Renting a road bike for UWCT race in Denmark

Hi Terry. Are you flying in to Copenhagen?

I was there with a couple of family members at the end of July. British Airways failed to deliver one of our bike boxes when we arrived. It didn't turn up until 36 hours after we arrived, which was pretty damn stressful, though fortunately we had planned to spend a couple of nights in Copenhagen before setting off up the coast (on bikes).

We spent some time looking for an alternative source of decent bikes. Most hire places seemed to stock fairly basic sit-up-and-beg models for the tourists, but we did find one shop that stocked road bikes and visited to see what they could offer. They were pretty helpful, fairly easy to locate and the road bikes looked good, so you could think about giving them a try if you want an alternative to taking a bike from the UK.

In the end we didn't need to use one of their bikes, because of the missing one being delivered to us, but if I were heading back there, I would seriously considering using them to source a road bike.

Website here: http://copenhagenbicycles.dk/rent/

The Kuota shown on their website, which I also saw when we visited the shop, looked like a pretty sweet ride, and I don't think there are all that many places that hire carbon frames.

Good luck with the race!

Ahh, thats a sore one! That's exactly the same position I was in, bikebox hired etc.
I'd take the madone you linked to, it might not be as good as your own bike but I'd be surprised if you can rent a much better bike at relatively short notice and it's then one less thing to worry about.
I probably don't need to say it, but make sure you fit your own saddle/pedals etc and spend a bit of time getting your set up right before your event, I ended up rolling once around a car park on a totally unfamiliar bike then rather foolishly did a long distance race on it, my knees were wrecked.
Enjoy Denmark

It's maybe not much help directly, but I was in a similar situation about a month ago when my own bike broke a few days before I went to norway for an event. I found it hard to find a place that rented decent road bikes, particularly as I need an xl frame one. I ended up having to take a pretty low spec bike as it was the only one I could find, but it was better than no bike!

The deal you have at £175/wk is pretty much on-the-money for week hires I think and a madone 3.5 is a fairly good machine for a hire place to be handing out.
The place I hired from had no issue with where I took it or what I did with it, just as long as I brought it back untrashed.

You could try and source a bike in Denmark, it'd save you the hassle of transporting it and the excess baggage charge... but you might be a bit pushed for time to get that arranged.