Danish bicycles: the cargo bikes and city bikes to know
Copenhagen is one of the most cycled cities in the world: 62 percent of its people ride to work, school or university. The city is also home to some twenty companies that design and sell bicycles, most of them the cargo bikes Copenhagen is known for, alongside design-led city bikes.
Cargo bikes
Cargo bikes and family bikes designed in Denmark.
Christiania Bikes The Copenhagen cargo tricycle with a box in front, first built at the Christiania smithy in 1984 and now made on Bornholm.
Larry vs Harry The Copenhagen company behind the Bullitt, a light two-wheeled front-loading cargo bike first shown in 2008.
Butchers & Bicycles A Danish maker of three-wheeled cargo bikes that lean into corners like a two-wheeler, named after Copenhagen's meatpacking district.
OMNIUM A Copenhagen maker of light, fast cargo bikes, first drawn by a bike messenger for courier work.
Nihola A Danish maker of three-wheeled cargo bikes whose front wheels steer on their own while the box stays fixed, built in its own factory west of Copenhagen.
City bikes
City and touring bicycles from Danish makers.
