At first last weekend looked to be a dreary one. Cold, a thick fog and a tedious drizzle. The rain moved away, the grey blanket stayed put. Doing my cycle rounds in the city I quickly realized this could be the perfect time to switch my camera to monochrome. I wasn’t disappointed.

‘Support’

‘A bachelorette party spotted [...]

Last October I ventured outside with a video camera on a cold, windy and rainy Saturday afternoon. I tried several times, but I never really started editing…until this week. And right after hearing this news today, I was determined to have it done by this evening.
I already confessed my love for cycling in this [...]

Today I received an e-mail telling me I’ve won the Bicycle Mania Photo Contest. It won’t come as a surprise when I tell you this really made my day. A bit of background information on Bicycle Mania (via Bakfiets-en-meer):
Every fan and promoter of urban cycling simply needs a copy of Shirley Agudo’s “Bicycle Mania”. You [...]

Consider this my photo wrap up of the latter half of January, aka catching up on lost blog time.

‘Halfway January‘ (photo set)

‘Perpetual‘ (photo set)

‘Push Those Pedals‘ (photo set)

‘Push Those Pedals‘ (photo set)

‘It’s Friday‘ (photo set)

‘It’s Friday‘ (photo set)

I captured my good friend Michael once again…

‘Dam, It’s Good‘ (photo set)

I just have to share this short animation film by Michael Dudok de Wit, called ‘Father & Daughter’. A father says goodbye to his young daughter and leaves. As the wide Dutch landscapes live through their seasons so the girl lives through hers. She becomes a young woman, has a family and in time she [...]

Mikael recently posted this picture of a young woman cycling in Copenhagen:

It vaguely rang a bell, so I went through my 2008 video footage of my long weekend in CPH. Bingo. And I thought I’d edit up a little something dedicated to Mikael’s birthday today and Cycle Chic in general (for the Dutch and Danes [...]

Having not been able to finish writing up a long post (and long overdue), today I moved on to something else that has been on my mind for a while, my very own Weekly Photo Caption Contest. Inspired by Karl’s on ‘Do The Right Thing‘, I really wonder what my readers will come up with. [...]

William Hsu, employee of the San Franciscan bicycle shop My Dutch Bike that imports and retails handmade Dutch bicycles, recently visited Amsterdam and spent time at Henry Cutler’s Workcycles to ‘not only learn a bit more about the mechanics of drum/roller brakes, internally geared hubs and generator lights, but also just to absorb the culture [...]

People keep asking me whether we Dutch ride with tire studs much during winters like this one. Nope. You just deal with it, adjust and take care out there. I certainly don’t see the need, my Fr8 handles very well, plenty of traction, it’s just a very well-balanced bike. Dare I say it…its weight comes [...]

My hiatus is over, the new year is already 7 days old, time to move. What I’ve been up to you, you ask? Oh, you know, the usual. Kicking back in my peculiar way, seeing relatives for xmas, spending quality time with Lauren and celebrating that big ol’ street party with friends and some more [...]