When my Globe and Mail colleague Gary Mason headed off to Copenhagen two weeks ago to cover the announcement of the 2016 Olympics, I blathered on to him before he left about how the city had done an amazing job of getting people out of cars and onto bikes. More than a third of people ride bikes regularly now in this Danish city and, unlike Amsterdam, it didn’t have a strong biking culture when it started on its campaign to promote cycling.

Gary took a look at their new cycling culture while he was there and here’s his story.