The Life-Sized City Blog

Copenhagenize is pleased to be involved in the creation and design of a bike event that will take place in conjunction with the Roskilde Festival and Roskilde Municipality on June 26th, 2011. Rock Ur Bike will take place on Sunday, June 26th. Roskilde Festival starts on June 30th but the camping areas open on June 25th and warm up music starts on the Sunday, to entertain the tens of thousands of festival-goers. It is a simple celebration of the bicycle as an integral part of society. As the poster says, "Pimp your bike and ride show-off through the city!". The ride is inspired by the crazy bike goodness at Burning Man festival in the USA. Roskilde Festival, since its inception in 1971 , has become one of Europe's largest music festivals, with 80,000 people taking part, not to mention over 20,000 volunteers. The City of Roskilde is a bit older. A thousand years older, give or take. This year the city has a bicycle campaign to promote cycling called Roskilde ...

Ole's new Batavus bicycle. The whole day at the recent TEDx Copenhagen event was brilliant. I was especially thrilled that so many good people came up to me after my own talk and relayed positive feedback. It was quite humbling and inspiring. I'll have a hard time forgetting one man in particular. His name is Ole. There is an old children's song in Danish called Oles Ny Autobil / Ole's New Autocar. Ole's new autocar drives 8 miles in an hour (the old Scandinavian mile is 10 km) Ole said he enjoyed the talk but then he revealed that Copenhagenize and Cycle Chic are the direct reason that he and his family sold their Volvo station wagon. These blogs have generated an incredible amount of positive feedback over the years and it is especially when I'm giving talks abroad that I get fantastic face-to-face experiences with readers. For some reason, Ole's revelation was more moving and touching. Perhaps because I was on my home turf in Copenhage...

Not every day we get to blog about Estonian music, but here's a brilliant music video from August Hunt , featuring bicycles, bicycles and more bicycles. Wonderfully filmed.