Via Planetizen: This video from the Wall St. Journal Online gives a first-hand look at the current bicycle culture in Beijing, and the variety of bike types available.
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On Saturday I met up with Tiago from Ride’n’Desire to explore the city by bike. Tiago is a Portuguese expat, theater producer and bike tour operator in between gigs. His passion for bicycles is obvious, if only for the fact that he rides around on a genuine Chinese Flying Pigeon from the 50’s, which he [...]
I got home a few hours ago. The train ride back was excellent as I was fortunate to travel in Comfort 1 class. Free WiFi, power for my laptop, dinner served and unlimited supply of wine. How better to say au revoir to that beautiful city, right?
Anyway, while getting sober, I thought I’d edit [...]
Consider this my preliminary photo reportage of my weekend in Paris. A few observations to boot:
Cycle sophistication is in the details.
Parisians prefer it slow, too.
Cycling in Paris indeed equals liberté, égalité, fraternité
You’ll also see proof of that in my upcoming Bicycle TV episode, featuring Tiago, my cycle friend and guide last Saturday. Stay tuned!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This is the next part of my Amsterdamize Classics serie, covering the (visual) history of cycling in Amsterdam from 1895 to the present, using the online image library of the Amsterdam City Archive.
Today we embark on those troubling (mostly ‘interbellum‘) years from 1910 to 1930.
Go to the photoset to see them all and the descriptions.
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 [...]
This post is dedicated to normalcy in everyday cycling. Albeit, one that’s derived from my genetically altered cerebral cortex, but this is a pretty common phenomenon on the continent that is known as Europe.
I’d like to use a real life image of everyday cycling as a point of reference, so that nobody, and I mean [...]
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