opening hours are mostly related to this "little grocery store" next to the pumps, but if you bring a Mastcard / Visa WITH PIN CODE (!!!) you will have access to gas 24hours a day. One warning: I have heard (but not experienced myself) that the closest one in Noppikoski does not always have gas! More reliable is the one south in Furudal. Further south is Orsa, there are several gas stations and north again in Sveg (2 stations). In general you should not have any problems with a bike of 250km reach to find gas in Sweden in time, a 500km reach is not even necessary in the north, as long as you don't ride crisscross over the countryside without ever touching civilization.

I will sent out an email later tonight to all registered participants with some additional info and ideas. Please keep in mind that I am organizing this on my own, it's the very first time and it will me a much more informal meeting than the big ones like in UK or CanWest, where I have been before. Looking forward to meet everyone in Rosentorp! For sure we are going to have fun!

Yesterday (16.May) I sent out a long info email to all participants on the list. Please let me know if you have not received it or if there is snything I missed to mention.

Thank you for your answer! 10 times better than what I found on google.

Back from the route scouting weekend. Sadly it did not entirely work out as planned, because my battery died. When I was farthest away from Rosentorp I noticed that that voltage starts to drop, so I needed to go back the quickest way. Back at the cabin the voltage was down to 8.5V and of course the bike did not start any longer. So that was it.

However I know the area very well, so I will be able to suggest some great riding even without having tested all the routes before myself. I will be in Rosentorp a few days before the meeting, so I have still a chance to take a look at some questionable sections. I have prepared now several gravel routes and one great route which is almost entirely on asphalt.

Want to get an appetizer? Voila!

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This was my main concern when I first saw this event... it really seemed like it was not suitable for road bikes. :(

Sadly (or fortunately?) the location Rosentorp is quite in the middle of nowhere, which creates much of it`s charm. To get there you will need to drive a few km on an very well maintaned unpaved road (no comparisson to what I currently see here in Romania!) taking off from the E45, which can be done on basically any motorcycle. I have prepared also a nice route on 99% (ok, 95? ;-) ) asphalt around lake Siljan. Those remaining few km are to get back to the main road and an optional little detour to an outlook point on top of a hill.

As a second option there are two very intersting places well worth visiting close by, an old mine and a open air museum in an old farm, both highly recommended and accessible on paved roads.


So don`t be frightened by the word ”gravel”!

Sadly I received two cancellations the last days, so we have dpsce left for those to decide quickly to join!

Hello travellers!

Yesterday I arrived in Rosentorp after a ”little” 7000km detour through Romania! That trip was great and I am now looking forward to meet you all here!

Some short updates:

1. The 6km road to Rosentorp from the west ( last bit from ”Inlandsvägen” E45) has been freshly graded this spring and some sections have received a new layer of gravel. As I saw it`s not the complete distance from where the asphalt ends, that is now a bit harder to ride, but a few sections. My tips for those with little gravel experience: head up, look far ahead, stay relaxed, keep a bit of speed and if things get unstable to NOT appruptly close the gas but vice versa add a little bit! The access road from the east and the road from Furudal north seem to be in good riding condition.

2. Buy and bring insect repellant! The midges can become a bit annoying in the evenings.

Karin and Uwe have cut the gras recently to make hay for the sheep, so we have now plenty of space to spread out the tents!

Today I will try to check out some of the routes, which I couldn`t some weeks ago when the bike broke down.

Safe travels, and please try to fill up your gas tank in Furudal (if you come from the south east) or ride the additional 10km to fill up in Noppiskoski if you come from the southwest.

Looking forward to meet you all!

Greetings
Kai-Uwe

PS: weather forecast looks great, 20...25 dgr C and mostly sunny!