Autumn has begun. In many countries, this means the end of the cycling season, with bicycles put into storage until spring. Not so in the Netherlands. To underline that, I am declaring this October Rides Month. This year’s October has …| BICYCLE DUTCH
On the last day of August the reconstruction of Utrecht’s Amsterdamsestraatweg was completed. With the final layer of red asphalt applied to the cycle tracks, the municipality closed a project that…| BICYCLE DUTCH
About four months ago I filmed a ride straight through Utrecht during the evening rush hour. I knew I wouldn’t have much time later in the year, so I wanted to prepare some material in advance. I s…| BICYCLE DUTCH
Recently, I returned to a bridge I first visited in November 2012. At that time, the concrete cycle bridge over the Auke Vleerstraat in Enschede was just a year old. This time, it was approaching i…| BICYCLE DUTCH
Well over twelve years ago, in November 2012, I visited the F35 continuous-cycle route under construction between Hengelo and Enschede in the province of Overijssel. At the time, only about 3 kilometres of the route had been completed. Over the …| BICYCLE DUTCH
Last February I showed you what cycling through Vondelpark looks like in winter. Several people commented on that video and the winter aspect of the video. One person remarked how quiet it seemed, …| BICYCLE DUTCH
Utrecht is planning a new high-quality cycling route, known as the Fietsroute om de Noord—literally the “Cycle Route around the North”. This new corridor is intended to relieve pressure on the city…| BICYCLE DUTCH
Getting home from the Velo-city conference in Gdańsk (see my previous post) turned out to be more difficult than I had hoped. It became an unexpectedly multi-modal trip, involving my own two feet, …| BICYCLE DUTCH
Last week, the Velo-city conference took place in Gdańsk, Poland, from 10 to 13 June 2025. Promoted as the “annual world cycling summit”, that’s exactly what it turned out to be. Velo-city is where…| BICYCLE DUTCH
Connecting and Staying: “The cycle bridge across the Waterlandseweg (N305) welcomes road users to Almere, enriches the network of cycle paths, links two distinct landscape structures, and draws attention to two nearby landmarks. The weathering steel bridge is a unique …| BICYCLE DUTCH