Why? Because it’s good for you. Builds character. Be real cool and read it in actual book form. Be super real cool and do so while riding your bike. Here’s the book: In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist. It’s by Pete Jordan. You may know him from Dishwasher fame. I…
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Plenty to do in Amsterdam… thanks to GVB, Amsterdam public transportation. But I’m posting this because it may be the slickest ad ever for public transportation (with the old Detroit People Mover song as a close second).
A post with great pictures showing biking in The Netherlands, to Amsterdam. I wish I could bike the same distance–say from New Brunswick, NJ–with such ease and beauty. And on such a whim.
Asbakfiets.Hilarious. Maybe you had to be there.Or know a little Dutch.
There’s a great little video showing a persons bike ride to the supermarket in Amsterdam. Click here then click on the video. No “action.” Just a slice of life. Why yes, that is what biking in Amsterdam is like. But I want to point out something, as a radical. Just notice how few cars there…
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I saw a man with four kids on his bike today here in Amsterdam. Three in the front cargo space of his bakfiets. One in a backpack-like kid carrier. I wanted to get a picture, but he was biking too fast.
So I’m in Amsterdam again. On day five, I saw my first fixed gear bike. It wasn’t like I was missing them or looking for them. I just find it interesting, one in five days. Meanwhile there are now hundreds of bakfietsen. In some ways, symbolically, a new bakfiets here is kind of like an…
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And his lovely wife, Amy. You may know Pete Jordan as author of Dishwasher (and infamous Dave Letterman no-show). I went up to their bike store in the North of Amsterdam to meet them, drop off a copy of my book, and get an Egyptian bike bell put on my bike. Peter wasn’t in. But…
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Approaching a bike parking barge of the River IJ (pronounced “eye”) The entrance to the bike parking.Mural on the bike parking barge.The lighting on this bike path going over a canal and under train tracks is so nice. And it could so easily be so ugly. What could be a scary place, is actually quite…
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I’m in Amsterdam, trying to remember to take some pictures. There are so many sights that seem unremarkable to people who live here. But I’ve been gone for a while so things like this stand out. These pictures are from parts of town you won’t see on postcards. Here’s an average Dutch street with an…
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