barnacle bike

This is actually one of the last things I saw in Amsterdam. Out at the end of the pier that science center NEMO is built on, I found this incredible derelict bike, covered with rust, seaweed, and barnacles.



Clickenzee to embiggen. It's totally worth it.

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vernacular bikes

It's Bike Sunday here on the Recirculating Cheese channel. It's impossible to not take pictures of bikes in Amsterdam; they're literally everywhere. However, I saw very few American-style bikes - only a handful with dropped handlebars, and maybe one or two mountain bikes. Instead, you see bikes with upright handlbars, cargo racks, lights, fenders, and chain guards. These are bikes for transporting people and stuff, in comfort.



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cargo bikes

These are mostly variations on what they call bakfietsen ("box bikes"), used for transporting cargo and small children.



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abandoned/damaged/vandalized bikes

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other bike

Probably the last bike-related post for a while.

"XXX" is a symbol of Amsterdam, but it's not sexual, even though it shows up on the remarkably phallic bollards at the side of the road. No, it's a symbol of the apostle Andrew, patron saint of fisherman and fish-mongers. According to the tour guide, each cross has been officially decreed to represent one of Andrew's traits: vastberaden (determined), heldhaftig (courageous), and barmhartig (altruistic). Because you asked (or didn't).



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