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Racing bikes and longships at the Viking Ship Museum 

The exhibition If your bicycle was a Viking ship compares a top-tuned and feather-light racing bike with the zenith of Viking Age technology: the long and narrow warship, built for high speed. Searching for similarities between the two is not as crazy as it might initially seem.

More than 1,000 years ago, the Vikings put Scandinavia on the world map. The sea was their playground, their challenge and where they excelled, the result of many years of training, learning and hard-won experience. Just as the roads of today are for the professional cyclists in the Tour de France.

The exhibition pays tribute to one of the world’s largest sporting events by displaying two thoroughbred racing bikes and a specially designed racing helmet beside the Museum’s longships, Skuldelev 2 and Skuldelev 5. The comparison focuses on design compromises, aero and hydrodynamics, power transfer as well as wood and carbon fibers – in a story dressed in shades of yellow, green and red spots.

The exhibition is created in collaboration with the Danish bicycle manufacturer PRONGHORN RACING Aps and Team Danmark, with support from Roskilde Municipality.
 

When: May 25^th – August 31^st 2022
Price: Free when purchasing a ticket to the museum. Children under 18 are free.

The exhibition is created in collaboration with the danish bicycleproducent PRONGHORN RACING Aps og Team Danmark med støtte fra Roskilde Kommune.