May 29, 2007 5
Bicycles in Copenhagen
As some of you know, Denmark is a pretty flat country. Whereas many think that Himmelbjerget is Denmark’s tallest “mountain”, but in fact it is Ydinge Skovhøj that is the tallest place in Denmark with its 172.5 meters / 565 feet of majestic height. Actually, there has been quite a debate on what point in Denmark is the tallest.
Anyway, with Denmark being this flat, it is a country made for bicycling, and the city of Copenhagen now has an explicit goal of making the city the world’s greatest bicycle city before 2015. Here is a link to their campaign site (in Danish).
The last months, I have been borrowing a friend’s bicycle, and I have taken quite a few trips around Copenhagen. Whereas I never used a bicycle in Bergen or Oslo, it seems so natural here, and it is very convenient.
Here is a video I took yesterday, which I present unedited (because my Sony Vegas application decides to crash every time I load a movie file into it :/). It is 15 minutes long, and gives a pretty good impression of how it is to bicycle from Nørrebro to Nørreport on a morning. The trip was taken about 9 AM.
Did you notice the “69″ tags on the yellow wall (@ 5:48 min)? 69 signifies the now abolished youth house, which was at Jagtvej 69.