This time I went a bit further south first, and then looped up through it. From Amsterdam that ends up being in the 75-100KM range, depending on my exact routing. So each year around now I try and make a ride down there. But it’s also surrounded by many other tulips fields that have nothing to do with the gardens.Īnd as pretty as the gardens are, the characteristic tulip fields you’re thinking of are outside of the Keukenhof walls. That’s where the massive Keukenhof gardens are that attract millions of people each year during their short 7-week window. However, when most people envision the giant tulip fields of the Netherlands, they’re heavily centered around a town about 20-30KM from Amsterdam. It’s very much true that there are tulips everywhere in the Netherlands this time of year. Everything else about it was mostly non-awesome, but hey – what’d you expect when buying an indoor bike at a restaurant supply store? To be fair, the ride feel was not as horrendous as I expected. I gave it a few seconds of pedaling, along with toying with the resistance. Notably, exercise equipment, including this price winning pedaling thing: Oddly, this restaurant supply store also sells other office-supply-ish sort of stuff. It’s the same chain we used to shop at in Paris with our bakeries there ( for Friday night date night), except this time we’re not buying 500 eggs at a time. We have access to that via our business license. After which we hit up the big restaurant supply store for a few oddities. Later that afternoon we met up just outside of town slightly with some DCR Readers coming from Germany, which had offered to bring us some American grocery goodies not available in the Netherlands (thank you!!!). Plus, he fixed a bunch of little things that we’ve gotten used to, but friends riding the cargo bikes might not appreciate. Which, frankly isn’t any different than the winter season in terms of day-to-day mileage– except sometimes we’ll do much longer day-trips on them (like 50-70km rides out to the beaches and back). And the cost of bike mechanic labor is so inexpensive in the Netherlands, that it just makes sense for someone else to do it both more efficiently and more properly.Īnyways, he did a slew of tasks on both bikes, getting them ready for the summer season. While none of these tasks are tremendously difficult, they all fall in the ‘solid pain in the butt’ realm in that they’re very different than normal road-bike tasks I’d do myself. He’d come and tidy up both cargo bikes (again, we have no car, this is our minivan for a family of five + dog).
So, I scheduled with him to come Friday to sort out all the outstanding general maintenance items that I’d been deferring for a few weeks… months…long time. All for very reasonable prices (roughly the same as any bike shop here). Instead, a DCR Reader (thanks!) recommended a local dude who pedals his own cargo bike to come and fix your cargo bike.
Thus, the previously planned repairs we had got delayed. Unfortunately, when said bike shop was only able to make the most urgent of repairs the next day due to a large workload. 1) On-site Cargo Bike FixerĪs you may remember from last week, we left off with me pushing a cargo bike a few kilometers with another cargo bike splayed atop it (in the middle of the night), to get some repairs. Plus, tons of products in the hopper for upcoming releases or announcements to get through, so the backlog is starting to grow a wee bit.
Despite being a busy holiday weekend around these parts, we packed in quite a bit of sports tech and sportiness, with thankfully sunny weather to help keep sanity in check.
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