Meeting Henry of Workcycles

Today I oozed to the other side of town to meet Henry Cutler of Workcycles. Up until today, we had only briefly talked on his blog and exchanged some e-mails. He’s an American expat with Dutch heritage (and closer to ‘home’ than I thought, because apparently he’s a far removed cousin of Michael Schaap, [...]

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Just an Amsterdam native who won't take his city and its cycling extravaganza for granted anymore, thinking these posts might be clues to others, inspiration perhaps, if you will...

Today I oozed to the other side of town to meet Henry Cutler of Workcycles. Up until today, we had only briefly talked on his blog and exchanged some e-mails. He’s an American expat with Dutch heritage (and closer to ‘home’ than I thought, because apparently he’s a far removed cousin of Michael Schaap, a good friend of mine) and he’s an extremely easy going and nice guy. Obviously, within minutes we started talking about Workcycle’s history, bikes, culture and other stuff. Meanwhile, I got to see his operation in action for a couple of hours with a few prospect customers walking in. Did I mention the Workcycles bikes are beautiful in style and functionality? ;-)

I tested a few models and I couldn’t help but think I should have waited with buying my Sparta Pick Up. I don’t really regret it, but the Workcycles models are way up there and well worth the extra few hundred euros. One small consolation was that I still needed to have a good Brooks saddle, so no better place than Henry’s to replace it.

Here are some pics of my visit:

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Meeting Henry of Workcycles

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10 Comments

  1. Scott Mizée added these cyclelicious words on July 20, 2008 | Permalink

    Great little article! Thanks for sharing with those of us who have not been there in person yet!
    -Scott
    (been riding one of Henry’s Bakfiets.nl workcycles in Portland Oregon for over two years now)

  2. amsterdamize added these cyclelicious words on July 20, 2008 | Permalink

    Scott, it’s no effort at all, it’s been a joy to get so many great responses in general, so as long as I keep doing what I’m doing, they’ll be more happy times.

    PS: have you tried tossing the helmet yet on your rides through Portland, or will one be scolded for it, still?

  3. 2whls3spds added these cyclelicious words on July 20, 2008 | Permalink

    Henry is on my list of people to meet one day.
    I wonder if he would be interested in opening up a branch shop here in the US? I have a feeling it may be needed before too long.

    Aaron

  4. amsterdamize added these cyclelicious words on July 20, 2008 | Permalink

    Aaron, I would ask him on his blog or e-mail him, henry at workcycles dot com.

  5. Maria Gatti added these cyclelicious words on July 21, 2008 | Permalink

    That is lovely. He seems to be up in the Northeastern docklands?

  6. amsterdamize added these cyclelicious words on July 21, 2008 | Permalink

    thanks, Maria, no, but close, he’s at Veemarkt, in that industrial park of Amsterdam East, Zeeburg, the part you know so well :).

    He’s about to open a 2nd store on Lijnbaansgracht, downtown.

  7. chiggins added these cyclelicious words on July 21, 2008 | Permalink

    Well, if you should decide that you need to get rid of your bike to upgrade to one of Henry’s, I’d certainly be interested in having it shipped here to DC. Not only is it lovely, but people here would ask me what kind of bike it was, and I could scream, “THIS IS SPARTA!” and kick them into a swimming pool. What’s better than that?

  8. amsterdamize added these cyclelicious words on July 21, 2008 | Permalink

    hahahahaha! The way you put it, it makes me sound like spoiled brat :). If I decide to do so, I will certainly give notice.

    This is SPARTA!. Too funny.

  9. Les added these cyclelicious words on September 3, 2008 | Permalink

    And I suspect that this will be part of my tour also……

  10. Amsterdamize added these cyclelicious words on September 3, 2008 | Permalink

    naturally ;)

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  2. Amsterdamize » On The Move on September 12, 2008

    [...] together, I’ll show them around and we’re going to pick up their new Azor rides at Henry Cutler’s Workcycles shop on Saturday. You can guess how excited they are. By the way, these fanatic [...]

  3. [...] I have a new saddle. Pretty weird, since the bike is new and I had purchased a new Brooks saddle at Workcycles a few weeks later. Despite the fact that I always put a plastic bag over it, parking my good boy outside for the [...]

  4. [...] always been on a genuine Workcycles bike. It was just that I bought Spartacus a few weeks before I met Henry for the first time. From then on, it kept bugging me. Not that Spartacus is a bad warrior, no. I love it. It glides, [...]

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