Now all I need is to remember where my bike is?

[kittymaguire]

 

[Joey28]

Thats really interesting and ALOT of bikes! wow!I like how in the center the tires run down it makes a really cool picture.

 

[DigitalDiva]

Grappig! Looks like my train station fiestenstalling.

This was an overwhelming thing for me to experience when I first moved here. All the bikes seemed to look alike to me. Luckily, I installed the clapper on mine.

 

[kelley_french]

Grappig! Looks like my train station fiestenstalling.

This was an overwhelming thing for me to experience when I first moved here. All the bikes seemed to look alike to me. Luckily, I installed the clapper on mine.

Thats funny. i use to live in Germany and at the train station every morning there were tons of bikes. Don't know how they could find their bikes like that. Now I know they must of had something simular to the clapper. LOL

 

[DigitalDiva]

Thats funny. i use to live in Germany and at the train station every morning there were tons of bikes. Don't know how they could find their bikes like that. Now I know they must of had something simular to the clapper. LOL

They grew up with it! It's like us Americans trying to find our car in a multi-story parking lot. We just know.

*sorry to hijack*

 

[JDS]

I got a dumb question...what's a clapper? Is that anything like the 'clap-on, clap off' for your lights?

 

[DigitalDiva]

Yes. That's it. Bikes here have a front and back light. I liken it to pressing the key unlock on your key chain for your car. Since I don't own a car....it's CLAP ON! *clap clap!*

 

[JDS]

So then what happens if half of the bikes have clappers on 'em? It'd be like a Christmas light show.

This is a really cool photo, btw..Don't mean to hijack.

 

[DigitalDiva]

Ah..you see....clapper technology is not available here in the Netherlands. I had to bring it over myself from California. Everyone knows me in town as the 'flashy American'.

 

[noescape]

Frigggg thats a lot of bikes.... Love it!

 

[doenoe]

yeah, pretty common sight here too
Pretty funny to see the one steer in the middle of all the wheels.

 

[DigitalDiva]

That's not a lot of bikes. Trust me. The poster lives in Amsterdam. They could get photos that show five times that amount.

doenoe...the handlebars? (I like how you used 'steer'...cute.) I didn't notice that till you mentioned it. I don't know how many times I've had to untangle my bike from others who have parked inside of the spokes of my wheels!

 

[doenoe]

yeah, handlebars....was thinking stuur, became steer.
Dont have to untangle mine very often, but i do wanna say that i hate the bikes with the handbrakes, freakin cables everywhere.

 

[DigitalDiva]

You would hate my bike then. *big grin* What's the alternative? Foot brakes? I haven't owned a bike like that since I was a kid (and that's been a looooong time). Ah. Het Nederlandse woord voor handlebars is stuur. Dat wist ik niet! Ik leer iets nieuw elke dag!

 

[kittymaguire]

There are a lot of bikes here that you have to peddal backwards to brake. The picture represents about 1/8 of the bikes that are parked outside the railway station and that does not include the 'fietsenstalling' on the other side of Amstel station.