Everywhere it’s a place to catch up with friends or do business on a mobile phone. To be honest it seems that the first thing to identify you as a tourist on a bike might well be riding with two hands on the handlebars.
It’s also a way to transport things around. I saw more cargo bikes in one weekend than I’ve ever seen in my life, all being used for everyday tasks like nipping to the supermarket or less common errands like the one I saw with a flatbed piled high with other bikes. It can also be your way to get to a hockey match with your kit and stick balanced on the bike.
More commonly your bike is a way of taking other people along with you. This might be a family trip:
It might be just taking your toddler home from the park (after they’ve obviously been learning to ride themselves):
Or more likely the ubiquitous carrying your friend or girlfriend along on the pannier racks:
If none of that is quite where you’re at then there is another option. You could carry along a group of your friends and get drunk as your tour the streets of Amsterdam on a Beerbike (with a designated tour-guide driver).
Whichever way you do it, riding a bike in Amsterdam is a social event, and not a lonely silent slog through the traffic.
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