THE CITY BIKE AND COPENHAGEN

The city bikes in Copenhagen are world famous. When you tour the city you notice, that especially tourists love riding the city bikes. Some even regard them as the major tourist attraction of Copenhagen.

But don't get surprised, if you see an officially looking clerk on a city bike on his way to the office. The copenhageners themselves do sometimes use "bycyklen" as a quick alternative to cars, busses and taxis, when they want to get around in City.

The city bikes are Copenhagen! This is emphasized by the fact, that a city bike was the official gift from The City of Copenhagen to the American president, when he visited Copenhagen in 1997. Bill Clinton recieved a specially designed city bike called "City Bike One".

The city bikes are also a story about our town. They tell you that Copenhagen City is a little big green (horizontal!) town, in which you easily get around. The cool yet funny design of the city bikes illustrates our playing approach to city-life.

City bikes give job-training
"Bycykelservice" maintains the city bikes. "Bycykelservice" is a departement in the rehabilitation agency of Copenhagen. It trains around 30 rehabilitees. During a 6 month-training program the rehabilitee qualifies for a job on normal conditions. The program is a succes. Around 80% of the rehabilitees get a job afterwards, mainly as lorrydrivers or bicycle repairers.

Environmental transportation
To encourage even more citizens to use their bicycle for transportation, The City of Copenhagen systematically expands the net of bicycle lanes and routes. Hence, you can get faster around in City by bicycle than by car or bus!

We see the city bikes as a positive, dynamic supplement to this traffic structure. The city bikes highlight the status of Copenhagen as one of the leading bicycle-cities in the world!