Bicycles in Copenhagen

Posted by raymond on May 29, 2007

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.


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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.

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  1. missb Wed, 30 May 2007 21:28:56 PDT

    Amazing! Oh, I wish New York had lanes for bikes on every avenue and street (we don’t). I also wish New York was more flat (it isn’t). What a wild thing to see a traffic jam of bicycles! And the poster of people on bicycles, too! And crammed parking lots of bicycles! Amazing.

  2. Michael Meiser Thu, 31 May 2007 06:30:19 PDT

    I tried to comment on the post “settled” but comments were closed.

    I like the bike video.

    Looks like Dave Winer was very recently, or is currently in copenhagen

    http://mefeedia.com/entry/2754649/

  3. Andreas Haugstrup Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:13:11 PDT

    Dave Winer was in town for the reboot conference. Here he is captured in his own irony (conversation? With 400 people? No problem): http://www.23hq.com/andreas/photo/2008244

  4. Sara Henriksen Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:27:40 PDT

    Hei Raymond.
    Hvordan går det? Jeg håper du tar deg en tur til Bergen snart. Sitter akkurat nå på din faste plass på Venstre-kontoret og arbeider med valgkamp.

    Jeg lurte på om du tror det er mulig for oss i BUV å “låne” den sykkel-logoen til Køben og transformere den til en UV/Bergens-logo?

  5. taxiplasm Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:08:52 PDT

    you’ve actually inspired me to do entire videos upside-down.

    -taxiplasm

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