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  1. Roibeard
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    We had a family expedition to Denmark (and a little bit of Sweden) this summer, cycling 300+ miles over three weeks or so, trains picking up the rest of the travelling.

    I echo the sentiment of ibikelondon - Copenhagen really does look like Colville-Andersen's photographs [1]!

    http://ibikelondon.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/this-is-what-100-years-of-building.html

    We didn't see the headline infrastructure in the Streetfilms video linked below, but the rest was fantastic.

    http://www.copenhagenize.com/2014/08/the-green-waves-of-copenhagen.html

    I'll post a bit more in due course, should folk be interested...

    Robert

    [1] During a heat wave...

    Posted 9 years ago #

  2. Roibeard
    Member

    PS - To my surprise, and despite Colville-Andersen's assertion that bicycles are as anonymous and unnoticed as vacuum cleaners, the Pino caused a minor stir on a summer Saturday evening in Copenhagen. Comments, photographs, waves and smiles...

    Definitely not the bike to be anonymous, even in a city of bikes, including "odd" ones (cargo bicycles, child carrying trikes, etc).

    That said, I only spotted a couple of tandems in Denmark, one usual one, and one child-front tandem (like, and possibly actually, the Onderwater family tandem).

    Recumbent spots consisted of just two - two Leitra trikes together south of Helsingor, one with full fairing, the other bare. I didn't realise that these were local.

    I was aware of other Danish bike manufacturers and did bring a souvenir back from Copenhagen...

    Robert

    Posted 9 years ago #

  3. LaidBack
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    Sounds like an ambitious trip.... how did you get to Denmark? Via Harwich?

    Further away now that ferries from Newcastle only go to NL. When we did it you could go to Gothenburg direct which meant a short train journey and a short pedal out along the Tyne path to Royal Quays.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  4. DaveC
    Member

    So Newcastle to Esberg now stopped as well as Newcastle to Bergen? Sad. :O(

    Posted 9 years ago #

  5. Roibeard
    Member

    @Laidback - it ended up being ambitious! We ended up covering >350 miles in 23 days, with only two (consecutive) days off. Averaged ~17 miles per day, with a few in the 25-30 mile range. One of these was just charging around Copenhagen (unladen) on a Sunday. We camped near the outer ring road, so simply nipping in and out to the centre added up.

    Harwich-Esbjerg was the route, which DFDS are discontinuing shortly (end of September). I did look at their freight routes (Immingham to Esbjerg/Immingham to Gothenburg) however you can only travel on this on stand by (i.e. turn up and get on only if there is space), and they cost twice the price of the Harwich route.

    A successor on the Harwich route is being proposed from next spring:

    http://www.reginaline.dk/

    Robert

    Posted 9 years ago #

  6. Roibeard
    Member

    The most useful site we found for planning purposes was:

    http://www.cycletourer.co.uk/cycletouring/denmark.shtml

    Highly recommended!

    Robert

    Posted 9 years ago #

  7. SRD
    Moderator

    Fascinating stuff Roibeard. very envious.

    on recent trips to both sweden and denmark, I've likewise been struck by the lack of 'unusual' bikes other than cargobikes/trikes.

    Posted 9 years ago #

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