Amsterdam Bicycle Parking

Parking your bike in Amsterdam is easy. Anything goes, just make sure it doesn’t obstruct the flow of pedestrian or bicycle traffic…and lock it to anything solid. A tree, a bridge railing, bike rack, any kind of pole, whatever. Only then you’ll have diminished its theft probability to acceptable (and comfortable) levels. That little advice [...]

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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...

Parking your bike in Amsterdam is easy. Anything goes, just make sure it doesn’t obstruct the flow of pedestrian or bicycle traffic…and lock it to anything solid. A tree, a bridge railing, bike rack, any kind of pole, whatever. Only then you’ll have diminished its theft probability to acceptable (and comfortable) levels. That little advice out of the way, I took some related and other pics during my necessary rides through town:


Or go to this set’s photo page.

And Your’s Truly broke a bicycle traffic law (do not cycle in a pedestrian area) and got a 35 Euro fine handed to him by Uncle Motorcycle Cop.

I Broke A Bicycle Law Today

Oh, and I finally got around to doing the obvious thing :-p

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2 Comments

  1. Tiago added these cyclelicious words on August 5, 2008 | Permalink

    Yes… mister blogger… you can be confused, you are a rider or a pedestrian ? I think the 35 € will make you think about it !
    greatings,

    Tiago

  2. Amsterdamize added these cyclelicious words on August 5, 2008 | Permalink

    haha, Tiago, thanks for the polemic reminder ;). I’ve been ‘bad’. I just sometimes forget, in places where, until quite recently, cycling was allowed. It’s not like I was intentionally bumping into pedestrians or anything.

    Come and live here and you’ll know what I mean.

    ciao, Marc

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