We would like to start a new series here, and show you all the Postgirot Open memorabilia that we have. If you don't know, Postgirot Open was an annual professional staging bicycle race in Sweden. It was not in the same class as Giro d'Italia, Tour de France or Vuelta a España - bicycle sport simply isn't nor wasn't that big in Sweden - but it was, at the time, the biggest bicycle race in Northern Europe. It ran 1982-2002, but unfortunately the bank Nordea bought the Postgirot money transaction system in 2001, from the State-owned Postverket (which has subsequently been privatised), and obviously decided that they had no wish to continue sponsoring the race.
That's how capitalism works, but let's not go into a discussion about the evils of capitalism, but rather just show you a postcard from 1982.
Perhaps it isn't very elaborative, but it's still kind of cool since it shows the route of the race, from Gothenburg to Stockholm.
Well, we don't have very much more to tell you about it, since we really don't know that much about it ourselves. Tommy Prim, from Sweden, was the winner of the race.
Ride safe!
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