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| City cycling news & opinions from WorkCycles in Amsterdam |
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Now for Something Completely Different: Les Trois Ballons Cyclosportive
 This ugly old road bike with full fenders makes long, wet days in the saddle infinitely more fun. All those hours on the bike though are just to build basic fitness, essentially building the ability to train and recover because actually I’ve never been able to compete at longer distance events, nor can I climb [...]
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Overhaul time: Why is My Bike Soooo Sloooow?
 My bike in the spring with the sludgy Hebie Chainglider still installed. I’m very happy to have a real, silent, frictionless Dutch chain case on my bike again. Still, I couldn’t believe that either the Chainglider or the filthy (but almost new) chain were really causing so much friction. Spinning the crank backwards the friction [...]
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Damn Near Lost My Fr8 Bike
 Reenactment of the scene of the crime that could have but didn’t happen… except that P1 is happy in this photo instead of P2 going full-on tantrum boneless. To cut to the chase I allllmost lost our beloved Workcycles Fr8 bike. In most every other alternate universe it would have been stolen. Monday morning I [...]
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Racing Bikes at Workcycles? Really?!
 The Workcycles crew, plus and minus some at the Amsterdam Velodrome. Is it still there Johan? Yeah really, seriously. A point I’ve been repeatedly hammering home over the years is that, in typical Dutch style, we just dig cycling in all it’s many flavors. Just because one gets around by bicycle doesn’t mean they can’t [...]
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Amsterdam’s First Holiday Sale… @Workcycles!
 We always joke about how the Christmas sales and decorations and all that stuff come earlier every year. But now that I think about it I’ve been hearing this since my childhood so it can’t really be true. Even if the commercial exploitation of the holidays have been beginning just two days earlier each year [...]
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Bikes on Dikes
 The wife and kids are back from their hot and lazy summer in Japan so we’ve been working double time the last couple weeks to get some proper Dutch summer family activities it. And we’ve been thankfully lucky enough to (finally!) have good weather too. Our favorite weekend activity is, as I’ve previously written about, [...]
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My Wicked New ANT “Road Bike”
 In and of itself me getting a new bike shouldn’t be all that interesting to you. This particular story though has connections that make it worth telling. There’s the story of why Mike Flanigan of ANT built me a bike. There’s the story of how the plan for a family touring bike became a road/time-trial [...]
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Sleeping on the Bike
 There’s something about the rhythmic motion and sounds of cycling that lulls kids to sleep. My kids doze off in all manner of situations, some convenient and some rather unhandy. They’re obviously going to sleep on the way home in the evening from a long day out but climbing one handed several kilometers out of [...]
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Bikes, Trains, Planes and Automobiles
 Bike transport is a constant challenge at Workcycles. People from all over the world mail, call, skype, tweet, facebook, flickr and visit to buy our special bikes but unless they live in the Netherlands actually getting that bike to them can be expensive. Customers are sometimes incredulous at what it costs to ship a utility [...]
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Where’s Cargo?
 My friend and former colleague Alex in Vancouver sent this picture of a Workcycles Cargobike buried under a tasteless display of kickballs in a Whole Foods organic grocery store. Wouldn’t it be better to just ride it, or maybe loan/rent it to customers? Perhaps I’ll get flamed for my insensitivity toward the nation of Canadia [...]
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henry in a'dam posted a photo:
Bakfiets ride after P2's super fun picnic birthday party in the Westerpark. The bakfiets carried all the food, drink, cooler, water and BBQ for 30 people. Then it served as our serving table, and then it carried the remains and three kids home.
www.workcycles.com
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henry in a'dam posted a photo:
Bakfiets ride after P2's super fun picnic birthday party in the Westerpark. The bakfiets carried all the food, drink, cooler, water and BBQ for 30 people. Then it served as our serving table, and then it carried the remains and three kids home.
www.workcycles.com
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henry in a'dam posted a photo:
Bakfiets ride after P2's super fun picnic birthday party in the Westerpark. The bakfiets carried all the food, drink, cooler, water and BBQ for 30 people. Then it served as our serving table, and then it carried the remains and three kids home.
www.workcycles.com
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henry in a'dam posted a photo:
Bakfiets ride after P2's super fun picnic birthday party in the Westerpark. The bakfiets carried all the food, drink, cooler, water and BBQ for 30 people. Then it served as our serving table, and then it carried the remains and three kids home.
www.workcycles.com
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Workcycles Fr8 for Japan 1
henry in a'dam posted a photo:
This Workcycles Fr8 is almost ready to be packed up and shipped to it's owner in Japan. Note the laser cut nameplate in the left side rear triangle.
The bike is standard RAL 7022 matte grey with some RAL 5012 blue parts.
www.workcycles.com
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Workcycles Fr8 for Japan 2
henry in a'dam posted a photo:
This Workcycles Fr8 is almost ready to be packed up and shipped to it's owner in Japan. Note the laser cut nameplate in the left side rear triangle.
The bike is standard RAL 7022 matte grey with some RAL 5012 blue parts.
www.workcycles.com
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henry in a'dam posted a photo:
The modifications to the frame and rear carrier for Kim's very small Cargobike are complete. It's been shortened by 15cm. Now everything goes to the powdercoater to be painted ivory white.
www.workcycles.com
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henry in a'dam posted a photo:
The modifications to the frame and rear carrier for Kim's very small Cargobike are complete. It's been shortened by 15cm. Now everything goes to the powdercoater to be painted ivory white.
www.workcycles.com
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henry in a'dam posted a photo:
Ton is modifying this Workcycles Cargobike frame for a very petite customer: 137cm. He's shortened the seat tube by 15cm and will now fabricate new seatstays to put it back together again.
The bike will be built with smaller than normal wheels and fenders, shorter cranks, and well pretty much everything will be different on this bike.
Need a special utility bicycle, or a fleet of them? We can probably make it.
www.workcycles.com
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henry in a'dam posted a photo:
Ton is modifying this Workcycles Cargobike frame for a very petite customer: 137cm. He's shortened the seat tube by 15cm and will now fabricate new seatstays to put it back together again.
The bike will be built with smaller than normal wheels and fenders, shorter cranks, and well pretty much everything will be different on this bike.
Need a special utility bicycle, or a fleet of them? We can probably make it.
www.workcycles.com
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workcycles-cargobike-custom-small 3
henry in a'dam posted a photo:
Ton is modifying this Workcycles Cargobike frame for a very petite customer: 137cm. He's shortened the seat tube by 15cm and will now fabricate new seatstays to put it back together again.
The bike will be built with smaller than normal wheels and fenders, shorter cranks, and well pretty much everything will be different on this bike.
Need a special utility bicycle, or a fleet of them? We can probably make it.
www.workcycles.com
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workcycles-cargobike-custom-small 1
henry in a'dam posted a photo:
Ton is modifying this Workcycles Cargobike frame for a very petite customer: 137cm. He's shortened the seat tube by 15cm and will now fabricate new seatstays to put it back together again.
The bike will be built with smaller than normal wheels and fenders, shorter cranks, and well pretty much everything will be different on this bike.
Need a special utility bicycle, or a fleet of them? We can probably make it.
www.workcycles.com
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henry in a'dam posted a photo:
Henry went cycling through Noord Holland with his little girl for a few hours today. It was chilly but sunny and we had a great time together.
www.bakfiets-en-meer.nl
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henry in a'dam posted a photo:
Henry went cycling through Noord Holland with his little girl for a few hours today. It was chilly but sunny and we had a great time together.
www.bakfiets-en-meer.nl
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henry in a'dam posted a photo:
Henry went cycling through Noord Holland with his little girl for a few hours today. It was chilly but sunny and we had a great time together.
www.bakfiets-en-meer.nl
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henry in a'dam posted a photo:
Henry went cycling through Noord Holland with his little girl for a few hours today. It was chilly but sunny and we had a great time together.
www.bakfiets-en-meer.nl
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henry in a'dam posted a photo:
Henry went cycling through Noord Holland with his little girl for a few hours today. It was chilly but sunny and we had a great time together.
www.bakfiets-en-meer.nl
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henry in a'dam posted a photo:
Henry went cycling through Noord Holland with his little girl for a few hours today. It was chilly but sunny and we had a great time together.
www.bakfiets-en-meer.nl
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ice cream trike old type
henry in a'dam posted a photo:
I built Workcycles first several ice cream bikes on the traditional type chassis. It had a nice, classic look but turned out to be very unhandy in actual use. The freezer was too high making it difficult to scoop the ice cream.
Thus we don't build ice cream trikes like this anymore.
www.workcycles.com
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DVG-Workcycles-Fr8-Crossframe
henry in a'dam posted a photo:
Diederik van Gelder, founder of Bilder & De Clercq market with his new Workcycles Fr8. actually his second one to replace the first one stolen a few months ago.
Bilder & De Clerc, coincidentally visible from our house, is a market with an interesting concept: You buy a sort of kit with ALL of the ingredients needed to cook nice, healthy meals... in exactly the correct amounts. Cool.
www.bilderdeclercq.nl
www.workcycles.com
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