how come there was no option to select "amsterdamize" as one of 'treehugger.com's best bicycle blogs? - you are my 'muse' and i couldn't select you!!

OK. I go to you and we ride. Next, you come here and we ride. Then, we post all the pictures and it makes everyone want to ride everywhere all the time : )

Hi Marc,

I'm Tony, Art director @ www.afdelingcreatie.nl. We saw some nice pictures on amsterdamize.com. We would like to know if you are willing to sale some pictures for commercial use (online use for bicycle tire company). If so contact me on

hi Tony, thanks for your inquiry. Yes, I'm interested. You forgot to include your e-mail address, so please contact me here and we'll pick it up from there.

I just read this in an article about cycling Sydney:

The vice-president of Bicycle NSW, Richard Birdsey, said European bikes were not what local riders needed. ''Upright bikes are all well and good in low speed and flat environments, but I don't think they are suitable for what you have here in Sydney,'' he said. ''They are designed, without sounding sexist, for women (!!!).

''If you are moving in the serious traffic here you need something a bit quick, something you can throw around, something more performance oriented.''

Maybe you could do a fotoseries about butch young men on bikes in Amsterdam :-).

This is the article:
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/safety-experts-urge-c...

hahaha, maybe I should :). Thanks Norms, I did see that and commented on it on Twitter...so did my brother in Melbourne, right on the money :).

Not just children, apparently: http://www.pluspost.nl/vroeger-was-alles-beter/...

cool, Frits...thought long and hard and I truly think I'm not a whiner...more of the type 'the glass is half full' ;). PS, there is this guy in A'dam who rides around town with his Jack Russell on his shoulders, strapped down. Of course, he's old school :)

The "vroeger was alles beter" is just a coincidence. The pic is from the 1930s I think.
Now if you would have combined the quote with the blog owner's name, that would have been sick ...

ok on pic...but I think I lost you. Which quote?

Our spring has been a bit fitful so far - everything is blooming, and the temperature has been rising, but mostly it's still been a bit grey and drizzly. Looking forward to the days of brighter sunshine to make those blooming flowers really glow.

Love that photo of the man and woman laughing :)

I sympathize, so glad we got that part over with :)

Yeah, must have been a good joke :)

You think we'll have 'rokjesdag' this year, without Martin Bril?

Absolutely, it will live on in his name. I, for one, will be supporting that ;)

As always, wonderful pictures; I'll know spring has really arrived when the girls are riding bare legged! It won't be long now, will it!

Thanks, Wilma and no, it won't!

...can guys be 'muses'? - you're inspiring whatever!

Marc can be a muse, but only if he wears a wig and some lipstick.

I'm a liberated man, so yes, I can ;)

Cheers!

your blog is heavenly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - you are a 'muse' to my activism!!!