The Five Urban Cycling Senses

Mikael Colville-Andersen
18 min readJan 12, 2022

It’s a touchy-feely thing, urban cycling. It’s physical, organic and a feast for the senses. I’m sure the spandexy dudes get all sensory on their fancy bikes as they measure their watts or whatever they do, but this is about the Five Urban Cycling Senses in a bicycle-friendly city where your bike is your fifth limb — and all the inherent poetry involved in that.

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Mikael Colville-Andersen

Urban designer, author and host of the global documentary series about urbanism, The Life-Sized City. Impatient Idealist.