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...

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...

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...

This is a photo essay of bicycles, cyclists and bike passengers shot in an Amsterdam square by an American non-cyclist. To be specific its 82 pictures of bicycles taken during 73 minutes. He knows precious little about bikes, cycling or the culture he’s visiting (nor does he seem to care) and that...