I feel like I should mention that it doesn't seem like the Japanese fuck around when they make their bikes nice. I think that Schwinn was probably the rattiest bike I saw, and usually even the most rediculous ugly bikes you saw still had carbon fiber so-and-so's, leather seats, aluminum things and neon colors galore. I wish I would have gotten more pictures of the old lugged steel frames and bikes I saw, but I didn't so too bad. Also I lied, that is in fact a Surly big dummy in the above picture. 
Kind of like these.
There are also tons of small folding bikes and bikes with really rediculous frame geometry, like these.
You probably noticed the motor assist on that one bike. They are super popular, but I never really knew if people actually used them or if they worked. How come none of these bikes are locked up you ask? Answer: they are. They have these little integrated bike locks that go where your rear brake hole is. And if you don't want to do that, you could always park it at a parking garage.
"Pling. All of sudden this little bicycle-friendly detail showed up on the urban landscape in Copenhagen one day. I'm quite sure that very few people have noticed it, except for the people who roll up next to it.
Which is the point, really.I'm talking about the railings that the man is holding onto and resting his foot on. It's located on a little traffic island on which cyclists who are heading straight on wait. The City of Copenhagen has implemented this double railing simply as a convenience for the cyclists who stop here. A high railing to grasp with your hand and a foot railing for putting your foot up, if that's what you fancy doing. Either way you can also use the railing to push off when the light changes."
