Bjärö Peninsula Loop

The Bjärö Peninsula Loop trades coastline for the rougher inland country behind it — a rolling, repeatedly-uphill circuit through the forests and farmland of inland Halland. Nothing here is a mountain, but the climbing never really stops: short ramps out of every valley, a long enough day that the legs know exactly how much has accumulated by the final hour. It's a training-ground route more than a postcard one, the kind of loop that rewards riders who like their long rides with texture rather than flat kilometres.