Copenhagen icon gaining global foothold
Entrepreneurs are discovering markets for the iconic bicycles in the US and UK, though their cost and eccentricity factor are hard to overcome
Photo: Peter Stanners
Cities across the world are looking to Copenhagen for inspiration on how to get their inhabitants out of cars and onto bikes – so much so that a new term has been coined for the trend, ‘Copenhagenisation’.
But even in cities that actively encourage cycling, the prevalence of self-powered transport is still mostly limited to the conventional two-wheeled variety. Cargo bikes, such as the Christiania, Trio or Nihola, are still a rarity outside Copenhagen despite offering a practical and relatively cheap
