Copenhagen cycle recommendations?

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....

Pistanator 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]

aside from meeting the girl of my dreams and having to come home and tell the boy of my dreams that i am sorry, what else is good to do in Copenhagen?

the climate camp thing is on but i can't go on principle (ryanair...oops)
looking forward to a bit of leisurely cycling........
recommendations for things to do / places to see appreciated :)

Copenhagen is made of awesome and win. But lends a whole new meaning to 'a bit pricey'.

I worked there for 6 months this year. Top tips are:

• The Nørrebro Bryghus. Really good beer. And the food's pretty good too.
  
• Noma. I reckon it's better than the Fat Duck. But it will put a dent in your wallet.
  
• The cycling is good everywhere. Just get out there. Although it'll be wet and dark a lot of the time.
  
• Christiana is nice once you get past Pusherstreet, which is just like Camden. It's really green and leafy and quiet.
  
• Go to the newsagent and get a box of Spunk.
  
• Nyhavn is beautiful and full of nice cobbled streets and cafes.
  
• Lades, just off Strøget, has live music every night and is pleasantly dingy.
  
• Sticks and Sushi is good, if you like westernised sushi.
  

• trackbike shop in Ryesgade, right between Østerbro and Nørrebro
  
• pretty lively (mess) scene, can be distinguished from hipsters by style and speed, check fixie-king.dk for latest updates
  
• Ballerup Superarena, World Cup Track Cycling and stuff
  
• Coffee Collective
  
• Folketshus (in Nørrebro)
  
• Loppen/Lades/Ungdomshuset << all for good music shows
  
• ...
  

Ungdomshuset << all for good music shows

• ...
  

no more, sadly

I was in Copenhagen this weekend and I have seen lots of bikes of course but the state of the drivetrains was shocking: Even the newish, epensive bikes had Tango-coloured chains. What's up with that? Is chain lube illegal or something? Harsh sea climate?

It's a very salty environment. Chains don't last long.

And most people don't spend time maintaining their bikes - it's a tool, not a jewel.

It's because the average copenhagenist don't know shit about bikes...

Also, it's because they go totally crazy with the salt this winter..

This should give you a taster of what to look for

http://www.flickr.com/photos/run_time/3038072960/

I'm going there in May for a week. I've been before, but never long enough to justify bringing or hiring a bike.

This time I would like to bring my bike, but for various reasons that's not going to be possible this time, so I was wondering if anyone knows a good place to hire a bike. A fixie would be great, but I guess that's unlikely.

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

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

you said it! gotta love the northern girls.

I'm going there in May for a week. I've been before, but never long enough to justify bringing or hiring a bike.

This time I would like to bring my bike, but for various reasons that's not going to be possible this time, so I was wondering if anyone knows a good place to hire a bike. A fixie would be great, but I guess that's unlikely.

Well I got a hire bike, just a normal danish city bike.

I hated cycling there though, I hate not being able to cycle on the roads, and everyone cycles at 2 mph.

It looks like the fixed gear scene has exploded there, last year I saw a handful the entire time I was there, this time I saw 20 on the first evening.

I also went to the track bike shop on the Rantzausgade. They had a good selection, though 50% of it was just BLB components.

Next year I will bring my bike for sure, even with the annoying cycle lanes.

John H;
I'm a Copenhagen'er.

You should bring your bike.. And actually I think you are allowed to cycle on the roads if you go fast enough.. I don't find it being much of a problem overtaking the slower cyclists, apart from rush hour where it can be a bit of a pain, I just tend to select other roads with less traffic.

Anyway's you can just keep a watchfull eye on cops, and if you don't see any ride like a mad man like the rest of us do :)

Places to go if you wan't to meet up with non-hipster trackbike people are the polocourt at Nørrebro Parken and the polocourt at Nørrebrohallen (both should show up on google maps). In the summer time the polo crowd often play from around 16pm to 20pm.

TrackBikeShop does seem to have adjusted their selection to what hipsters buy, last time I was there just to get a cheap headset for my Surly I had to wait in line for like 10 minutes.. annoying ;)

Places to go if you wan't to meet up with non-hipster trackbike people are the polocourt at Nørrebro Parken and the polocourt at Nørrebrohallen (both should show up on google maps). In the summer time the polo crowd often play from around 16pm to 20pm.

Yeah, I was staying in Nørrebro, but didn't get down to the park, which was a bit weak. Next time.

just got back from copenhagen, spent ages finding the track bike shop but didn't know it had moved, didn't have time to go to the new one.

loads of fixed gear bikes though! only one orange aerospoke. lots of fixie looking bikes too, that turned out to be brakeless with coaster brake.

have to say though, cycling there looked like an absolute nightmare!

have to say though, cycling there looked like an absolute nightmare!

It is isn't it? let just says it's look more like an organised chao, everything's too close for comfort, etc. but once you get used to the mix of peds and bicycle, it become easy.