Amsterdam S&M love bikes
Not visible in photo: the bikes were a men’s and ladies’ pair. From my neighborhood free newspaper “De Echo”.
View ArticleROT OP MET DEZE &*%$#@! FIETS!
unsolicited sticker found on doede's bakfiets Our website dude Doede van der Linden sent me this pic today. Somebody stuck this sticker on his Bakfiets Cargobike today. “Rot op met deze &*%$#@!...
View ArticleAddition to the WorkCycles sticker
IMG_1916, originally uploaded by henry in a’dam. OK, so perhaps somebody disagrees with the sticker: “Tijd voor een goeie fiets” (time for a good bike)… but at least they had the decency to leave the...
View ArticleEddy’s rogue loopfiets strikes again!
“Fietsen worden verwijderd” = “Bicycles will be removed” and is a common sign in Amsterdam since bicycles cover every usable wall, sign pole, lamp post, fence, gate, bridge railing, fence, window (and...
View ArticleWho steals an old bakfiets wheel?
Our web developer Doede sent me a despairing note the other day telling me that the rear wheel of his new, old bakfiets got ripped off. The poor beast looks so sad, like a horse with a broken leg. In...
View ArticleDe Fietshangar (bike hangar)
Several years ago while I was doing a project with design students at Technical University Eindhoven I met Jelle Zijlstra of Zijlstra Industrial Design. He’d designed the “Fietshangar“, a protective...
View ArticleCopenhagen-Amsterdam War in the VogelVrije Fietser
Some Danish guy on a WorkCycles rental bike in Amsterdam, originally uploaded by Amsterdamize. I usually flip through the “VogelVrije Fietser” (literal translation: “Birdfree Cyclist”) in about 30...
View ArticleCargobike (almost) in the Canal
One morning about a week ago I walked outside with the kids on the way to their daycare to discover that our beloved bakfiets had disappeared. A number of Workcycles customer bikes have been stolen...
View ArticleDutch Bike Parking: There’s Never Ever Enough
Somehow it just warms my heart to see thousands of city bikes lined up in endless rows. That requires about as much space as a supermarket or a small office building. Sometimes I wonder how big a...
View ArticleDamn Near Lost My Fr8 Bike
Reenactment of the scene of the crime that could have but didn’t happen… except that P1 is happy in this photo instead of P2 going full-on tantrum boneless. To cut to the chase I allllmost lost our...
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