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 [...]
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 [...]
I’ve mentioned a few times that bicycle theft is quite a problem in the Netherlands, certainly in Amsterdam. The Dutch c.q. Amsterdammers (young and old) have grown accustomed to this pesky ‘little’ problem that has steadily planted itself in the Dutch cyclists’ conscience & social fabric over the last, say, 50 years:
Using beater bikes for [...]
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 [...]
Similar to the distorted notion that cycling and its extensive (read: smart) infrastructure are exclusive to Amsterdam (au contraire, it’s even better outside the capital), I’m equally aware that lots of visitors take away the impression that the Dutch only ride on so-called ‘beaters’ (I acknowledge I may have contributed to that notion just a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Dutch Royal House of Orange. Not a subject I thought I’d let myself post about. But, as I want to highlight ALL aspects of cycling in these lowlands, I might as well include that too. If only to emphasize that you can’t speak of ‘a bicycle culture‘ here, as everyone rides and it’s not [...]
The Netherlands
Population: 16,5 million
Bikes: 18 million
New bikes sold a year: 1.35 million
Bikes stolen a year: between 1.2 and 1.4 million
But the number of bikes in the Netherlands has been at that level, thus stable for years, so what explains this gap? According to the chairman of the Dutch Bicycle Union it boils down to this:
broken [...]
I just have to post these vintage photos. The first one, a color(!) photo from 1953, depicting a group of cycling boy scouts pausing at a windmill, presumably reviewing the next stage of their trip. The second is from the 1930’s, part of the Zylstra family album, capturing two family members riding side by side, [...]
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