If it’s good enough for royalty, it’s good enough for us.
‘Our’ Princess Mary of Denmark and mother of four rides a Danish Nihola cargo bike riding across the palace square outside Amalienborg, where the royals live in Copenhagen. The Crown Prince of Denmark also uses the bike to take the children to school.
This is just too, too awesome.
via Copenhagenize
Danish model Caroline Brasch Nielsen poses outside Copenhagen City Hall with her bright red bike during Copenhagen Fashion Week.
via Altamira
Trust the Danes to arrive in style on bikes to meet the Queen.
Denmark’s first ever female prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt and ministers from the Liberal party decided to arrive at the Queen’s residence on Velorbis Victoria Classic ladies and Velorbis Churchill Classic gents bicycles.
You can watch the video here (it’s in Danish).
The Velorbis bicycles are part of a large Velorbis bicycle fleet available for politicians to use for getting to and from meetings at various locations in central Copenhagen. The new government has announced that it will integrate green policies as a main element of their administration in order to make Copenhagen even more bicycle friendly. We can’t wait to see what they come up with!
Copenhagen-based Baisikeli collects discarded bikes from Denmark to help the disadvantaged both in Africa and at home.
When the bikes are sent to Africa, they create work, education and transportation. The group has set up projects in Ghana, Sierra Leone and Tanzania, and it ships bicycles to workshops it has established there to train local people in bicycle repair.
The bikes are then sold to locals —offering a better-quality, lower-priced alternative to the bicycles commonly available—while others are converted into bicycles that can serve as local ambulances and cargo bikes.
Profits from the fixed-up bikes that get sold are invested in local projects, while a portion is put back into developing the workshops. In the future the group hopes to offer local mechanics micro-loans so they can start their own bike businesses, as well as to develop a Fair Trade Baisikeli bike that will be built in Africa and returned to Denmark for rental to tourists.
Unemployed people who have been out of a job for three years or more do the handling of the bikes in Denmark.
This video illustrates the project’s goals.
Melbourne gets its own Cycle Chic day-of-the-week with its first Cycle Chic Friday!
From 5pm this Friday 23 July, Melbourne’s centre of Danish culture, commerce and cuisine, Denmark House (428 Little Bourke Street), will be hosting a free cycle chic gathering presided by the Danish filmmaker, photographer and urban mobility expert Mikael Colville-Andersen, who’s in town at the invitation of State of Design, Victoria’s annual design festival.
Many of you will know Mikael through the bicycle blogs Cycle Chic and Copenhagenize and at Denmark House he will be discussing how other cities can be inspired by the Copenhagen bicycling experience, by re-establishing the bicycle as an accepted and respected mode of every day transport.
So come to Denmark House on your bicycle, dressed in your finest cycle chic attire, and meet other like-minded folks. Make sure you bring your camera too, as there will be lots of opportunities to get inspired and to submit your images to Denmark House via email, Twitter or Facebook.
Naturally, we’ll be there with our camera and our finest cycling style. We’re also hoping to have a few of our most popular items on display at Denmark House that night, so please come and say hi and ask us any questions about the products that you may have.
Reservations are encouraged for Cycle Chic Friday – phone 03 9600 4477 or email office@denmarkhouse.com.au.
This fabulous 3-minute video has been going around the blogosphere but in case you’ve missed it, it is a fabulous conglomeration of snapshots and interviews with cycle chic bloggers from all around the world. It really shows how easy, useful and stylish it is to ride a bike!
