Bakfiets en meer

• Verbouwing WorkCycles Toekomstige Jordaan Vestiging

  We zijn nu al een paar weken bezig mee met de verbouwing van het nieuwe WorkCycles (transport-) fietsenwinkel en werkplaats op de hoek van de Lijnbaansgracht en de Goudbloemstraat in de Jordaan buurt van Amsterdam. Er is nog veel te doen maar het ziet er ten minst nu wel belovend uit. Alleen maar enkele weken [...] Posted May 09 2008, 06:40 PM by Bakfiets en meer Filed under: Uncategorized, About Henry WorkCycles, Events, amsterdam, transportfiets, moederfiets, stevige stadsfietsen, jordaan, kindervervoer, transportfietsen, bakfietsen, bakfiets, ruzie, workcycles, fietsfabriek

• Koninginnedag (Queen’s Day) Shopping

  The Dutch are a strange folk. They celebrate their national holiday “Queen’s Day” not only by gathering in enormous numbers on the streets to wear orange and drink beer, but also to create what must be the world’s largest garage sale and variety show. For weeks the residents prepare for their Queen’s Day sales; Spaces [...] Posted May 07 2008, 03:11 AM by Bakfiets en meer Filed under: Uncategorized, Practical cycling, Bike Friendly Cities

• Automated bike parking in Tokyo

  A friend sent me a link to a new robotic bike parking system in Tokyo, reminding me of one of my favorite topics: where to put all the bikes when everybody cycles. The Tokyo system is very cool and executed on quite a large scale. It apparently has space for 9400 bikes. Just for reference [...] Posted May 02 2008, 05:01 AM by Bakfiets en meer Filed under: Bike Friendly Cities, fietsmolen, amsterdam, underground, tokyo, fietsflat, bike parking, holland, fietsenstalling, automated

• Old Dutch Bike Photos from Andre Koopmans

  I came across an amazing collection of beautiful photos of classic Dutch bicycles. Included are old bikes, very old bikes and extremely old bikes. There are many sharp images of interesting features and details that have long since disappeared and been largely forgotten such as Fongers steering locks and Simplex suspension forks. Also fun for [...] Posted Apr 03 2008, 02:19 PM by Bakfiets en meer Filed under: Uncategorized

• 1 Square Meter of Nature Bakfiets

  Sometimes we build a special bike, send it off in a hurry without a chance to get photos and then we forget about it. Then sometimes we come across them later in advertising or political campaigns, in stores as props, or just on the street being ridden. This bakfiets has a good story behind it. Under [...] Posted Apr 02 2008, 05:04 PM by Bakfiets en meer Filed under: Uncategorized, Bakfietsen / Cargo trikes, Bicycles & Art / Fiets & Kunst

• Seven Clog Bakfietsen for sale

  Perhaps this one is even better than the coffin bakfiets I posted a couple months ago. Its not just a Dutch clog bakfiets, but actually seven of them… for sale too. Just think of the possibilities. There is one puzzling thing though: The clog trike shown has a canopy with a signboard for “IJSGLACE”, Flemish (similar [...] Posted Apr 02 2008, 04:01 PM by Bakfiets en meer Filed under: Uncategorized

• New Bakfiets Cargobike Extra Long

  The much anticipated WorkCycles/Bakfiets Cargobike Extra Long is finally here! Ironically when Maarten van Andel introduced the original Bakfiets.nl Cargobike dealers and customers told him it was too long, too strange, too un-Dutch. To pacify them he designed the Bakfiets.nl Cargobike Short, even though he felt that the original (Cargobike Long) was the ideal length. [...] Posted Mar 31 2008, 12:53 PM by Bakfiets en meer Filed under: Uncategorized, Transportfiets / Workbike

• WorkCycles Nieuwe Fietswinkel in de Jordaan

  Na vier jaar in onze originele vestiging in de Veemarkt (Zeeburg, Amsterdam Oostelijke Eilanden) heeft WorkCycles echt meer ruimte nodig. Toen ik hier in mijn eentje begon vier jaar geleden had ik nooit kunnen geloven dat we zo snel uit dit pand gingen groeien. We hebben hier bijna iedere centimeter gebruikt: fietsen staan buiten, hangen [...] Posted Mar 29 2008, 12:47 PM by Bakfiets en meer Filed under: Uncategorized, About Henry WorkCycles, WorkCycles dealers

• Een ideale bakfiets voor de familie!

  Als BN’er (Bakfietsverkopende Nederlander, of ten minst legaal bewoner in Nederland) vind ik vele bijzondere dingen in mijn email inbox: o.a. aanbeidingen voor nieuwe software, aanbeiding voor interessante investeringen in de 3e wereld, aanbiedingen voor pillen om mijn mannelijkheid groter/krachtiger/langdurender te maken, en af en toe als ik gelukkig ben ook aanbeidingen voor bijzondere nieuwe [...] Posted Mar 25 2008, 09:30 AM by Bakfiets en meer Filed under: Uncategorized, Bakfietsen / Cargo trikes

• The coolest tall bike I’ve seen yet

  I’ll admit that I don’t usually find the tall-bike scene very interesting and perhaps that statement will have me besieged by an army of black clad squatters armed with padded lances. However this tall bike, dubbed “Skywalker” by Atomic Zombie is not only absurdly tall, its also very thoughtfully designed and and attractively constructed. It [...] Posted Mar 14 2008, 04:56 AM by Bakfiets en meer Filed under: Uncategorized, Bicycles & Art / Fiets & Kunst

• Around the world on a Long John bike

  Robbo Johnson wrote to us recently about his extensive travels on an old Danish Long John transport bike. For 8 years Robbo has been riding this rig which is five meters long and weighs 300kg loaded. It includes not just the loaded LongJohn bicycle but also a huge bike trailer. He’s apparently traveled about 90,000km [...] Posted Feb 19 2008, 05:27 PM by Bakfiets en meer Filed under: Uncategorized, Transportfiets / Workbike

• Power to the Pedal Design Competition

  Design 21, the “Social design network” is organizing “Power to the Pedal” a design competition for accessories or add-ons for existing bicycles to make them more practical, handy and safer for primary transport. In Design 21’s own words: This competition calls for a biking accessory or add-on for existing bikes that would improve the bicycling experience [...] Posted Feb 18 2008, 04:43 PM by Bakfiets en meer Filed under: Uncategorized, Practical cycling, Events

• Het Blijefietsenplan (the happy bike program)

  This site called “Het blijefietsenplan” plays on an inside joke in Dutch. The Dutch love “plans”, especially with regard to bicycles. These “plans” are always something serious: They can be political or have something to do with reducing your taxes. Back in the idealistic 60’s a highly progressive Amsterdam politician and bicycle promoter by the name [...] Posted Feb 08 2008, 10:55 AM by Bakfiets en meer Filed under: Uncategorized

• Simplex Bicycles in Indonesia

  I can’t read Indonesian so I can only hypothesize about this site about pre-WWII Simplex bicycles in Indonesia. Simplex was an Amsterdam bike maker that made some of the best bikes of this period. That’s significant considering that the Dutch bikes of this era were probably the best city bicycles ever built. Seventy years later [...] Posted Feb 07 2008, 06:12 PM by Bakfiets en meer Filed under: Uncategorized, Transportfiets / Workbike

• Are the Dutch replacing their bikes with cars?

  North American cyclists are busy envying the Dutch love and use of bicycles for transportation but is everything so rosy in the Netherlands? Jonathan Maus of Bike Portland recently posted an piece about Loek Hesemans, the Senior Policy Officer at the Netherlands’ Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. Hesemans recently visited Portland, OR and Vancouver, [...] Posted Jan 30 2008, 06:05 AM by Bakfiets en meer Filed under: Uncategorized, Practical cycling