Every trishaw we ship funds Cycling Without Age
Copenhagen Cycles exists for two reasons — to get trishaws out to every corner of the world, and to keep the wheels of Cycling Without Age turning everywhere they touch down.
Why Copenhagen Cycles exists
Copenhagen Cycles was founded in 2016 by Ole Kassow and Dorthe Pedersen. Back then, it was either impossible or very difficult to get hold of trishaws in countries like the United States, Canada, or Australia.
Every day we heard from someone wanting to start a chapter of Cycling Without Age in a country where trishaws simply weren't available. Copenhagen Cycles was our answer — a single place to source, ship, and support trishaws worldwide, with every sale feeding the non-profit movement behind the rides.
The biggest funder of Cycling Without Age
We commit substantial amounts of Copenhagen Cycles' profits to Cycling Without Age. As an Ashoka Fellow, Ole is further committed to reinvesting — for at least 10 years — any surplus or revenue of Copenhagen Cycles, excluding a reasonable salary, into the enterprise, related projects, or other socially beneficial aims.
Copenhagen Cycles is by far the biggest funder of Cycling Without Age. Crucially, we don't impose an agenda on CWA or how funds are allocated — unlike most grants from governments or foundations. It's our way of keeping the non-profit independent from political or religious agendas while bringing more trishaws into the world.
Four things your trishaw pays for
1,000+ local chapters
20+ country chapters
Shaping every major trishaw
The global IT platform
Beyond that, Cycling Without Age radically innovates to bring trishaws out to less affluent countries and regions around the world. Your purchase is what makes that possible.
I sincerely thank you for supporting Cycling Without Age by purchasing your trishaw from Copenhagen Cycles. Take care — and see you on the road.
Ole Kassow
I'm an advocate of doing good. I believe relationships should be a human right, and I'm passionate about cycling. My father was in a wheelchair my whole life, and he taught me the importance of mobility — and of being respectful to people with disabilities.
After years working as a consultant and in sales, I changed my path and created the company Purpose Makers. In 2012 I founded Cycling Without Age. To my surprise, in 2016 I was approached by the Ashoka network — and in 2017, after 8 months of scrutiny, I was proudly able to call myself an Ashoka Fellow.
Ashoka identifies and supports the world's leading social entrepreneurs, learns from the patterns in their innovations, and mobilizes a global community that embraces these new frameworks to build an "everyone a changemaker" world.
Copenhagen Cycles ApS
Address
Rentemestervej 80
2400 København NV
Denmark
Get in touch
hi@copenhagencycles.com
+45 53 62 19 79
Ownership
- Pernille Vedersø Bussone (Director) — 50%
- Bouncing Back ApS (Ole Kassow) — 50%
Let's get a trishaw rolling in your community
Tell us where you are, how you'll use it, and who'll ride — we'll match you to the right model and handle the logistics from Copenhagen.