It’s summer in Melbourne, so I have a fitting message for my brother over at Melbournize, who’s preparing to enter Mikael’s Cycle Chic Contest (courtesy of Adrienne).
He’s about to embark on a ride with a date and his camera (I assume in that order ;-p), primarily aiming to tickle your cycle chic senses. He better [...]
A Shout Out To Melbournize
CPH Cycle Chic Peek
Soon after arrival in rainy Copenhagen, lunch and coffee, my generous cycle host Mikael and I set off on a tour around town.
Feeling right at home on the many bike lanes, albeit characteristically blue ones, we buzzed around each other like bees in a flower bed. Cameras at gun point, efficiently weaving through all the [...]
Biking In Portland, Part 4
Dave borrowed a Gorillapod and recorded another Bike To Work video. I really like the music he used (his own!), juxtaposing the many speedy down hill parts of his commute. The cars he trails are only good for showing us his reflection :-p, I spotted a Dutch bike on the bridge and it is ALWAYS [...]
A Texas Bike Ride
My friend and vlogger Susan, aka KityKity, was so kind to go on a bike ride and record it. That’s becoming quite a theme these days, huh? ;-p
We knew each other through that quaint group of vloggers that continue to conquer the world by leaps and bounds. Ok, ok, little steps. We had been in [...]
ABCoustic Budapest
(As posted on VlogEurope)
Saturday was ‘Vlog Your ABC’ day, so to say. Five second snippets, in one way or another connecting letters that mattered to each person’s take on it. In teams of 3 we ventured into town, Raymond (The Boy King) hooked me up with Sigrid and Joel.
I thought I knew what I was [...]
Bicycle Paradise
Yanek from Bicyclog sent me his video of typical Yom Kippur celebrations in Tel Aviv:
“I’ve uploaded a video about Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) - Bicycle paradise.
I took it with my friend we traveled across the city Tel Aviv from the different spots. It was fun and amazing to see how different it can be [...]
Biking In Portland
Amsterdamize reader/viewer Dave, aka the ‘Melancholic Optimist’ from Portland, Oregon, contributes this video of his bike commute: to work, going from what looks like the suburbs to downtown Portland.
“…it’s about an 8 mile commute round trip (13 km), it’s just that Portland is arranged in neighborhoods outside of the main city center area. It’s [...]
Snippet
When you are like me, sitting on the couch all day…in other words, The Office, you frequently remind yourself it’s always healthy to find an excuse to go outside. In my particular case, that scenario always involves hopping on my bike.
I figured I could run an errand. Step one is making one up. Step two [...]
Bridging The Gaps
We all (at least you and I) like to see more people moving around on bicycles. All around the world the best invention on wheels of the century is experiencing an unprecedented come-back. ‘Normal cycling’ is gaining lots of traction, Northern-European bike manufacturers can hardly handle demand from overseas, local dealers are struggling to keep [...]
Jammin’ On My Opafiets
You remember/heard of Les & Helen from Ottawa, Canada, right? No? Ok, a short recap of what I posted before is in order then.
Les & Helen decided on spending their 2 weeks vacation cycling the Netherlands. In good spirits, and inspired by yours truly, they opted to leave their helmets, gear and mountain bikes at [...]
Contribution: Trail Of The Coeur d’Alenes
Wilma from Spokane, Washington again delights us with an excellent bike-view recording of going down one if its beautiful trails:
The part of the trail that I filmed is on the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation. This trail goes almost border to border, across the northern part of the state of Idaho (northwest corner of the U.S.) [...]
Saturday Transit
You can imagine all the things you need to do, or want to do on a Saturday. No need to spell that out. Translate all of that to a place called Amsterdam and you know you’re in for a treat. Well, if you’re into bicycles, that is.
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I literally sat my ass down, curb [...]
Car(e)-Free Sunday
I know, I know, posting about Car-Free Sunday in Amsterdam has now officially gone past trilogy status. But hey, by now you know what to expect from me and there was just too much footage to ignore and not share with you.
So without further ado, here are my visualizations of all my impressions that day. [...]
Whike’d [Update]
Whike is a new company that introduces the Whike 1.0, a tricycle recumbent bike with a 1.6m2 sail. This recumbent bike can take advantage of the wind to propel itself, while still allowing cycling (if there’s no wind).
It’s a new concept combining 2 sports (cycling and sailing). Besides being a very green way of transport, [...]
Les Vélos d’Amsterdam
A Saturday in September, Indian Summer as they say. Perfect for running errands, aka going from Westerpark to the Jordaan, crossing the canals, to Spui, around Kloveniersburgwal, Nieuwmarkt, China Town, passing Central Station, re-entering downtown, back to Prinsengracht and passing Anne Frank House, the Jordaan terraces and arriving back in Westerpark.
A proper video tribute to [...]
Bicycles & Art [Update]
I love bicycles and creating videos (quite redundant, I know). Two passions that merged, one personal, the other partly professional. It’s also no secret I’m keeping track of what other people do, creatively, and will post about that whenever I can, because you just gotta share the love.
What follows is a post from my [...]
To The Supermarket
Here are two of my cycle life’s little snapshots, going to the supermarket after running another errand, merging with fellow Amsterdam cyclists riding home and elsewhere. And I got to use that lovely song by Vincent Baguian, thanks Maria!
Sure, you can scroll through the Bicycle TV category posts right here on the site, but [...]
Spokane Spokaliciousness
This is great, another cycle video entry from an Amsterdamize viewer, this time it’s Wilma!
Your movie about your trip to Ouderkerk a/d Amstel inspired me to record my ride. This is the route that I take to work, a distance of about 16 km. It takes me about an hour each way, so I [...]
Amsterdam Exit
As I mentioned and showed in my previous post, I went to the Uitmarkt on Saturday to see a few highlights of the upcoming 2008/2009 cultural season. After a few hours, I reckoned it was such a beautiful day, too nice to just sit on my ass, have a beer and wait for the next [...]
‘Critical Mass’
Monday, August 25, 5 P.M. Rozengracht. Twenty minutes of filming at an ordinary city artery for trams, buses, cars, motorbikes, mopeds, cyclists and pedestrians, just before rush hour. I didn’t add a soundtrack, didn’t perform any alterations, except that I cut all recorded scenes to 3 seconds, in the correct time sequence, so all lineair. [...]
The Old Fat Black Bicycle
I found this ultra short video on A Balanced View and I liked it too. From the maker ‘VrouwVan40′ on YouTube:
fiN 2006 is a small movie contest between friends. The assignment: make a movie of 30 seconds about friendship.
‘The Old Fat Black Bicycle’, and go to Amsterdamize Bicycle TV to watch this and every other [...]
Rekindled Cycle Love [Update]
Kim grew up in Amsterdam. Stopped riding a bike at 18. For 15 years she walked, used taxis, public transportation, her own car, etc, but mostly taxis. Since we met, it was obvious to her I had sort of this thing going with 2 wheelers. She felt she didn’t need a bike, it was too [...]
Here Comes The Sun by Wim Harwig
Wim Harwig from Vlissingen sent 4 videos to Amsterdamize, this being one of them. He rides home on his recumbent bicycle from working the night shift, enjoying an extraordinary sunrise and a generally serene commute home. Well shot from all angles possible, including eying himself. I love it.
As highlighted in the ‘Xtra’ segment on Amsterdamize [...]
TAG - short film by William Prouty
I just HAVE to share this with you. As highlighted in the ‘Xtra’ segment on Amsterdamize Bicycle TV.
Manayunk Fast Food by Lynn Roche
Amsterdamize just received a new Cycle Chic video contribution!
You have inspired me to try my hand at filming-while-cycling, so here is my first project.
My daughter (age 9) and I are so inspired by Amsterdamize and Copenhagen Cycle Chic (you will see she is wearing a skirt in the video). Thank you for sharing your “bike [...]
Double Dutch Parking
I never got around to doing the obvious stuff, like this. It was about time. I present you the floating bicycle parking garage at Amsterdam Central Station.
A Family Weekend On Texel
On the first weekend of July I visited my parents who were vacationing on the island of Texel with their grandkids. This treasure of the north of the lowlands is also excellent for cycling, so I took my bike on the train & ferry and oozed off for an unwinding long weekend. Check it out.
Go [...]
A Boy And His Bike
Hello, I’m Huub and I’m a big fan and now the first real contributor to Amsterdamize Bicycle TV. My 5 year old son Mattu took my Christiania bakfiets for a spin in the center of Wageningen today, which is in the east of the Netherlands. After that my other son Fedde joined us to go [...]
Riding With Marie
Yesterday morning I received an urgent e-mail from Mikael saying that Marie, his co-blogger and Copenhagen cycle fashionista in crime had taken a one day detour to Amsterdam on her EuRail trip through Europe. He asked me to meet up with her, knowing very well we’d have a ball.
And he was right, obviously. Marie is a [...]
Around The Block
The summer returned today after 3 weeks of rain. A good reason to take a detour around the block while shopping for groceries and flip out the phone camera.
Camera: Nokia N95
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