Groeten uit Amsterdam

Picture yourself walking through a city where you can hear the gentle rubbing and clicking of chains and the soft mumbling of chatter and laughter. You mistakenly walk into the bicycle lane as it is your first time in

New Beginnings

On Wednesday evening (June 6), just before I headed for Zagreb to speak at the Pedalafest conference, I launched the new Amsterdamize website (more on which later this week). Having returned, I received this message via the

Bicycle Cultures Are Man-Made

The European Cyclists Federation launched their new website earlier this month and for this occasion I did a guest post, which of course also belongs on Amsterdamize. Here it goes (with a few [add-ons]): I was asked by the

Amsterdamize In New York City

Sometimes a cycle life gets in the way of ..., well, you know, actual bike blogging. So, long overdue, but here it goes. Before I arrived in New York at the end of April I anticipated riding with my #bikeNYC friends &

Postcards From Amsterdam, Hello Copenhagen

It has cleared up a bit in Amsterdam and the rest of the country, two weeks of what seemed like never-ending downpour was clearly enough for most. People moaned, sighed and bitched like there was no tomorrow. But

Bikes Are Shoes

Two Saturdays ago I had two appointments scheduled in the afternoon. First with Joe Peach, contributor of ThisBigCity, who was traveling around the Netherlands to do research for his upcoming Masters dissertation. He studies