The Life-Sized City Blog

Peter contacted us last year with this song that he had written and recorded called I Bike CPH. Inspired by Copenhagen's bicycle culture and the glorious bicycle traffic that he rides in every day. He has now put it on YouTube. Brilliant. It's in Danish but we've translated the lyrics (roughly, for context) below. Thanks, Peter! I cross The Lakes, I know I'm just a statistic We bust the myth that there are only egos in the traffic Don't have any rosy dreams of travelling away I'm staying in Copenhagen - 'cause I Bike CPH Push hard on the pedals, the energy is within me Overtake pensioners, but there is room for them, too. Chill out, from the moment the sun goes to work Roll out into the nightlife, where everyone wobbles piss drunk Down Nørrebrogade and everyone can see a flock of iron horses parked outside Café Louise Everyone is in the saddle, even the elected and the well-paid Your snobby aunt and snotty kids Some take up too much space o...

My friend Marie and I were inspired to write a letter a couple of years ago to the City of Copenhagen with a long list of good ideas that Copenhagen should consider in order to cater more to cyclists and brand cycling better. As fate would have it, Marie is now working at the City's Bicycle Office and I'm a senior consultant but one of those ideas was inspired by a photo sent to me by David Hembrow in Holland. David writes the A View from the Cycle Path blog - a must read. Anyway, garbage bins for cyclists. I blogged about it a year and a half ago . Raised up and tilted towards the cyclists, offering them a better hit ratio. I recieved this photo from the Bicycle Office the other day. There are right now a handful of prototypes of a tilted garbage bin along some routes aimed at cyclists who have problems aiming. Brilliant stuff although to be honest, I think this prototype design needs some improvements. It could be mistaken for a garbage bin that was bumped by a car and bent....