The Experience
Welcome to Bike Mike Tours in Copenhagen. My ambition is to provide all my guests with an exciting and authentic experience of my hometown. It's a beautiful city suited to be discovered by bicycle. Copenhagen's bike revolution - including cycling safe on the hundreds of km's of well-designed bike lanes - is a truly unique experience. I will do my best on all bike tours to share my joy and appreciation for cycling, my hometown, my country, the world and life together with you.
All open tours depart from Bike Mike base in 10 Turesensgade in central Copenhagen. Easy to locate and close to all the best places in town when the tour has finished and time to move on.
How to get to Bike Base in Turesensgade:
If you stay in the city, time to walk to Bike Mike base is from:
- Town Hall: ten minutes
- Tivoli Garden: ten minutes
- Tourist Information Office: ten minutes
- Main Hotel District next to Main Train Station: ten minutes
- Nyhavn: twenty minutes
If you arrive Copenhagen on a Cruise boat, here are your travel options:
1/ By public City bus # 26, hop on just off your boat, get off at Town Hall Square (in Danish: Rådhuspladsen) and then walk the 500 m. which takes approx. 5-10 minutes to Bike Mike base. Bus tickets at Dkk 24,00 per person. Strictly Danish currency only. Travel time in total: approx.: 40 minutes.
2/ By taxi, cost approx.. Dkk 150,00, four persons per taxi max. Travel time: approx.. 15 minutes.
3/ By walking, get hold of a city map, cost nothing. Travel time: approx. 60 to 90 minutes.
Here's a great read for Cruise Boaters, full of tips and inspiration!
When you arrive to Bike Mike base, you will be given your bike for the tour. Please hop on for a test ride before departure. If you arrive too early there are café opportunities within 50 m of the Bike Mike base providing a cuppa of coffee or tea. Before departure a brief introduction of what to see on tour is given plus how to stay safe on the bike tour.
About cycling in Copenhagen:
It’s very safe to cycle in Copenhagen. The investment in the 500 km’s of safe bicycle lanes make it a breeze to cruise through the city when guided by Bike Mike’s more than 50 years of urban cycling experience. Half of Copenhagen’s residents commute daily around the city on bicycle. It’s truly an experience not to be missed discovering the cityscape from the bicycle perspective:
"Cycling in Copenhagen brings us closer to the life of the city and the people who inhabit it. Your fellow citizens are right there next to you, propelling themselves effortlessly through the urban landscape. We are one with our town on our bicycles".
All bike tours follow the Bike Mike philosophy:
When we bike, Copenhagen does all the talking,
when we stop, we do the talking
This means, that no verbal guidance is given while cycling. Verbal guidance will be given when we hop off the bikes for our talk-stops. These talk-stops are very informative with loads of information – historic and present – of Copenhagen and Denmark’s rise to one of the world’s most liveable places today in the light of Denmark was one of Europe’s poorest nations eighty years ago. You will walk away from a Bike Mike Tour with a unique urban cycling experience plus knowing lots more about Copenhagen and Denmark than before you arrived.
Payment is after the bike tour and always cash only. DKK and Euro are preferred currencies but US Dollars is accepted at the exchange rate of the day plus 10%.
After the bike tour you are most welcome to ask for advice of what to do or where to go in Copenhagen. Please visit “Mike’s CPH to do” on this site for inspiration when visiting.
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