Comments on: Hopenhagen or Carbonhagen, We’ll Still be Cycling Regardless

By: Best Road Bikes

Best Road Bikes — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 11:50:00 +0000

Wow this is one long interview. Good for all biking fanatics to read this!

By: Anders

Anders — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:14:52 +0000

Thanks for a great interview.

Love the new bike movement and I miss Denmark.

By: Jens

Jens — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:20:33 +0000

That Rob guy didn’t mention the study from the Norwegian Transport Economic Institute that shows that wearing a helmet gives you a 14% higher chance of getting into an accident, nor did he mention that you have a higher risk of brain injury from rotational impacts with a helmet on. He’s bought the ideology of the helmetologists, I guess. Doing no favours to increasing ridership. Bet he has share in car companies.
http://cyclehelmets.org – The Bicycle Helmet Research Foundation

By: mikesonn

mikesonn — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:27:06 +0000

Agree Adrenne. Rob is just baiting. He is looking at stats for the US where bikes are treated as though they don’t belong on the road. Once people are given priority and protection on the road, then helmets aren’t nearly as necessary.

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:53:52 +0000

If nothing else, looking at places like Copenhagen or Amsterdam show us that when people are deemed to be the most important aspect of public planning wonderful things happen and intelligent, inclusive design rules and the people thrive.

When we stick with the kind of model that SF has been straddled with, we get planning that is universally unsatisfactory for all.

By: Rob Anderson

Rob Anderson — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:40:14 +0000

“Non-helmeted riders are 14 times more likely to be involved in a fatal crash than helmeted riders…Head injuries account for more than 60 percent of bicycle-related deaths, more than two-thirds of bicycle-related hospital admissions and about one-third of hospital emergency room visits for bicycling injuries…A very high percentage of cyclists’ brain injuries can be prevented by a helmet, estimated at anywhere from 45 to 88 per cent.”
http://www.bhsi.org/stats.htm#ny

By: Todd Edelman

Todd Edelman — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:31:14 +0000

I luhhhv you guys! During my first two years in San Francisco I never rode a bike, though I had been a kind of recreational rider before I got my driver’s license. On an eight-month journey through Europe in 1986 – when I was only 20 – my visit to Copenhagen and the cycling I did therein and thereabouts served as direct, happy inspiration for post-trip activities in San Francisco, which included, of course, getting my first bike in about five or six years and using it and its successors to get around town since then — not just in SF, but also in D.C., NYC, Prague and Berlin.

From Berlin – before a return visit to the Danish capital – with two Swedish partner companies I worked on an entry for that competition Chris mentioned, and won first prize.

This never would have happened without the inspiration from Copenhagen (and Aarhus as well), plus a visit a bit earlier to Berlin, later to Groningen/Amsterdam/Leiden but especially all the years of cycling in S.F., supported by Chris and his cultural environ-lings.

By: Yvonne

Yvonne — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:07:42 +0000

Hey Chris,

Great interview!! Thanks for posting. Looking forward to meeting Mikael one of these days – gotta figure out a way to have him visit Toronto

Happy Holidays from cold, but still not snowy, Toronto!

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:37:07 +0000

Interesting interview, thanks Chris. Nice to have this up and on the airwaves for all to read here in Sharrow Town.