UPDATE.
Typical. Write a blog post and then two bikes with christmas trees roll past your window. So here's an update.
Above: Sorte Jernhest cargo bike, complete with tree and kid wearing an elf hat heading home in the evening. Fantastic.
This lady rolled past my window pulling her tree on a trailer.
Getting close to Jul here in Copenhagen. Christmas tree sellers are occupying squares all around the city. Many people use their bicycles to get the tree home.
Here's a collection of the shots we have of people moving their trees home by bike.
This lady had just bought a jule tree and the seller was helping her strap it to her bicycle. It took some work and discussion but they finally succeeded. She didn't have far to go, so she walked her bike with the tree attached.
Here are some more photos from the archives:
This gent was followed by two kids and his wife on bikes behind him on the cycle track. Heading home with the family tree.
You don't see many bicycle trailers in Copenhagen, but sometimes they do come in handy.
Here's me and the kids a couple of years ago when we had a Longjohn to get around.
It was a squeeze, but the kids love a squeeze. They had a ball.
Smaller trees need no more than a bicycle to transport them.
Ditto.
11 comments:
At least one advantage of bad bike path clearance here in Berlin: We were able to transport our jule trae home by bike + sledge ;-)
Merry Christmas, Mikael (& Felix!)
Merry Christmas,Copenhagenize.com! from Japan.
Merry Chritmas..
I think Copenhagen is really trying very hard to avoid cars and motor bikes totally. And we must appreciate it, as they are reducing carbon and spreading go green Christmas. I am looking forward for this blog.
Moral dilemna for the environmentally concerned: to what degree is annual mass dendricide redeemed by using bicycles to dispose of the bodies? How does the CO2 emission saved on the one balance against the CO2 capture forfeited by the other?
(...But there we are: if God didn't mean us to cut down trees, why did he make them out of wood?)
Glad jul og godt nyttår, Mikael
Greetings from Finland. It's first Christmas I can try this too - with our new cargobike. Happy Christmas!
Great. I love to see bicycles being used as utility vehicles. It's amazing what you can carry out them. What a nice seasonal post. Have a great Christmas.
Same as in Amsterdam:
http://schlijper.nl/111207-08-haarlemmersluis.photo
where fresh supplies are ferried in by boat:
http://schlijper.nl/111207-15-prinsengracht-kerstboomboot.photo
(Thomas Schlijper documents everyday life in Amsterdam and other cities, and often shows remarkable traffic situations)
.................... nice ^_^v ................
This reminds me of my Polish grandfather, who strapped the tree to his back and rode it home. He did this every year until his last Christmas. He was over ninety at that time.
What do you do in Copenhagen when your tree is ready to leave your apartment? Just moved here and am wondering what to do with our lovely, though dead tree . . .
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