19 February 2009
Copenhagen Winter Cycling
Copenhagenize.com - Winter Cycling from Colville Andersen on Vimeo.
Scenes from a cycling life in Copenhagen during the winter. Featuring some of the 400,000 citizens who choose the bicycle throughout the winter.
Typically, after I edited this and put it up onto Vimeo, it REALLY started snowing. I'll do a redux at some point with the new footage.
There are a couple of shots of small tractors clearing and salting the bike lanes. When it snows heavier, they are recruited and assist the exisiting bike lane snowploughs.
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Love it!
What did you film it with - the low frame rate is great on this film, and I was wondering if it came from the camera, or you've created it in editing.
thanks. it's a sony HD camera.
Where are the ski goggles?
on the ski slopes :-)
The guy turning the corner between 2:54 and 2:59 brought back fond memories of cyclists in the Netherlands with that curious forward-backward, side to side bobbing motion they make on the bigger, older one speed bikes. There are a couple of others doing that in this clip, but not as much as that typical Dutch cyclist's body movement.
BTW, I have to ask: are there any Winther bikes in there? ;-)
Thank you for sharing this. The mood is so bleak here in America at the moment that it's heartening just to hear a happy pop song and see people out enjoying themselves.
Again, thanks for your efforts.
Hi, great movie, thanks :)
Do you have any advice on where I might find statistics about how many people cycle in Copenhagen during winter (or the source of the 400,000 figure you mentioned?) I'm doing a school assignment on cycling in the snow. Thanks!
Thanks, all.
Gemma, the source is the City of Copenhagen. 500,000 cyclists cycle each day in Copenhagen. 36% of the population.
During the winter, 80% of them continue to ride.
Your source, if you need to quote it, is Copenhagenize.com.
Kiwehtin said: "I have to ask: are there any Winther bikes in there? ;-)"
I've seen several Winthers around Copenhagen, and I usually encounter them on my morning commute from Island's Brygge (in the east) to near Nørrboro Station. Mostly they are just getting in my way because I ride a recumbent trike, and tend to be one of the faster riders on that route (Thank goodness for the new wider cycle-path crossing the little lakes on Nørrebrogade/Dronning Louises Bro).
But when they are not slowing the traffic down, Winthers are decent people-movers. :)
-Jimm (http://thedigitalmouse-blogspot.com <- trike blog)
hi! great video of course, but nobody ask about music! ;) do anybody know name of this band ? thanks.
it just be bo kaspers orchestra from sweden.
Could You tell me name of song please, from sweden ?:) i was listen and i thought it's french language
långsomt. it means slowly.
Winter Copenhagen, very nice video thank you!
http://bit.ly/daP7vE
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