Cargo Bikes in Copenhagen

Cargo bikes are very popular in Denmark. We met the first and the latest cargo bike producers. Join the joyride on the Danish cargo bikes.

in Copenhagen we see more and more cargo bikes on the streets in fact uh now it’s 25% of the families with with two kids or more they have a they have a cargo bike again we see people choosing uh the bicycle because it’s the easiest and fastest way of getting around we here in christania were the first who made a bike in this size ready for modern traffic and that’s the point and that’s why it became a success and uh after that yes uh later everybody started to make new types of that and make copies of that so you now see I I don’t know how many perhaps 20 different products but this is still the origin original Christiania bike it’s not a cheap thing to go out and buy in fact the cargo bike costs the same as a as a used car so um so again we see people choosing uh the bicycle because it’s the easiest and fastest way of getting around not because it’s a especially cheap uh mean of Transport um and definitely the cargo bike when it comes to trans supporting kids or groceries is is by far the uh the easiest way of getting around especially in the the inner parts of Copenhagen but also in the suburbs we see more and more cargo bikes in 2009 Larry versus Harry was founded our first product was the bullet cargo bike we claim that it’s the fastest in the world Our intention with the bullet was to build a cargo bike that could compete with a car modern traffic is car traffic and if you want to introduce a cargo bike you need to offer the same as a car offers copenhageners always been in love with their bicycle they always been in love with the idea of biking you can pass through traffic easily uh the parking is easy and especially you park just in front of the door where you want to go in K is a small town if you want to get from A to B the bike is the fastest alternative so why promoting cycling um there are two reasons why Copenhagen is doing it one is the cost benefit perspective seen from the city’s point of view it’s simply a very uh cheap way of creating good transport of a lot of people in a city like Copenhagen so in that way you can say that investing in cycling infrastructure in fact also makes it possible to invest in all the other things you want in a big City libraries uh kits and whatever and the second reason is that for the copenhageners good um conditions for cycling simply is is very very appreciated they very much enjoy the chance of getting quickly and easy from A to B on a bicycle