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  • 21.Aug
  • Things I Saw While Cycling
  • Last night I pedaled my way downtown to meet a friend. As I approached Leidseplein, which is known for its buzzing business in the evening, I saw people dancing to what turned out to be the Lindy Hop, some in vintage style clothing. Accompanied by a live singer/bass player, it was good fun. Sure enough, [...]

  • 18.Aug
  • Urban Myths
  • Similar to the distorted notion that cycling and its extensive (read: smart) infrastructure are exclusive to Amsterdam (au contraire, it’s even better outside the capital), I’m equally aware that lots of visitors take away the impression that the Dutch only ride on so-called ‘beaters’ (I acknowledge I may have contributed to that notion just a [...]

  • 13.Aug
  • Back To Cycling Normalcy
  • So you return home from sunny France, the weather has turned sour and your mind wanders off to Cycle Chic Parisiennes oozing down avenues on their vintage Peugeots…then you flip back to reality to find all’s well and mesmerizing as usual.

    Typical. Amsterdam Cycle Chic in heels, long rain coat and keeping hair do together with [...]

  • bicycle tv

  • 21.Aug
  • Spandex and BMX: China’s Changing Bicycle Culture
  • Via Planetizen: This video from the Wall St. Journal Online gives a first-hand look at the current bicycle culture in Beijing, and the variety of bike types available.

    Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no! Please don’t change, China! And please, can people/media stop mentioning electric bicycles as the next big thing? We’ve successfully maintained [...]

  • 14.Aug
  • Tour De Force
  • On Monday afternoon I went for a last tour through Paris, cycling around Montmartre, on Avenue des Champs-Élysées, around Place Charles de Gaulle, underneath the Eiffel Tower, across Montparnasse, along the banks of the Seine and oozing through 1 Arrondissement back to my friends’ house, then quickly catching my train back to Amsterdam. I edited [...]

  • news

  • 13.Aug
  • Bike Czar in Pittsburgh [L.A.UPDATE]
  • From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, via Bikeprovidence.org:
    Bicycle czar will try to tame city streets
    Mayor creates post to improve cycling
    Tuesday, August 12, 2008
    By Rich Lord, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Stephen Patchan prefers urban cycling to pedaling through the countryside because it’s “more exciting, for obvious reasons.”
    The new Pittsburgh bike-pedestrian coordinator’s job, though, is to make pedaling or walking the city’s 89 [...]

  • 12.Aug
  • Presenting the Cleanest Car in Beijing
  • It’s more than ironic that MINI tries to promote a car through the concept of cycling, don’t ya think?

    From Wired:

    “Getting attention in Beijing is tough these days if you aren’t an Olympian wearing gold or a protester unfurling a Tibetan flag, but Mini’s managed to do it with a rickshaw made from the back half [...]

  • photos

  • 13.Aug
  • Cargo Army Bike
  • You got it good buddy, my riding ’uniform’ can be seen in my Flickr page under mystery trunk.  Have a look:

    Just what is in this big trunk? Well, a five liter party keg of Paulaner Hefe-weizen of course in an ice chest with many other goodies for the Independence day cargo bike ride. This trunk had [...]

  • 26.Jul
  • Amsterdam Summer Cycle Chic
  • After 3 weeks of rain this city got back its color and vibrance, which can mean only one thing: more Amsterdamize Cycle Chic (…not that we don’t ride in the rain, goes without saying).

    See the rest in the photo set.

  • classics

  • 01.Aug
  • Amsterdamize Classics : 1910 - 1930
  • This is the next part of my Amsterdamize Classics serie, covering the (visual) history of cycling in Amsterdam from 1895 to the present, using the online image library of the Amsterdam City Archive.
    Today we embark on those troubling (mostly ‘interbellum‘) years from 1910 to 1930.

    Go to the photoset to see them all and the descriptions.

  • encounters

  • 19.Jul
  • Good Neighbors
  • I occasionally work/stay at Gabemac’s appartment, and returning from Workcycles I spotted these good fellas enjoying their Grolsch beers on the sidewalk of Brederodestraat (where my friends Bicyclemark and Amy also live).

    On the left is John, on the right Ron(ald). I asked permission to take their picture, because of a Grolsch project I’m helping out [...]

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  • Things I Saw While Cycling

    Last night I pedaled my way downtown to meet a friend. As I approached Leidseplein, which is known for its buzzing business in the evening, I saw people dancing to what turned out to be the Lindy Hop, some in vintage style clothing. Accompanied by a live singer/bass player, it was good fun. Sure enough, [...]

  • Urban Myths

    Similar to the distorted notion that cycling and its extensive (read: smart) infrastructure are exclusive to Amsterdam (au contraire, it’s even better outside the capital), I’m equally aware that lots of visitors take away the impression that the Dutch only ride on so-called ‘beaters’ (I acknowledge I may have contributed to that notion just a [...]

  • Back To Cycling Normalcy

    So you return home from sunny France, the weather has turned sour and your mind wanders off to Cycle Chic Parisiennes oozing down avenues on their vintage Peugeots…then you flip back to reality to find all’s well and mesmerizing as usual.

    Typical. Amsterdam Cycle Chic in heels, long rain coat and keeping hair do together with [...]

  • Paris Cycle Chic & Life

    Consider this my preliminary photo reportage of my weekend in Paris. A few observations to boot:

    Cycle sophistication is in the details.
    Parisians prefer it slow, too.
    Cycling in Paris indeed equals liberté, égalité, fraternité

    You’ll also see proof of that in my upcoming Bicycle TV episode, featuring Tiago, my cycle friend and guide last Saturday. Stay tuned!

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