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Copenhagen Blue
Copenhagenize.com - Copenhagen Bike Culture Blog | November 4th 2008 by Zakkaliciousness
This is a busy intersection in Copenhagen. It has recently undergone a re-think, a re-working and a re-structuring. After all that, it was time to repaint the bike lanes. The Copenhagen Blue lanes that remind motorists, and cyclists, that they are cr read more
cooperation
unrelenting ambiguity | October 20th 2008 by Deb
Something happened on the way home from work today that had me thinking about the word “share” versus “cooperate”. Very often when you see the bike route signs, there will also be something that says “share the roadR read more
did I win?
unrelenting ambiguity | October 8th 2008 by Deb
As I was pedaling home, on one of the bigger roads with bike lanes, there were these two men on the sidewalk wearing safety (bright yellow with reflective tape) vests and holding clipboards. My first thought was that they were trying to get signatu read more
Dots and Bikes and Bondam
Copenhagenize.com - Copenhagen Bike Culture Blog | September 30th 2008 by Zakkaliciousness
One of the most talked about intiatives in Copenhagen is now underway. Nørrebrogade is a main street running through a densely populated neighbourhood and it has had problems thriving for many years. Many of the side streets are lovely, cosy shoppin read more
Copenthings
Copenhagenize.com - Copenhagen Bike Culture Blog | September 4th 2008 by Zakkaliciousness
A famous [locally] wall mural on Nørrebrogade featuring that iconic figure of a cycling girl. Appropriately, this is the street that will be closed off to through traffic in order to A. create a more liveable area and B. accomodate more bikes and bu read more
Copenhagenizing Here and There
Copenhagenize.com - Copenhagen Bike Culture Blog | September 2nd 2008 by Zakkaliciousness
Our friend and fashion blogger Raquel from Gratis Total in Spain is also a prolific bike culture correspondant for Copenhagenize.com. Whenever she travels around Spain she photographs the various facilities. She took this photo of a "Copenhagen lane" read more
Traffic Nightmare from Bike Lanes on Eastern Avenue
The Mildly Annoyed Canadian | July 22nd 2008
You'd think I'd learn my lesson about vacations by now. I enjoyed 2 weeks at a lovely cottage in northern Quebec (near Maniwaki) only to return to a flooded basement and more stupidity from the city - both happened to me when I went on vacation in th read more
117 Safer Intersections in Copenhagen
Copenhagenize.com - Copenhagen Bike Culture Blog | July 19th 2008 by Zakkaliciousness
The City of Copenhagen announced yesterday that 117 intersections throughout the city will be altered so that the stop line for cars and trucks will be pulled back by a minimum of 5 metres.Vechicles turning right and hitting bikes is the most common read more
Wheelchairin’ in the Bike Lane
Leaving Treadmarkz Across the Universe | July 5th 2008 by Leaving Treadmarkz Across the Universe
by Treadmarkz It strikes me as really dumb that it is illegal for people on bicycles to ride on the sidewalk. They are required to ride down on the street in the “bike lane”. Right next to where the traffic is zooming by! Two-ton chunks read more
Copenhagen Lanes Celebrate 25 Years
Copenhagenize.com - Copenhagen Bike Culture Blog | June 5th 2008 by Zakkaliciousness
It's my party and I'll ride if I want to. Next time you have a glass of something nice in your hand, raise a toast to Copenhagen.This year - on 04 June 2008 - we can celebrate 25 years of 'Copenhagen bike lanes', or "real" bike lanes as they're often read more
The Bike Counter
Copenhagenize.com - Copenhagen Bike Culture Blog | June 4th 2008 by Zakkaliciousness
Along the new Green Path [grønne sti] that slices diagonally across Copenhagen and Frederiksberg - a kind of motorway for bikes - the City of Frederiksberg has set up a 'Cykelbarometer' or Bike Counter.It counts the number of cyclists that ride past read more
Commute
Copenhagenize.com - Copenhagen Bike Culture Blog | May 25th 2008 by Zakkaliciousness
A handful of the 30,000 daily cyclists on this stretch of bike lane.Copehagenize the planet. read more
How To Drop Kids Off at School in a Bike Culture
Copenhagenize.com - Copenhagen Bike Culture Blog | April 11th 2008 by Zakkaliciousness
My mate David in the Netherlands has this wonderful little video on youtube, showing how people take their kids to school in a bike culture.Just an average morning at an average school in an average Dutch town. It could be Denmark if you squint your read more
I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike
No More Fat Dad | April 7th 2008 by nomorefatdad
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Spring Cleaning - Winter Cycling Photos
Copenhagenize.com - Copenhagen Bike Culture Blog | March 31st 2008 by Zakkaliciousness
Today was springlike in Copenhagen so I thought I'd clean up in the winter cycling photos. Erik from the cool Swedish site Ecoprofile posted these photos from the hilly city of Gothenburg. A bit of late-winter snow fell and the next morning the bikes read more
Two Wheel Revolution
AllYearGear | February 11th 2008 by Todd Scott
Thanks to metromode for writing about cycling in Metro Detroit. As I told my friends, I don’t normally ride in baggy hiking pants, but it had rained the night before and my cycling tights were still damp. I was wearing my Patagonia Windshie read more
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