{"id":4500,"date":"2009-12-09T10:42:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T10:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecoworldly.com\/?p=4340"},"modified":"2009-12-09T10:42:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T10:42:37","slug":"1-amsterdam-the-netherlands-great-bicycle-city-photo-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/1-amsterdam-the-netherlands-great-bicycle-city-photo-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"#1 Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Great Bicycle City Photo Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n Amsterdam may not have as high a percentage of bicycle commuters as its Dutch neighbor to the north, Groningen<\/strong><\/a>, or as much bike-crazy counter-culture as Portland (Oregon)<\/strong><\/a>, or the largest bicycle sharing program in the world like in Paris<\/strong><\/a>, or naked bicycle rides like in Barcelona<\/strong><\/a> and Portland<\/strong><\/a>, but compared to these and other world cities I think it is pretty well established now that it and Copenhagen<\/strong><\/a> are in a tight competition for the top position. Amsterdam tops this list because of the great photos to follow.<\/p>\n [social_buttons]<\/p>\n The photos here show love and kisses<\/strong> on bikes, tons of bike parking, creative family bikes<\/strong>, flower bikes, and various cargo bikes, among other things.<\/p>\n Everyone rides a bike in the Netherlands, even Santa Clause<\/strong> (or Sinterklaas<\/strong>). Riding a bike doesn’t take away from women’s fashion at all either, but adds to it here. Biking is a part of normal life — perhaps that is why the Dutch are so calm.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The pages to follow cover:<\/p>\n Page #2 Tons of Bike Parking in Amsterdam<\/a> The final top ten list of great bicycle city photo tours is:<\/p>\n #1 Amsterdam, (the Netherlands) Image Credit 1: Baptiste Pons via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Image Credit 1: boskizzi via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Image Credit 1: korniliakoukoutsi via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Image Credit 1: Photochiel via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license <\/p>\n A common incovenience in the Netherlands, but it normally doesn’t rain hard or for too long and the weather is mild most of the year, so it isn’t actually as bad as it sounds and can even have a somewhat romantic feeling to it.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Image Credit 1: [chris] [nof] [neur] via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Image Credit 1: Ellywa via Wikimedia Commons<\/a> under a Creative Commons license <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Image Credit 1: FaceMePLS via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license <\/p>\nTopping yet another bicycle list, Amsterdam is #1 here because of the great bicycle photos to follow along with the fact that 40% of traffic is bicycle traffic in Amsterdam<\/a> and the city is full of bicycle facilities, including a 10,000-bicycle parking garage at its train station.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nAs the capital and largest city in the Netherlands, a major global city, and a major transportation hub, Amsterdam is the most well-known bicycle city in the Netherlands. But it is really a representation of the country as a whole<\/strong> — the country is filled with wide, colored bike lanes<\/strong> (I think it is a requirement in every municipality and you even see them in the countryside), bike garages and bridges<\/strong><\/a>, bicycle short-cuts, and very high percentages of trips being made by bicycle in cities large and small. As the capital of the Netherlands, Amsterdam represents its country well.<\/p>\n“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.” ~John F. Kennedy<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n
“Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.” ~H.G. Wells<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nPage #3 Bicycle? (known as a Penny-Farthing, High Wheeler or Ordinary Bicycle)<\/a>
\nPage #4 Tons of Bike Minivans and Family Bikes<\/a>
\nPage #5 Bikes, Rain, and Canals<\/a>
\nPage #6 Bike Taxis<\/a>
\nPage #7 Women’s Fashion and Bikes<\/a>
\nPage #8 Creative Bikes and Flowers<\/a>
\nPage #9 Interesting Cargo Bikes<\/a>
\nPage #10 Love & Kisses & Bikes<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n<\/a>#2 Beijing (China)<\/a>
\n#3 Portland, Oregon (USA)<\/a>
\n#4 Copenhagen (Denmark)<\/a>
\n#5 Paris (France)<\/a>
\n#6 Groningen (the Netherlands)<\/a>
\n#7 Berlin (Germany)<\/a>
\n#8 Barcelona (Spain)<\/a>
\n#9 Bogota (Columbia)<\/a>
\n#10 Basel (Switzerland)<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nImage Credit 2: Baptiste Pons via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 3: * mario * via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 4: Vitorio Benedetti via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 5: PjotrP via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 6: aloxe via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 7: ansik via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 8: Zachary Shahan
\nImage Credit 9: Zachary Shahan
\nImage Credit 10: mandiberg via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 11: joto25 via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 12: dibaer via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 13: FaceMePLS via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 14: joiseyshowaa via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license<\/em><\/p>\nTons of Bikes — have to remember exactly where you parked yours<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Transportation requirements in Amsterdam (and the Netherlands, in general): an old bike with a bell and a strong lock<\/strong><\/h3>\n
“Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?” ~Flann O’Brien<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n
This one below has two strong locks on it.<\/h3>\n
Hanging bicycles — must be a Dutch thing, have pictures of this in Groningen<\/a> too<\/strong><\/h3>\n
“Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live.” ~Mark Twain<\/a>, “Taming the Bicycle”<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nImage Credit 2: aloxe via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 3: Daniel Sparing via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 4: aloxe via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 5: edans via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 6: redjar via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 7: redjar via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 8: trec_lit via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 9: aloxe via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 10: Kevin Burkett via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 11: my big blue gorilla via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 12: country_boy_shane via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 13: trec_lit via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 14: cocoate.com via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 15: isabel bloedwater via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license<\/em><\/p>\nBicycle? (known as a Penny-Farthing, High Wheeler or Ordinary Bicycle)<\/strong><\/h3>\n
“Life is like riding a bicycle – in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ~Albert Einstein<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nImage Credit 2: korniliakoukoutsi via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license<\/em><\/p>\nBike Minivans — for kids, dogs, toys, groceries, and even grown men!<\/strong><\/h3>\n
with seatbelts…<\/h3>\n
with a baby seat…<\/h3>\n
with a grown man…<\/h3>\n
“The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man’s metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well.” ~Ivan Illich<\/a>, Energy and Equity<\/em>, 1974<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Other Family Bikes<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Great family bike photos in the Copenhagen<\/strong><\/a>, Groningen<\/strong><\/a> and Portland<\/strong><\/a> bike photo tours as well (direct links to the relevant pages). And some fun kids on bikes photos in Paris<\/strong><\/a>.<\/h3>\n
Notice the bike taxi in the background in the photo below — more of those on page 6<\/a> and a ‘love cab’ on page 10<\/a>.<\/h3>\n
\nImage Credit 2: joefutrelle via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 3: cleverchimp via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 4: mandiberg via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 5: cleverchimp via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 6: mandiberg via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 7: cleverchimp via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 8: cleverchimp via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 9: cleverchimp via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 10: mandiberg via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 11: cleverchimp via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 12: aloxe via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 13: Salim Virji via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 14: Salim Virji via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 15: Salim Virji via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 16: cleverchimp via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 17: Salim Virji via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 18: redjar via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license<\/p>\nBikin’ in the Rain<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Bikes and Canals<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nImage Credit 2: BitBoy via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 3: joiseyshowaa via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 4: liber via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license<\/p>\nBike Taxis<\/strong><\/h3>\n
See the great Love Cab on page 10<\/a>, too.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Great bike taxis in Berlin<\/strong><\/a>, Barcelona<\/strong><\/a> and Paris<\/strong><\/a> as well.<\/h3>\n
\nImage Credit 2: FaceMePLS via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license<\/em><\/p>\nWomen’s Fashion & Bikes<\/strong><\/h3>\n
“[T]he bicycle will accomplish more for women’s sensible dress than all the reform movements that have ever been waged.” ~Author Unknown, from Demerarest’s Family Magazine, 1895<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n
Great bicycle fashion show<\/a> in the Portland photo tour!<\/strong><\/h3>\n
“It is curious that with the advent of the automobile and the airplane, the bicycle is still with us. Perhaps people like the world they can see from a bike, or the air they breathe when they’re out on a bike. Or they like the bicycle’s simplicity and the precision with which it is made. Or because they like the feeling of being able to hurtle through air one minute, and saunter through a park the next, without leaving behind clouds of choking exhaust, without leaving behind so much as a footstep.” ~Gurdon S. Leete<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nImage Credit 2: Juan Carlos! via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 3: Mark Rauterkus via Picasa<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 4: tie78reu via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 5: kooklanekookla via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 6: dsearls via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license
\nImage Credit 7: mackarus via flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license<\/em><\/p>\nCreative Bikes & Flowers<\/strong><\/h3>\n