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Cycle Fix For Mikael

Amsterdamize — Sat, 16 May 2009 09:33:08 +0000

Mikael

My good cycle chic friend Mikael and proprietor of Copenhagenize & Copenhagencyclechic dropped in yesterday evening for a quick stopover in Amsterdam before heading home.

After four days of talking bike culture at the international and very popular Velocity 2009 conference in Brussels (a city that desperately needs to do an infrastructure overhaul, to say the least), it was pretty clear he needed a fix.

No, that substance was not included, we left it to the accord of the sheer intoxicating beauty of hundreds of thousands of people on bicycles moving about in the city.

Henry from Workcycles provided his ride, I assumed the role of a non-structured tour guide and we used the limited amount of time as well as we could.

Of course we whipped out our photo cameras and I recorded a little video for prosperity with my mobile (warning: crappy quality).

Slow Bicycle Race – Copenhagenize vs Amsterdamize [Redux]

Amsterdamize — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:46:31 +0000

You (my loyal readers/viewers) will remember my trip to Copenhagen in November last year. Mikael and I shot quite a few photos, go see this, this, this, this, this, this & this to refresh your memory. :)

Since then there was one real loose end…the video of one of Mikael’s life long dreams: racing a real Amsterdammer.

Well, you guessed it, he finally got to edit it and put it up. I then inserted parts of my own footage, to cover all angles, so here’s my Redux of:

The World’s First Copenhagen Invitational Slow Bicycle Race. At the Slowodrome on the Copenhagen Harbour.

PS: As a guest, I did the right thing…

Riding With Marie

Amsterdamize — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:39:27 +0000

Yesterday morning I received an urgent e-mail from Mikael saying that Marie, his co-blogger and Copenhagen cycle fashionista in crime had taken a one day detour to Amsterdam on her EuRail trip through Europe. He asked me to meet up with her, knowing very well we’d have a ball.

And he was right, obviously. Marie is a sweetheart, great company and a hoot to ride around with. Naturally, I strategically whipped out my phone camera and recorded it all for digital eternity.

From my ‘Copenhagen Cycle Chic Meets Amsterdamize’ photoset:

Here’s what happened during our cycle-tour-and-talk moments of that splendid day. We also tried a quick live mobile tv broadcast from the upper terrace of The Blue Tea House in Vondelpark, talking to Mikael.

Don’t forget, you can see all of Amsterdamize Bicycle TV right here.

Marie traveled to Marseilles, France today. She reckoned she won’t be cycling much. I can only hope she does…for the sake of Marseilles :).