Cycling is Denmark’s national obsession. Kids ride their bikes to school, the elderly take theirs out for a spin to the shops and young businessmen and women cycle to the office in their suits and high heels. Cycling is much more than just a sport in Denmark; it is a major form of transportation and a way of life. Denmark is home to over 5000 kilometres of designated bike paths, which are well maintained and often cleared of snow before the roads. Trains have specially designed cars where you can bring your bike and businesses and schools have special parking areas designated for bikes.

This obsession with cycling is no accident. Denmark is blessed with the perfect landscape for cycling with its mostly flat topography and lack of big hills. In addition, Denmark prides itself on being an environmentally friendly country that embraces cycling not only as a healthy means of getting from one place to another, but as a form of green transport as well.

The World Famous Copenhagen City Bikes

City Bikes aims to share this Danish love of cycling with visitors to Copenhagen. The concept is simple. The bikes are available to anyone for a deposit of a 20 kroner coin. The bike is then yours to ride around the city for as long as you like before returning it to one of the many designated bike racks, at which time you get your deposit back. City Bikes has a stable of 2000 bikes at 110 locations throughout central Copenhagen.