From www.bikeportland.org today:
The Portland Department of Transportation has plans in the works for its first segregated bike path to be completed in 2010, along a section of road that is being completely reworked. The current plans include a bicycle path separated from the road by a curb, then a planter median between the cycle path [...]
Anytime, any place, anywhere. That’s when and where you’ll see people on bikes in ‘this part of the world’.
Taking the nice downtown route to go home.
Last chat between friends before going separate ways.
Left: Going home, patiently. Right: People on bikes being one while waiting for the bridge to come down.
Pulling up.
Dave has been in desperate need for proper ponchos for some time now, so I decided to go shopping for a few that will actually keep him and his wife dry when they confront showers riding their Electras around Portland.
At one store close to my home they were sold out, but there were 3 left [...]
Glenn Billingham, a UK expatriate living in Amsterdam, eloquently and entertainingly writes:
Powered By Our Own Shapely Thighs
The morning gathering took place again.
A Dutch rush-hour is a little different to the other global scenes of 9am and 5pm chaos. New Yorkers hustle and bustle accompanied by a take-out coffee amidst a sea of yellow cabs. City [...]
Today, the ‘Research Trailer Park’ blog posted an article from ‘The State’ newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina:
Bicycle Friendly press conference canceled
A press conference to talk about the city of Columbia’s new designation as a Bicycle Friendly Community has been canceled because of forecasted bad weather this afternoon.
The press conference has been rescheduled for 3 p.m. [...]
Copenhagen beware, Amsterdamize is coming. So is Mr Freight. Long overdue, as I was supposed to go this summer, but I had a scheduling conflict. I’ll be cruising around Copenhagen from next Friday until Monday (Nov 7-10).
That self-declared, stylish and neatly infrastructured ‘Bicycle Capital Of the World‘ should be able to satisfy my basic needs:
Welcome [...]
For all the talk about infrastructure, subjective safety, policies, promotion, education, etc etc, you’d almost forget that cycling to and from work is just plain fun. Even a drizzling foggy day is welcome when you step out and hop on to go to the office. Or a client in my case.
It really puts a [...]
Days and nights are getting crispy, leafs are falling and people one bikes in Amsterdam are transforming similarly.
This afternoon I took advantage of a nice enough day and sat down for lunch outside on the curb of Runstraat, smack in the middle of the famous Nine Little Streets. Slowly digesting my Club Chicken sandwich [...]
Today I took Mr Freight for a spin, running errands. Well, not that many. Coffee and groceries.
It looked gloomy outside, dark clouds, wind, but I figured (as always): it comes and it goes, who cares. So I got on…leaving my umbrella at home. I needed that hand for something more important.
Mr Freight makes even more [...]
Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to rent a bike and vlog a Bicycle TV episode, as other things got in the way, activities for which I had traveled there in the first place. This involved long days (and nights) on the town, geeking out and just socializing with friends I mostly talk to through the [...]
This music video of the HBO series ‘Flight of The Conchords’ (about 2 New Zealand artists’ living in the US) is just too damn funny, but you’ll also find out about the other reason I post this particular one…
Flight of the Conchords - Foux Da Fa Fa
More, I need more of these! Oh right, I [...]
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 [...]
From the Seattle Public Library blog ‘Shelf Talk‘:
Part 1: “Tour d’Amsterdam: Biking as a Tourist”
“Biking in Amsterdam is an experience that can be enjoyed by even novice cyclists. On almost all streets and roads, cyclists enjoy an exclusive wide path separated from motor vehicle traffic by a strip of ground, a ditch or high curb. [...]
Some who know me were right. My last post was quite a rant. Still, I meant every word of it, all thought out, but still a rant.
So I stepped out, got on my bike, pedaled to the supermarket and shot these on my way back. I’m ‘calm’ again. See how that works? :-p
Remember all those nice, sunny pictures of normal people in normal clothes on normal bikes on this website? Especially those from last weekend? Yeah? Keep ‘m close, for reference, ’cause it will be long before you’ll see those again. Well…the sunny part, that is.
Today the fall finally got to wash away any hopes for [...]
This video has been around for quite some time now, but there are probably a few people out there that haven’t seen it yet. It’s a cycling campaign commercial from London, and a pretty effective one.
That’s all I’m going to say about it.
All good things come to an end, even Cyclemania’s cycling vacation in the Netherlands. We just had a last drink/toast at Cafe ‘t Smalle, after enjoying a beautiful day, zigzagging our way to Workcycles to have their Dutch bikes boxed up for the flight back to Ottawa.
See a few of today’s highlights in the slideshow:
It [...]
Amsterdamize reader/faithful Alan ventured into the realm of medicine & cycling and found this Guardian article by Jonathan Sale, called ‘Two Wheels‘, dealing with his physical misgivings on a bicycle. In short: it will enlighten you about the best and most healthy posture for cycling. Some excerpts:
Two Wheels
“If God wanted us to ride bicycles, babies [...]
The only sound way to get yourself to any part(y) in this town is…wait for it…by bicycle (doh!). More so, because you just hook up with other fine people, like I did last night, on my way to a housewarming party.
Mutually acquainted with the party’s host, I rode with BicycleMark…yes, HE’S the original cycling [...]
In the Netherlands the car remains by far the most popular means of transportation to go to work. Last year, three out of the five trips were by car.
This share has been constant for many years. This is evident from statistics published by the Central Bureau of Statistics today.
Cycling to work over short distances remains [...]
The pouring rain this morning sure got us fooled. By ‘us’ I mean, Helen & Les (read about how they experienced the first day of cycling) and I. Not that a little bit of rain could really spoil anything, but it wasn’t looking very promising. Besides that, I felt like waking up from a coma [...]
Another (beautiful) day, another “time to stop and shoot up with the mobile phone before continuing on my ride to where I have to go” moment. In this case, 2 moments actually, one at the draw bridge, waiting for a ship to pass and a second moment, stopping on the bridge that crosses the Prinsengracht [...]
Before joining a small company reunion, I stood at the curb and flipped out my HD video camera…to shoot some photos, as it was about time for new ones.
As it was around 6 P.M. (the start of rush hour) you will see cyclists all over the place, very much more so than cars, buses [...]
From Tony Bullard comes a great post on one of the many reasons I cycle. He’s inspired me to create a new category on Amsterdamize soon…’This Is Also Why I Cycle’.
“The combination of this article and this picture:
(click for larger, readable version)
really makes me think.
This morning I was driving to work in the pouring rain. [...]
…you ride home with friends and turn up the music. Yup, pretty Amsterdamize’d.
I know I show you a lot of visual representations of cycling in Amsterdam, but still, I’d like to share a great promotional video, which doesn’t need further comments or deliberations.
Scroll through all episodes (produced by Ethan Films) in the video player’s menu after you finish watching or go here.
I wrote an introduction to this topic a while back. Now that I’ve established sort of a blog framework, highlighting the essence and cherries of cycling in Amsterdam (and the Netherlands), I’d like to actually act on what I promised: giving the out-of-towners a few handy (and probably life/face saving) tips before they hop on [...]
We already knew this, but hey, let’s keep science right smack in the middle of the ‘discussion’ and spread the word, ok? And prepare for personal and emotional counter stories…:-p.
Science Daily (Sep. 7, 2008) — It seems paradoxical but the more people ride bicycles on our city streets, the less likely they are to be [...]
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 [...]
This blog and this ‘cycling phenomenon’ are so getting out of hand…good! :-p
I really like how the article was setup and Rebecca clearly ‘gets it’. Now let’s hope readers will too.
(Thanks again, Alan, for giving me the headsup)
The bicycle has become the ultimate fashion accessory, but it was chic way before Agyness Dean started riding
Rebecca [...]
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