Skövde Wheels & Wings

I have to admit that travelling has left me somewhat tired and confused. But I did arrive at the correct destination for the Wheels & Wings event – Skövde, not Västerås as I initally thought.

We started off from Gothenburg. I was invited by a good friend who was going to do representative work for Sveriges motorcyklister, (it’s like a Swedish bikers union). It sounded like fun and apart from the event itself she was going to take her newly purchased Yamaha XT660 there.

Unfortunately, autumn arrived early in Sweden this year. We had a lot of rain on our way and it wasn’t too warm either. I have had plenty of opportunities to test my new rain gear and apart from being high viz, which is a pro on a grim day, I can’t say that it is doing a good job. But warm showers awaited us at Klåva hostel close to Skövde airport where the event was to take place.

Lillemor getting ready outside the hostel, well wrapped up in rain gear - this was minutes before the heavens opened and soaked us, despite rain gear :)
Lillemor getting ready outside the hostel, well wrapped up in rain gear – this was minutes before the heavens opened and soaked us, despite rain gear 🙂

The event had its main focus on cars, lots of nice old classics and airplanes but there were a couple of two- and one- (!) wheeled ingredients as well.

Amazing one-wheel bike project
Amazing one-wheel bike. This was a university project and it seems to have worked out quite well.

One of the main events was Sune and his stunt performance, check out his website, MC-Stunt. He has a lot of experience in this field and does remarkable stuff, I tried to capture some of it with my camera:

Sune does some really crazy stunts with his partner Jessica
Sune does some really crazy stunts with his partner Jessica
Our stand for the SMC, the red Ducati was a proper public magnet
Our stand for the SMC, the red Ducati was a proper public magnet

It seems like this was my last motorcycle event for this summer. The bike is now awaiting the paperwork for the import and Swedish registration. We finished off the weekend with a proper feast at a 50’s-style hamburger restaurant in the small village of Töreboda.

A burger worth remembering - and that is beetroot for your information
A burger worth remembering – and that is beetroot for your information

 

 

 

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Åsa

I'm a passionate biker from Sweden. I love to travel, preferably on my motorcycle. Please let me know what you think of my blog! Post a comment or send an e-mail: asa@forza.greynorth.net

3 thoughts on “Skövde Wheels & Wings”

  1. Hi there, how does it go with the registration of the bike? Hope it went smooth.
    Only about 4 1/2 month left (up north)to be back in the saddle again 🙂

  2. The registration went well in the end. My ambition is to post a documentation and guidelines, just been too busy with everything else but motobikes this autumn.
    Merry christmas to you to!

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