Hi All,

Spending the holiday period in Copenhagen and I was wondering if anyone knows of some good cycle shops? I've been googling but not turned much up yet.

Cheers,

Ben

there are about four hundred of cycle shops in copenhagen so they're pretty easy to come by. i took my own bike so don't know much about hiring a bike if that's what you need.

the most helpful shop i found was quite small but stocked some nice road bikes and a small selection of fixie track bikes. had plenty of spares and not too expensive. i can't remember what it's called, but it's on vesterbrogade right down near the end on the left. you have to pass a couple of other bike shops to get there. (past tivoli gardens and keep going out of the centre. if you go up a hill and past the zoo, you've gone too far. if you do get past the zoo, turn left at the first junction and down the hill there's a couple more shops about a mile down there too.)

it takes a while to get used to cycling a lot more slowly and stopping at lights - it's a very relaxed place to cycle!

ye denmark is nowhere as hardboiled a cycling place as london, especially after recent crackdowns on rogue cyclists, so if you're cycling around it would be wise to obey the lights etc.

don't forget to keep right (overtake on the left,) use hand signals (raise you're right hand to indicate that you're stopping) and give way to people getting on and off busses. it's the most cycle friendly city in the world but it's nice to head out - going north up the coast and then a big loop inland, back to copenhagen is a nice little ride.

I'm actually staying up the coast towards (but not as far as) Helsingor, so it was more for shop ogling than bike hiring. Very few fixies in evidence in town yesterday, might be 'cos a lot of businesses are still on slow time, saw one fixed courier and a couple of locked up conversions, 1 peugot and 1 puch. Most of the 1,000,000 bikes I saw were run of the mill commuter cycles (lots of dynamos and enclosed gears) or elderly hacks, that being said, the weather's shite.

Bike shop wise, I'm still hunting for places to go perv, a few sites/shops that I've found online so far:

http://www.pedersen-bike.dk/

http://copenhagengirlsonbikes.blogspot.com/

http://fixie-king.dk/oscommerce2/catalog/index.php

LInks page I haven't had time to trawl yet:

http://www.pedersen-bike.dk/links.htm

Anyway, see y'all soon, Godt Nytaar as they say.

Copenhagen is ace! More bikes there than Amsterdam but they all ride silly bikes. Hot, hot chicks though....

Thats what I thought, which is why (lucky me) I married one!

:)

Many years ago I was told a joke about being in DK, it was very long, but the abbreviated version goes:

You are sitting in a restaurant having dinner with the most beautiful girl you have ever met, when the door opens and in walks the most beautiful girl you have ever seen, so you leave girl number 1 and join girl number 2, things are going well when the door opens and in walks the most beautiful girl you have ever seen, etc. etc.

The first time I ever went to Copenhagen was to meet up with an ex-girlfriend of mine.
As I waited around at the main train terminal for her to pick me up, I swear to gods I must have fallen in love at least a dozen times in five minutes.

It was also that fated trip that layed the first kernels of my now bicycular infatuation:
A courier there was building his new bike, and he was thinking of using just one gear. "Crazy," said I...

Danish birds = marriage material. FACT!

Danish girls = nutters.
Lovely, but mad as hatters.

Now that's a fact. [/sob story]