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hero meets hero…
Luigi Colani on his knees in front of a Fixie-Inc. Single Speed …in 2004 the producers of the Fixie-Inc. bicycles made the famous Luigi Colani fall on his knees! It even looks like he is praying to a object of design in the shape of a single speed/fixed gear bicycle. But it is not just any [...]
commuting to jail
Peter Paul Michalski (46) made everything correct - in a political and ecological way. He used a commuter bike (with legal light-system and mudguards) for his daily transport, he enjoyed fresh air and he was in his leisure clothing, when riding on a bicycle in his home region on Bundesstraße 58 in direction to Schermbeck (Wesel) near the Dutch border. So it [...]
classic dutch…
[attention: self-marketing.. ] Last week, the first Gazelle bicycles were delivered to final customers in Portugal. Really interesting in that context was the fact, that these clients found on their own the type of bicycle and the size of frame etc. through Internet search and decided after a few mails what to buy. All of [...]
Biking for abandoned animals
Another two idealists.. Toni Aematteis (Italian) e Sabine Knoll (German) started with 2 bicycles and three dogs in Italy to pedal through Europe. They started on 22 of August 2008 in Ostuni (BR) and are are now in Portugal (near Aveiro). This is what “Journal de Notícias” wrote today: Pedalada para salvar animais And this is [...]
100 days in Lisbon by bicycle
This is a story about an idealist Paulo Guerra do Santos, born 1973 decided to use his bicycle. Nothing spectacular so far? Of course, if we would talk about Munich, Amsterdam or Berlin. But we talk about Lisbon. Portugal. A city and a country still made for car drivers. The natural enemy of a [...]
Finally: What is this Blog about?
Olá amigos! Hello friends! We started in October 2008 collecting information about urban mobility solutions, that are available in Portugal. This lead us to the conclusion, that a lot of work could be done and a lot of products – already available in the rest of Europe – could be interesting for that market to [...]
Copenhagen Design meets Atlantic Ocean!
Hey! It is a week ago, that a big truck brought a large box from Denmark. Inside were two Cargo Bikes “Bullitt” from LarryvsHarry/Copenhagen. I will start this story with the documentation of completing the bikes and doing the first ride! So: stay tuned! The story: Hamburg-Oporto ..Orange! no sports!! really British! admiring [...]
Welcome! Bem-vindos!
LISBONIZE? ..maybe in the tradition of copenhagenize.com? or amsterdamize.com? In November 2008 I started on YouTube to show some of my videos, taken during the introduction of my new project “Urban Mobility” in Portugal. Getting soon a lot of feedback in relation to the short time that these clips were online, I started a small [...]
How everything begun…
Picture copyright: Bernd Otten OK, this post should have been written in the beginning, but creativity not always appears on demand… In August 2008 I visited Amsterdam and was impressed by the perfect integration of bicycles and other alternative vehicles in the city structure. Comparing that with the conditions in Portuguese cities (and some others [...]
First Cargo bike ride in Porto
First Impressions… Today I did my first ride with our new cargo bike in Porto. My son (3 years) and a friend of him loved it! BUT: The other people — seeing us driving along -were really impressed. They stopped — even in the middle of the street — looking, screaming and pointing with their [...]
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