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Rubber Clarification
A while back we blogged about the beautiful vintage bicycles of Ferrara. One of the photos was of a rubber thingy attached to handlebars, something many bicycles featured. We were wondering what they...
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Wheel Art
This is wild and I don't care who knows it.Copenhagenize the planet. And have a lovely day.
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Avoidable Tragedy with 30 km/h Zone?
Join the Facebook Group 30 kb/h for 30 km/h zones in Copenhagen and FrederiksbergLast night a tragedy took place right down the street from where I live with my children. A mother and daughter were...
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Can You Afford NOT to Use Your Bicycle for Commuting?
Here's the first of what we hope are many enlightening blogposts from a Copenhagen colleague Lars Barfred.Lars has worked in managing positions for a number of large corporations in sales, marketing...
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Copenhagen Bicycle Traffic Flow
I often return to this graphic that shows the flow of bicycle traffic in Copenhagen between 06:00 and 18:00 on weekdays. I found it in a City of Copenhagen brochure a couple of years ago and spiced it...
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Save The Street With Bicycles!
Photo from the Facebook group Red H.C. Ørstedsvej! (Save H.C. Ørsteds Street!)Just when you think you've seen it all, you inevitably see something weird. I was sent a link to a Facebook group called...
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The Bicycle and the Bush - Man and Machine in Rural Australia
I'm reading an amazing book at the moment, after a correspondence with a reader.. It's called The Bicycle and the Bush - Man and Machine in Rural Australia. The author is Jim FitzpatrickBooks about the...
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Why Do We Keep Expanding the Infrastructure For Cars in Our Cities?
In Copenhagen we like to be proud of cycling. The municipality even claims to be a city of bikes. For good reason too, neither our royal family, nor anything else consistently promotes Copenhagen as...
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Repeal Helmet Laws to Boost Cycling
A new paper is out from Prof. Chris Rissell at the Sydney School of Public Health at the U of Sydney. Repealing Australia's archaeic helmet laws, and following the example of Israel and Mexico City -...
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Don't Forget Japan
For all the talk of Denmark and the Netherlands, many German cities and the rising stars of Bicycle Culture 2.0 like France, Japan is so often left out of the equation.It is quite amazing to me how...
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Greenland Bicycle Culture
A friend of ours, Theis, is in Greenland at the moment on a film shoot. He took this photo of a citizen in Nanortalik on his Christiania cargo bike. It was only a balmy -10 C at the time but getting...
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World's Most Northernly Bike Lane
In the previous post we started the search for the northernmost cargo bike in the world. One of our readers, Stefan, led us to another northern pearl.Is this the world's northernmost separated bicycle...
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World's Most Northernly Cargo Bike
Vis World's Most Northernly Cargo Bikes på et større kortPerhaps because we are snowballing towards winter we are focusing on northern climes at the moment here on the blog. We also have cargo bikes on...
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Danish Cycling Pioneers: Carl Georg Rasmussen
At long last, here is the first film in the series of Danish Cycling Pioneers, complete with subtitles. A portrait of Carl Georg Rasmussen, inventor of the Leitra - the first velomobile of the modern...
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I Got My Bike Back!
No, it wasn't my Bullitt, unfortunately. But two weeks before the Bullitt got stolen, my other bike - pictured above - was nicked. It's a 1955 Swedish Crescent. Bloody irritating. Vintage bicycles are...
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Copenhagen Christmas Tree Transport
Getting close to Jul here in Copenhagen. Christmas tree sellers are occupying squares all around the city. Many people use their bicycles to get the tree home.Here's a collection of the shots we have...
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Car Industry Strikes Back - Chevrolet Colombia
Welcome to the next installment of the Car Industry Strikes Back series. On today's programme, we'll be travelling to Colombia, where Chevrolet desperately tries to reverse the tide of demotorisation...
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The Speed of Travel
Personally I think speed limits are too high, too dangerous, for me to drive a car. I have recently chosen not to drive a car before the city lowers the speed limits to 30 km/h, and have cut up my...
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Minority Report at US Border
A very good friend of mine sent me this description of a journey he took from Vancouver to Seattle. He had to clear US Customs and Immigration at the train station in Vancouver, before boarding the...
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Bike - Not As Dirty
Hot off the YouTube. Fantastic, simple activism from Brazil. The stencil reads, simply, "Bike - not as dirty".348 hits on YouTube as I write this. Let's make this viral.Thanks to Henrik for the...
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