Did you know that 35% of Copenhagen's population - 550,000 people - ride their bike to work or school each day?
Today I added RSS feeds for two superb Danish bicycle blogs:
Cycleliciouness and its sister blog
CycleChic. The former focuses on the Copenhagen's bike culture and the latter focuses on the fashion of women and bikes. Very nice.
To the hills!
If we're debunking flat myths, we simply must take a trip to Switzerland. The city of Basel is built on the steep banks of the Rhine and yet 23% of journies are made by bike. And in Bern, where many roads have a gradient on the steep-o-meter of 7%, the percentage is 15%. In reality, there are not many situations which preclude the use of a bicycle.
Read
Debunking the Flat Country Myth to see that hills are not an impediment to cities having high rates of bicycle use. Neither latitude nor weather seem to be impediments either.
Comments
Danish Delight and Dutch Treat go hand in hand, sure. Copenhagen and Amsterdam are the Romulus and Remus of bike culture. But what baffles us is how the Dutch got branded so well in America! :-)
Oh well... we're working on it. Thanks for adding our RSS feeds. Go Seattle bike culture, go!
Your Danish/Dutch branding question is a good one (likely best illuminated over a few beers). Did someone say Heineken? Now if Bang & Olufsen were as big as Heineken, maybe we would be asking different questions. Like, "Where's my Carlsberg? I'm thirsty."
All I can say right now is, we are working on it.
I'm more partial to Danish anyway, having spent some of my favorite summers as a child on the beaches of northern Denmark (Hirtshals) and many a joyful moment at Legoland in Billund.