You got the point. Thanx for your avid cycle posts. Following you from Pamplona…

The everyday reality is much nicer, for sure. I was just thinking the other day that one of the problems with trying to photograph people on bicycles in Portland is there are always so many cars in the way. I've tried to take photos like that first one across the intersection, but have been confounded by streams of cars going by. To get good shots here, you really have to go to particular parts of town and position yourself well, there's not much room for a spontaneous snap to turn out really well.

Fortunately, we have you to pick up the slack for us :)

Thanks, EnekO, good to know!

I sometimes sit on the stoop and wait for that one special moment for close to 30 minutes…never mind, still different ;).

I'm happy to do so, bien sur :)

Is that guy in the middle eating a donut while riding? My hero.

Sometimes I think that Chicago is getting a respectable number of cyclists, but then I check in here and am reminded of what a real cycling culture looks like. Absolutely gorgeous shots.

your hero is eating a Dutch delicacy: a kroket :)

Thanks, Dottie, Chicago will get there too!

The young woman in black needs some advice on looking after the chain on her bike or is this a new type of exercise regime for dutch people. You must keep pedaling to stop everything from seizing up.

It's an old bike, it used to have a full chain guard, but as it goes in Amsterdam, as long as the bike works, she will continue with it and let a bike shop figure it out when it actually falls apart. What do you mean by 'seizing up'?

I so love the shots of passengers on the bikes!

I know exactly what you mean. Amsterdamize makes me want to do the same thing, but there are extremely few opportunities to do that.

We have only one road in which you could capture more than 5 bicycle riders in a single shot, Milwaukee Avenue. See this photo. I took that for work and even scoped out the place the day before so I could be ready for the short onslaught of commuters on their way home.

So, instead, I take lots of pictures of trains :)

I'm not so sure how I feel about the kid in the basket…

I feel good about the kid in the basket.