Julie Hrudova

If you follow me on Twitter, you might know about Julie Hrudova. I got to know about Julie through Paddy Cahill's video project 'Riding With', intrigued as I was by the fact that Julie is a photographer. You know

King of the world

I've shown you Dutch music videos over the years that one way or the other featured bicycles. Forget those.  What I'm presenting to you is something that captures the imagination a 1000x more than depth of

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

Rise And Shine

Amsterdam is up for a challenge. Over the last 10 years, most significantly in the last 5 years, it has ignored and/or completely underestimated the relentless growth in cycling. Recently published estimates show that in the

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

On Going Dutch, Cherry-Picking & Confusion

Warning: this is going to be a long post. Why? Because this subject deserves all the space it needs. It deals with our neighbors just across the channel, a short distance away but light years apart when it comes to cycling.